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- a physical notebook (I always carry it)
- nth-priority-ideas.md file (I write down ideas)
- I have an on-and-off relationship with Evernote (as it is easier to sync it with phone and other stuff; though, cannot draw as easily as in my notebook, and not as distraction-free as a single Markdown list)
Most importantly, if I have no time for an idea (the best ideas stuck me when I am busy) I write it down and forget.
vim -c 'r!date' -c 'normal i# ' -c 'normal o' notes.mdHow do I keep track of my creative thoughts? Very easy! I don't have one. :)
I later organise them using mural.co (originally it was called mural.ly) which is a web whiteboard which I find very good for organising different kinds of materials, links, etc.
Nobody else mentioned it which really surprises me but I use Google Keep. Allows you to organise cards, colour code then, pin them and share them across devices. Anyone else use this? I find it's simple and restricted UI reduces distraction; just you and the idea. Also good for check lists, links and reminders.
Note pads and text files are great for getting ideas down, but bad for organising them
If you can’t organise the ideas later, the whole system breaks down and you stop using it
I looked into different SaaS apps etc but they all had some features I didn’t like or were extraneous for me.
I realized the only way to do this was to create my own note taking app with a UI that was optimised for my way of doing things and would contain as few bottlenecks as possible for recording and organising
The result is an app where I can type something out in markdown format, apply tags, and then filter all my notes by tags
I uses local storage because I hate the idea of a login getting in the way of recording the idea
I have a git repo. I wrote about this and other related time management things here: https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/12/03/how-i-manage-my-time/
> I was disorganised until my 30s. I'm in my late 20s and I face a constant struggle in organising myself. Your blog post seems to be a nice window in how I should approach this issue. Thanks!
I use 2Do with a keyboard shortcut for a new task set to Ctrl+Alt+Cmd+T, so I can instantly note anything down and forget about it. That lands into an inbox I can process later. If it's an actionable thing I then categorize and schedule it, but I also have a large 'Maybe' list for unwieldy project ideas (52 items and counting). For random daily or project notes I use a small shell script (and Dock application, via Au…
So whenever I make a note, it goes to ~/notes/$date-$1.txt which I then come back to later either manually or with "enote" (which opens emacs for the latest note matching $1 via ls -t). Having the name really helps me see visually what I'm looking for, roughly remember (like any title) what important enough things happened in the last while, and so on.
As for daily notes/TODO, I've long given up on a single TODO.txt, but do have several years of weekly status entries in the "Google snippets" form of "this week, next week". For 2018, I finally gave in and switched to Markdown rather than my own sort of format ("dash means done as planned, X means didn't do it, + means something unplanned happened").
Edit: phone typos.
The whole point is to write the idea down, not so much remembering it (unless you literally have the melody for a hit song or the algorithm for the cure for cancer)