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My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
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Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#282Notepad++ user here. I use multiple pads and create new notes. The autosave feature is great that you don’t have to sAve a note to persist after a restart.
Once a week I either save and file these tabs or just discard them. It’s like a great scratchpad.
I also try not to hoard on too much data, I discard a lot with this in mind
Ps in notepad++ ctl+alt+up/down arrows move a line up and down. I use this a lot to rank lists and mark priority by moving it to the top
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#283interestingly, after thinking about this all day, I realized it exactly what the app Noteplan does nice: connects a daily todo.txt file with a calendar. very helpful.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#284I use a single text file, have done this for decades. I dump everything into it and don't worry too much about structure, it's an incredible resource for "remembering" minutia, things like "what was that server that i thought might have had some issues last August?" Just a quick control-S and I'm there. My current 7+ year old notes file has about 100K lines in it right now. I can tell you what I was doing last year,…
How do you handle a file like that on mobile? I separate my job journal from my personal journal. Job journal starts on a backed up work drive and I don't care to have mobile access to it. I must have access to my personal journal at work, or while I'm out and about and mobile is the only way.
this might be archaic but… i use draft mails for that. for years and all my todo lists (about six), works really well for me.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#285I use the Notes app on my phone to do non work-related stuff in my everyday life.
I have everything on there - buying groceries, washing clothes, getting stuff dry cleaned, washing the car. Whatever.
As soon as I get a spare moment, I scan the list (about 20 items) and do a little travelling salesman solution - what can I knock off this list in about 2 hours, and what’s the most efficient route to drive to get all this done?
Usually I manage to knock off a massive chunk of the list which feels great and super productive. I’ve learnt that it feels good to write things on the list so that shortly afterwards I can erase them again.
If you address the items one by one, then you waste a lot of time. The key is run everything asynchronously (put the clothes on wash now, so that I can dry them later. Buy the soap for the car now, but we’ll wash it after we drop off the dry cleaning on the way back from the shop)
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#286I don't use a single text file, but I do keep notes with text files. I created a little bash script to help me do that.
I type 'note' in the terminal and it opens up a new file at ~/notes/$year/$month/$day/note.md in vim in insert mode with a timestamp already inserted for me.
https://github.com/dcchambers/note-keeper
I do kind of like the idea of having a single file for searchability, but I do already have powerful search of my `notes` directory with grep.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#287I use the Notes app on my phone to do non work-related stuff in my everyday life. I have everything on there - buying groceries, washing clothes, getting stuff dry cleaned, washing the car. Whatever. As soon as I get a spare moment, I scan the list (about 20 items) and do a little travelling salesman solution - what can I knock off this list in about 2 hours, and what’s the most efficient route to drive to get all th…
Hey, I hope you figure a way to back up this stuff, since phones are prone to be lost or stolen (or is it backed up automatically by Google or Apple?)
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you version control it using Fossil, and it's in markdown, you can access it directly from the repo website.
But you can't make changes to it online.
Depends. You're right if you use a conventional version control approach where you write on your local machine and then push to the server. But that's not the only way to use Fossil to store your notes.
If you're using the wiki (using one or more wiki pages) everything is entered into the browser whether online or using the built-in server running locally. Other options are to create an issue for each note or create a new forum thread for each note. The nice thing about these options is that you get the search and querying power of an sqlite database applied to your notes for free.
Disclaimer: I haven't used this approach because I don't use mobile devices for note taking. Just pointing out that it is possible.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#289Yup... seriously... F* those insanely stupid productivity apps out there. Me too use a single text file and sublime. I use the same for note-taking too. Works amazingly well. Not that I haven't tried other dedicated apps. But, nothing comes close to the simplicity and flexibility of a single text file. To format it a bit better, I generally write in markdown format. Works best!
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#290As a die hard Emacser, I’ve always been drawn to the idea of plain text productivity. What keeps me using apps like Todoist and Calendar.app is I am unaware of a way to have location-based reminders, collaborative to-do lists, and shared calendars. Is anyone doing this with plain text?