How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
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How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
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Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
#2I've built a similar system from scratch - also using this Dropbox daily notes file technique - except my script generates folders and sub folders for each year (YYYY) and each month within each year (YYY-MM) whenever I instantiate a file on a certain day. Makes long term management much easier than having thousands of files in one folder. Same grep principles apply (and I use hashtags within my notes to track keywords).
Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
#3I've built a similar system from scratch - also using this Dropbox daily notes file technique - except my script generates folders and sub folders for each year (YYYY) and each month within each year (YYY-MM) whenever I instantiate a file on a certain day. Makes long term management much easier than having thousands of files in one folder. Same grep principles apply (and I use hashtags within my notes to track keywor…
That's a very good idea. I might use that for my script. Thanks!
Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
#4Similar tactic here, has been working extremely well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22279802
I also set it up to auto-create/open my daily-doc in the background when I open a new terminal session, since days that I do that are days that I most want to take notes. It serves as a very good, very minor reminder to actually write something down. And if I don't write anything, I can just delete empty files later with a trivial `find`.
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#5I just use rednotebook on Linux and it's very good.
I have daily notes, a small calendar to navigate to dates in the past/future, a tag cloud populated with words I've written the most, and a search bar that I don't know how it works but usually finds what I'm looking for.
It's no fancy system but it's immediate, no dumb nerding and dumb wheel reinvention needed.
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#6For a long time I had a Zapier setup that did something similar.
v1 created a templated note in evernote which I eventually enhanced to a more custom solution.
v2 used google cloud print to create a pdf from html and add to my google drive then move it into the Notability folder so I could access it and write on it from the Notability app on my ipad.
I loved this because I could also pull in weather, horoscope, daily calvin and hobbes, news headlines, top gitlab issues for my projects and add them to the html template/pdf. Frequently I'd end up physically printing it.
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#8For the past couple of months I have been using org-roam [0] for this and I find it quite effective. Just found out that I have 87 different notes lying around:
$ ls *org | wc -l
87
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#9Very nice! i installed it and will give it a shot. Thanks for sharing!
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#10I'm still figuring out my own ways. Right now, lots of text/markdown files. I really like "My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file"[1].