I have a windows notepad file for the same reason. F5 prints the date/time stamp.
Thank you for this shortcut!
Keeping a plaintext “did” file
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#12join the (very recent) crowd: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17532094
Hm. Dynalist seems promising. WorkFlowy has been incredible for a certain type of brainstorming but there seems to be tons of room for new features.
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#13Emacs provides calendar and diary out of box
M-x calendar then `i d` to create entry for selected date
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#14I have a windows notepad file for the same reason. F5 prints the date/time stamp.
or you can just start the file with:
.LOG
one of the few extra features notepad have =)
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#15Isn't this effectively what code commits are for? If you've done something worth noting, it should probably be in a commit anyway.
Yeah commits are great for logging code changes.
I started using the did file while learning a new language, don’t remember which. I’d have 15 tabs open with different docs and tutorials but very very little actual code written or way to mark where I was. I settled on a single text file and It was super helpful to just look back a week and notice there was some measurable progress.
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#17Re: Keeping a plaintext “did” file
#18If the file does not exist, then vim +'normal Go' +'r!date' ~/did.txt creates a file with the first two lines being blank.
hm, good thinking, I guess I should run `touch` to create the empty file first.
> hm, good thinking, I guess I should run `touch` to create the empty file first.
vim is perfectly fine if you invoke it with the name of a non-existent file; it will just create it.
Re: Keeping a plaintext “did” file
#19I have a windows notepad file for the same reason. F5 prints the date/time stamp.
or you can just start the file with: .LOG one of the few extra features notepad have =)
Wow! I truly wonder whether that's in there to scratch one Windows engineer's personal itch some day back in 1998 or something ;-)
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#20Great idea. Welcome to the .txt family. A while ago I published Journal.TXT - a single-text file format for journals and the human multi-document format for writers. See https://journaltxt.github.io
PS: I also started Awesome .TXT - A collection of awesome .TXT tools, formats, services, tips & tricks and more. See https://github.com/officetxt/awesome-txt