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
#2This is exactly what I do, except I don't save the to do lists. Instead, I simply spin out any ideas and notes I'd taken into a separate new note. I've got around 10,000 notes now that I've never looked at, but I simply like knowing they are there as it seems to provide a nice psycholgoical foundation for the continued evolution of my ideas/thoughts.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#3would never make me productive but im glad it works for you.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#4This sounds great. How do you deal with long running projects?
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#5One step up from this (if you’re a vim user) is vimwiki.
But it really doesn’t matter what you use, the real benefit comes from having a process/habit of continuous review.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#6I do the same thing on my Linux machine, except I also have scripts I wrote for conveniently adding various tasks and notes to my file with automatic formatting which I predefine in another file for various types of tasks. I then have a cron job that regularly reads the file everyday and puts new items into a Postgres database so I can run queries later through a web interface I host from my home on a static IP so I can check tasks when I’m away from my computer. My plan is to eventually allow for myself to push items into the database and have the txt file sync up with the new lines of text automatically when I startup my machine.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#7One step up from this (if you’re a vim user) is vimwiki. But it really doesn’t matter what you use, the real benefit comes from having a process/habit of continuous review.
I tried vimwiki and it's really cool. However I couldn't get to "one step up" because it was so vim-specific and I didn't have access to that on every system I used. As a compromise I decided to lean into editor snippets for personal productivity and automation, since these are available in just about every major editor. The rest of my tools are externalized and called as such from the editor, like pandoc and various little apps and system scripts.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#8This is exactly what I do, except I don't save the to do lists. Instead, I simply spin out any ideas and notes I'd taken into a separate new note. I've got around 10,000 notes now that I've never looked at, but I simply like knowing they are there as it seems to provide a nice psycholgoical foundation for the continued evolution of my ideas/thoughts.
Hi person who seems to be me. Try orgmode I started a bit ago and it seems to be an improvement - but things still are getting out of control.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#9I used notepad++ to record daily work logs and pseudo codes. Low overhead, fast, always work like a charm.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#10The solution is so simple. I like it, I think I may even give it a try. Thanks for sharing.