it could also be a paper exercise book, couldn't it?
My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
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Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
#192My kingdom for a fast, one-page, multiplatform notes app that could accomplish this
How does everything fit into "one-page" precisely ?
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't org mode less portable though? My understanding was that you need an editor plus appropriate tooling for it to really shine, which to me is similar to saying "productivity software" and less like text editing.
I'm working on making org more portable (at least bring parts to iOS), via https://plainorg.com and flathabits.com. Karl Voit is doing the hard work of rallying folks to promote org markup outside of Emacs and hopefully create a diverse ecosystem under the Orgdown proposal https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown
Plainorg is awesome. Keep up the great work. The app has enabled me to use the org-mode based plaintext productivity system I've found most effective on my phone. Super useful.
Incidentally, the system I use is from Mark Forster's 'Autofocus' constellation of productivity experiments. Unfortunate that his work is not more widely known because it's quite effective (for me at least).
Here's a link to the version I use: http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2021/11/16/the-final...
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
This, several times this. My favorite system for knowledge management is Google Docs(due to obvious advantages- online drive, WYSIWYG etc), and for metadata/task-management tasks(GTD, working things out, mind maps, todo lists, solving software problems) is a plain cheap notebook and a pen. If you study GTD the hardest aspects of GTD are sticking to routine, and it's very easy to fall off the GTD routine. Its hard to…
I was using Google Docs until one day an inspector demanded my PERSONAL Google account credentials because they were inspecting the company I worked for - for something I wasn't even involved in. They got a court order, contacted Google, and did a Google Takeout of literally all of my data. Now I use markdown doc on a remotely encrypted share via WinSCP.
What!? In which jurisdiction?
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
#195My kingdom for a fast, one-page, multiplatform notes app that could accomplish this
I use git and Mercurial (command hg ). If you don't know Mercurial, it is a SCM/VCS written in Python.[1] You can install it with python3 -m pip install mercurial In addition to all the virtues of version control, Mercurial can also be run with an HTTP interface that is rather good. Thus, you could have a main box at home with a main Mercurial repository and run the daemon in the root of the repository: hg serve -d -…
I love and use Mercurial every day! No problem there.
I'd like to improve on Google Docs when it comes to rapidly jotting personal notes/referring to to-dos across devices through the day.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
#196Just sharing this tool, logseq [1], that I learned about a couple of weeks ago. It traffics in plain text files and does graphically what an org-mode might do after a lot of work. I figure more people should be aware of this open source tool I hope improves and becomes more robust. [1]: https://logseq.com/
I actually used it continuously for six months. Once the data and the size of the graph increases, it gets very slow, even text editing gets unresponsive. The features are good, but it will get slow and taking notes feel sluggish
That's unfortunate, since I've been using and enjoying it for about a month now. I was planning to ramp up my usage quite a bit. I suppose they will be working on performance, but there's no telling how soon that comes.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was using Google Docs until one day an inspector demanded my PERSONAL Google account credentials because they were inspecting the company I worked for - for something I wasn't even involved in. They got a court order, contacted Google, and did a Google Takeout of literally all of my data. Now I use markdown doc on a remotely encrypted share via WinSCP.
What!? In which jurisdiction?
I'm not allowed to talk about it - sorry. F'ing crazy story.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to have that quote posted on my bathroom mirror - now it's just ingrained. It applies to so many parts of life, whether it's exercise, productivity, starting a business or building relationships. Related is that motivation is fleeting and only leads to individual acts. Discipline on the other hand is what builds habits. It's what you do day and and day out that leads to success or failure.
I think the "motivation" that people consider fleeting is actually inspiration (like when you have a new project idea and stay up overnight excitedly working on it). Discipline is important, but without motivation you will end up doubting why you are working so hard on something you don't care about. In my mind, motivation is continually reminding yourself of what outcomes you're working towards, so you don't lose si…
From Rear Window:
Lisa: Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that?
Jeff: He gets it from the landlady once a month.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm working on making org more portable (at least bring parts to iOS), via https://plainorg.com and flathabits.com. Karl Voit is doing the hard work of rallying folks to promote org markup outside of Emacs and hopefully create a diverse ecosystem under the Orgdown proposal https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown
Plainorg is awesome. Keep up the great work. The app has enabled me to use the org-mode based plaintext productivity system I've found most effective on my phone. Super useful. Incidentally, the system I use is from Mark Forster's 'Autofocus' constellation of productivity experiments. Unfortunate that his work is not more widely known because it's quite effective (for me at least). Here's a link to the version I use:…
> Plainorg is awesome. Keep up the great work. The app has enabled me to use the org-mode based plaintext productivity system I've found most effective on my phone. Super useful.
Wonderful to hear. Thank you.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)
#200> There's no running "todo" list with items that keep pushed back day after day
Your calendar would easily become that, unless you are always excellent at estimating what you are able to do on each day. Also, what days will you put items on which has no set date? What about when priorities change? Do you then have to reorder items on a lot of days in your calendar?