isn't this a classic use-case for emacs org-mode?
having said that I do appreciate that plaintext is lower friction/inertia for sure
Keeping a plaintext “did” file
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Re: Keeping a plaintext “did” file
#102Sharing my utility Jot: https://github.com/mkaz/jot
Jot stores notes in text files organized by date, includes simple searching, templates, and a few other niceties; plus you can add notes via command-line, pipe, or open in your EDITOR (vim)
Re: Keeping a plaintext “did” file
#103http://todotxt.org has a format for a done.txt list, too. Useful before project meetings to get an overview over what you did in the last days. TodoTxtMac creates this for me: https://mjdescy.github.io/TodoTxtMac/ I've been using it together with Dropbox (for access from my phone) for 3 years now.
Interesting, I've been seeing a lot of interest in syncing the file and this seems like a good next project. I never thought to use dropbox to sync, I wonder what the dropbox api does with merge conflicts
Re: Keeping a plaintext “did” file
#104I've got a small A6 notebook for this, computers are great, but there's still work to be done in translating the abstract diagram/flowchart/sketch amalgamation that's in my brain to a digital representation. A picture tells a a thousand words, there's pages where I tried redesigning a scene graph implementation, it'd take hours to transcribe the knowledge that I gleaned from those (roughly drawn) images into words.
Paper rocks. I really like its battery life, negligible boot-up time, customisability, interoperability and extensive unicode support.
The main downsides are poor search, scriptability/automation, and backup support.
Re: Keeping a plaintext “did” file
#105Sharing my utility Jot: https://github.com/mkaz/jot Jot stores notes in text files organized by date, includes simple searching, templates, and a few other niceties; plus you can add notes via command-line, pipe, or open in your EDITOR (vim)
Whoa never heard of Syncthing (open source syncing to replace dropbox). What led you to choose that?
Re: Keeping a plaintext “did” file
#106No need for "normal Go". ex commands like r take addresses. vim +'$r!date' did.txt
oh thats smooth
Re: Keeping a plaintext “did” file
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have used a Google Doc for this, as it has ability to copy in screenshots. However a large project with lots of stuff makes it lag
That's a better idea than in local text editor if you are working in Windows. My machine has a way of deciding to reboot on precisely those days that walk away with something open that I don't want to lose.
Notepad++ might be your friend in this situation. It auto saves the doc (even if you haven’t ‘saved’ it yourself)
Re: Keeping a plaintext “did” file
#108I sort of had a did.txt for 3 years, updated quite often during my working hours (at least once a day, if I were super busy, to dump all my daily activities and notes). It was quite useful for standup meetings and such. It is a pretty gigantic did.txt now, and in 3 years can you guess how many times I needed the info sitting there? Zero... go figure :-(
Re: Keeping a plaintext “did” file
#109Sharing my utility Jot: https://github.com/mkaz/jot Jot stores notes in text files organized by date, includes simple searching, templates, and a few other niceties; plus you can add notes via command-line, pipe, or open in your EDITOR (vim)
Whoa never heard of Syncthing (open source syncing to replace dropbox). What led you to choose that?
I was using Bittorrent Sync for awhile but the product got buggy, renamed, and seems like going through weird times. So looked for an open source alternative and found Syncthing. It works well to keep files in sync between laptop and desktop, its all local - but you give up any cloud storage if all your computers go fubar.
Re: Keeping a plaintext “did” file
#110I would recommend, http://jrnl.sh it's made for the purpose described but in a much better and simpler way (also allows tagging and searching in a simple way).