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Re: Daily Notes Considered Harmful

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Nice. I followed this process of appending the date instead of new notes (or pages) because the paper is too costly. I fell in love with the Midori MD Notebook. I do not want to waste space on the paper, and hence keep appending new notes. Btw, try out those translucent sticky notes for the highlights.

That is a great notebook; I agree that it’s too fine to leave pages unwritten. The only time I do that is when I change jobs. I’ll have to search up those sticky notes; I didn’t know they existed!

There are a lots of them. I got mine from Amazon. I usually go to JetPens[1] to do the research. I usually tend to start with the Japanese ones.

I’ve been writing (pen-paper) to my daughters on a Notebook. Not a secret. Kept on my desk and besides me, they also love reading the notes. I use a such stickies to highlight interesting ones that I go back and re-read them more often than the other notes.

I suggest writing by addressing to a stranger, the future-you, and I’m very confident those stickies will help. :-)

https://www.jetpens.com/search?q=Translucent+Sticky+Notes

Re: Daily Notes Considered Harmful

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> Instead you should focus on creating notes that you are likely to revisit or likely to share.

One interesting thing I have discovered: the interface matters just as much as the content.

The faster you can recall notes, the more useful you find them, which makes it more likely you will write more notes.

I also put answers in the titles of my notes which allows me to scan a list of previously solved issues. The combination of a vague yyyy-mm-dd.md title and just a file system UI makes recall harder.

I have a fuzzy search app for Apple Notes that has been working well for me:

https://github.com/emadda/hot-notes

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