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Ask HN: The best app to keep a work diary

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Hi there. Is there an app that let you keep a work diary? All good diary apps seems to be limited to either mobile, or desktop. Best calendar web app seems to be all about organizing rather than keeping notes. Some ideas?

I am looking for app possibly with build in calendar that will let me to make quick notes for each day on what I did and how was my day work-wise.

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I recommend DayOne, both available for Mac and iOS. Recently I've begun recording done MITs in Rescuetime, because I don't want to make time for writing a log but do need to jot down 1-2 lines on accomplishments. You could also just use a text file, or Trello. Oh and DayOne has calendar and sync features.

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post #2

I recommend DayOne, both available for Mac and iOS. Recently I've begun recording done MITs in Rescuetime, because I don't want to make time for writing a log but do need to jot down 1-2 lines on accomplishments. You could also just use a text file, or Trello. Oh and DayOne has calendar and sync features.

DayOne integrates with the excellent jrnl project.

https://maebert.github.io/jrnl/

Re: Ask HN: The best app to keep a work diary

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After many years of trying everything, a few conclusions have greatly helped: only PLAIN TEXT, cross platform and date stamp every line item (add to your dotvimrc or dotemacs or js bookmarklet)

mindmappers? - bought and tried them all cloud subscription notetakers - yep pretty much all

Best to have data close at hand - Oh nooos, everything is locked in that proprietary app I bought in the 90's or cloud service I threw 3 yrs in.

After years with orgmode and vimwiki, I went back to Firefox http://tiddlywiki.com/ + vim as editor with https://github.com/docwhat/itsalltext/

if you live in emacs then stay in orgmode or deft.el for speed if vim, vimwiki

rsync is my friend

Re: Ask HN: The best app to keep a work diary

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post #2

I recommend DayOne, both available for Mac and iOS. Recently I've begun recording done MITs in Rescuetime, because I don't want to make time for writing a log but do need to jot down 1-2 lines on accomplishments. You could also just use a text file, or Trello. Oh and DayOne has calendar and sync features.

Windows Laptop here unfortunately - this was first app that looked cool for me, but it is available only on Mac.

Re: Ask HN: The best app to keep a work diary

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After many years of trying everything, a few conclusions have greatly helped: only PLAIN TEXT, cross platform and date stamp every line item (add to your dotvimrc or dotemacs or js bookmarklet) mindmappers? - bought and tried them all cloud subscription notetakers - yep pretty much all Best to have data close at hand - Oh nooos, everything is locked in that proprietary app I bought in the 90's or cloud service I thre…

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