Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

Post by tapan_k » Wed, Oct 26, 2016, 5:12 PM UTC

noir_lord wrote: post #157

gcr wrote: post #90

Honestly, I just keep everything in a journal. I have a folder called "daypages" in my dropbox. Each day in my life becomes a file in this folder. Today's is "daypages/2016-10-26.org" That's about it. I don't really organize by project much. Each day typically covers the tasks that I intend to get done that day, along with places I've been / friends I've met. The occasional tearful journal entry punctuates the otherw…

I do something similar but I gave up using org-mode (mostly because that was all I was using emacs for and I spent more time configuring the thing 'just so' than I did actually using it. Now I just keep everything in plain text and aliased it to 'tj' (todays journal). alias tj="touch ~/Dropbox/journal/$(date +%d-%m-%Y).org && code ~/Dropbox/journal/$(date +%d-%m-%Y).org" Effortless backups as well (and as a side bene…

Post by BeetleB » Wed, Oct 26, 2016, 5:27 PM UTC

crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #200

BeetleB wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going through the phase now of simplifying my life and getting rid of stuff. Very difficult. I'm by nature a very nostalgic person. Hard to part with items that brought me so much joy. However, I came to the realization: Those items, while they gave me joy in the past, are literally preventing new experiences, and new sources of joy. Need to make room for the future, and the only way is to throw stuff away.

This is literally what I'm doing today with the guidance of Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying."

Post by rabboRubble » Wed, Oct 26, 2016, 5:53 PM UTC

Post by oftenwrong » Wed, Oct 26, 2016, 5:58 PM UTC

schmidtc wrote: post #170

gcr wrote: post #90

Honestly, I just keep everything in a journal. I have a folder called "daypages" in my dropbox. Each day in my life becomes a file in this folder. Today's is "daypages/2016-10-26.org" That's about it. I don't really organize by project much. Each day typically covers the tasks that I intend to get done that day, along with places I've been / friends I've met. The occasional tearful journal entry punctuates the otherw…

> "it's only a `git grep` away" Off topic, but how did I not know this was thing? You never know what you're gonna learn reading hn comments.

Post by Bartweiss » Wed, Oct 26, 2016, 7:03 PM UTC

threepipeproblm wrote: post #162

Bartweiss wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's funny - I had the same insight and decided on the opposite solution. Many of bookmarks are an 'aging' zone, where content sits around until I'm bored and interested in reading it, or decide it no longer looks appealing and delete it. Things like speculative HN articles go there, and 90% of them become irrelevant while the other 10% become more appealing. I also have a reference folder for bookmarks, which I trea…

Yes, interesting how the same insight can lead to different approaches. I used to work with a guy whose desktop was a complete mess and he would never try to organize the chaos. He had high screen res and it would take him a minute or two to find something on his desktop but he could do it. Then when it got full he would take the entire thing and paste it into a new top-level folder, called "old desktops". Of course…