I have done this since I began learning but I make a folder for every new topic so it’s easy to go back and do a refresher.
Keeping a plaintext “did” file
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
At some point you do need to stop baling water and actually plug the hole though.
Nah. The bridge crew all have executive lifeboats. No biggie if the ship goes down.
To completely and hyperbolically torture this metaphor, as long as you whip the galley slaves to row fast enough so that you can jump to safety on "Short Term Stock Gain" Island, you'll be fine.
Re: Keeping a plaintext “did” file
#153Since the start of this year I've been keeping a similar journal. Instead of opening an editor to write a single line to a text file, I just print the arguments of a command to the end of a file and prefixed with a timestamp. Since there's no need to review or save the file, there's no interruption in what I'm doing. Logging things to the file feels like shooting things into the ether and I end up doing it constantly throughout the day.
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#154Great idea. Welcome to the .txt family. A while ago I published Journal.TXT - a single-text file format for journals and the human multi-document format for writers. See https://journaltxt.github.io PS: I also started Awesome .TXT - A collection of awesome .TXT tools, formats, services, tips & tricks and more. See https://github.com/officetxt/awesome-txt
Just checked it out a bit today. Looks like a lot of good stuff there. Thanks for sharing.
Re: Keeping a plaintext “did” file
#155For a decade or so, I've been using `vim -o ~/{todo,progress,done}` That gives me vim with three splits. Every day I add a new heading with the current date in the bottom split, then in the top one I list the things I plan to do that day. As new urgent work comes in throughout the day, I add it to the top split too. When I start working on something, I move it to the middle split. If I have to shift between tasks, I'…
This is great! I might end up doing something like `alias todo=vim -o ~/{todo,progress,done}`
edit: I was curious so pulled up the man page: changing -o to -O opens the windows horizontally stacked.
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#156I log everything worth remembering and some. Whether it is something I did, a link I want to read, or something I bought. I use a file called log.txt. It is synced across all my devices. I have a very minimal format that goes like this:
# 16/07/2018
- read about did.txt on HN
- [ ] write about log.txt on HN
- cost: 2.9€ coffee at 93
I tried Evernote, onenote, physical notebooks and a hundred other tools. This is one that I settled on. All I need is a text editor on any platform.
Back to the log, there are several times I have visited it to find out what happened during the day. I use it at times as a review of how well the week went and what I could improve on.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to do this in visual studio, it had a task list view that would aggregate all the comments that start with 'TODO'. Since I made the move to VSCode I haven't found anything similar.
I think https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Gruntfug... is what you're looking for.
Thank you!
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#158Sharing my utility Jot: https://github.com/mkaz/jot Jot stores notes in text files organized by date, includes simple searching, templates, and a few other niceties; plus you can add notes via command-line, pipe, or open in your EDITOR (vim)
Whoa never heard of Syncthing (open source syncing to replace dropbox). What led you to choose that?
It always brings me sincere joy to see another person discover syncthing. One of my all-time favorite pieces of software.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whoa never heard of Syncthing (open source syncing to replace dropbox). What led you to choose that?
I was using Bittorrent Sync for awhile but the product got buggy, renamed, and seems like going through weird times. So looked for an open source alternative and found Syncthing. It works well to keep files in sync between laptop and desktop, its all local - but you give up any cloud storage if all your computers go fubar.
It definitely takes extra work to protect yourseld against data loss using syncthing over something like Dropbox. I have a mirrored ZFS (FreeNAS vm) which I back up to a usb HD and Backblaze (600GB is running me about 3USD/month)
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#160Does anyone know of a good open source text-based journaling system that lets you easily inline images/audio/video/etc, with render-to-html functionality? My goal is to document what's going on in my life, and that's not really possible with only text. This is where Evernote really shines in my opinion. I've been missing that functionality ever since I got off Evernote. Been wanting to create a basic system for myself for a while now.