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This way leads to madness!
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If your project TODO lists are stretching into years, it's time to get a better project management system. I recommend paper.
This is unrealistic. If I didn't accept TODO items older than a year, or even five years, I never would have built my fence, fixed my stairs, set up my home lab, learned iOS development, digitized my family's old photos/videos, or innumerable other things, because for each of those things, I had 10 to 100 more mundane but more time-sensitive/higher-priority things to do. You can manage long-term lists without losing…
It has databases that allow you to create many different views of things, but actually using this capability is one of the most frustrating things ever. No keyboard shortcuts; actions that you'd typically do in Excel don't work here; every table is its own page, even when it doesn't need to be; and so on.
You can also create a plain old table within Notion, but all of the complaints above apply here. Why even have a table object when it's going to just be a gimped database?
It has static web page hosting built in, but so does Confluence and other wikis.
If you try to use Notion off-line, it randomly won't show you changes until you're back online.
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That said, paper is great for worm (write once, read many) type data but is inflexible and really difficult to search through later.
Journaling is a great example.
It is easy and tempting to start with a paper journal. Feels more personal and connected. However, when you want to know how you felt on this day five years ago, or you want to find a pattern to explain moods that don't make sense, you'll spend ages sifting through notebooks. That's assuming that you haven't lost them.
Apps work so much better here.
I started journaling in 2014 but started journaling _daily_ after discovering Daylio in 2021. I use Day One now.
I regret not having used an app for this everyday.
There are so many moments of my life that I lost or don't remember very well because I wanted to "handwrite my journals" despite, often, not having the time to do so. Journaling has helped me understand why I feel things and when and gave me a great first step towards fixing them.
I will say that trying to modify a table in Notion makes me want to throw my Mac into the ocean and go back to paper and briefcases.
Personal notes: A waterproof mini-notepad.
Personal notes I don't care about: Sticky notes.
Movie scripts, math problems, and complex functional diagrams: A full-size sheet of paper taken from the nearest printer.
This comment sent from my Sticky Pad 5.
I love paper, but it's difficult for me to organise the notes properly, I have no search function, screenshots, links, endless canvas, etc. I already own a Remarkable 2 but I really don't like it - it's not much more than an e-ink college block. After almost two years they added the function to draw straight lines, meanwhile I still can't search in handwritten notes - not even after converting them to text. You can a…
I use a single sheet of paper every day. I write down 2-4 things I want to get done that day and any small tasks I need to do (ie, reply to x email).
The rest of the paper is for notes or thoughts throughout the day.
At the end of the day I take a new sheet of paper and write the next days tasks and notes. I then toss the old page in the trash.
Every. Fucking. Day.
Works like magic.
If I can't fit it on the card, I know I don't have a chance to get it all done; in this way it's self-limiting.
Now we can have a robust debate on the best paper and writing utensils! Some will advocate for top-spiral notebooks, some composition books, others will proclaim nothing beats a Moleskine. Then the fight moves to pens vs. pencils. Fountain pens and carpenter's pencils will slug it out for supremacy in the comments. One lone maniac will die on the quill hill.
Love this. I sit here at my desk with post it notes scattered everywhere, organizing my thoughts and things to do for the day. Something about being able to physically move them around and cross things off just makes it easier for my brain to work. The problem with this workflow is getting it into the apps that I use to organize my life. These change from time to time, but Sunsama is the clear winner for me at the mo…
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Writing notes only on paper in a properly secured notebook is about to make a big comeback as more and more people realize that it's fast becoming the only way to prevent AI/ML from indexing and leaking their original IP to the corporate world. Sending an email or making a social media or discord post is fast becoming the best way to snitch out your ideas to random unknown parties and IP thieves.
I have heard it is also how NSA secure their personal passwords, they keep them in a little black book because there is no scalable attack to get access to them at rest.
On-demand RICO says hello, https://westworld.fandom.com/wiki/RICO