vim with folding Still the best tree editor I've found. I left emacs for it!
Emacs has folding too, so that cannot be the only reason..?
How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
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Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
#32I wrote something similar that got a bit of traction on here yonks ago - a bit less elegant than this though. https://github.com/tomlockwood/dn
Seems useful for daily stand ups (we do dark stand ups at the end of the day). I might give this a go
Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
#33I'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…
Why even break it down? If you are using grep and presumably editors that can go to a pattern anyway you might as well write to a single file.
I also manage my notes on the go by opening the Dropbox app on my phone and editing the txt files from there. Having subfolders helps with navigation on the Dropbox app.
Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
#34Also pretty elegant tool: https://github.com/tomlockwood/dn
Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
#35Inspired by similar plaintext to-do discussions on HN I also built my own system.
I use Sublime and I love scrolling. The second makes the system in TFTA not good for me, and given the first, I didn't mind my implementation being editor specific - but the principal is dead simple, as to not really matter.
I have a small custom function stored in Sublimes user package folder which, when called using the [cmd]+[shift]+p command palette will insert a small template in the top of the current file (my `daily.txt`).
This is just a headline with the date, and name of day of week and Two lines called start and end (with datetime filled in in start) let's me keep loose track of my hours.
I also have a sub-heading that says to-do, with two `[ ] ...` txt checkboxes already added, another headline called did and a line that separates it from the previous day.
"To-do" is for things I plan on doing, "did" is for ad-hoc things I ended up doing. This helps me keep track of how much work I actually did, which is nice for days where everything is meetings and firefighting and I don't close issues in the tracker or PRs in git.
I can use go-to symbol to jump to a date, or just search the document for key words. Like I said, I like scrolling, and enjoy being able to just scroll down to see the previous day.
The system is like I said dead simple, easy to operate, easy for anyone to implement and customize to their liking. I've used mine for a few months and it has been great!
Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
#36Ha! I recently started to do the same thing, except just a timestamp every time I run the script. If I want a blank page in the middle of the day I get one. `vn` opens a new one, `vl` opens the most recent one.
Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
#37Yet-another-note-taking-system that doesn't solve my core problem: I want to browse my notes in chronological order AND in thematic order. i.e. I want to do semantic search and automatic topic grouping. [edit: The use-case I have in mind is you are learning about a topic, and your chronological "research notebook" is also an automatic zettlekasten.]
That's easily done in Org mode for Emacs https://orgmode.org/
Org mode is something that I've always thought I should look at, but never quite have. One thing I like to do with my notes is to keep a short "todo" list at the top, listed in the order that I'm planning to work on them.
Something like:
Todo
====
- Fix Widget
- Extend Screen
- Profit
Todo
====
- Profit
- Fix Widget
- Extend Screen
Todo
====
+ Profit
- Fix Widget
- Extend Screen
Is there a way to manage that in Org mode (linking tasks to further notes would be great to have) while keeping items in relative priority order without explicitly setting due dates or priority "scores"?
Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
#38I'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…
I'm terrible at scripting, but I'm curious how you handled that. Do you mind sharing the script you created?
Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
#39Yet-another-note-taking-system that doesn't solve my core problem: I want to browse my notes in chronological order AND in thematic order. i.e. I want to do semantic search and automatic topic grouping. [edit: The use-case I have in mind is you are learning about a topic, and your chronological "research notebook" is also an automatic zettlekasten.]
Small text files named 20201204_taskno_description.txt (handles chronologic order) + grep (handles topic grouping).
Works like a charm and is very low friction when notekeeping.
Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's easily done in Org mode for Emacs https://orgmode.org/
Org mode is something that I've always thought I should look at, but never quite have. One thing I like to do with my notes is to keep a short "todo" list at the top, listed in the order that I'm planning to work on them. Something like: Todo ==== - Fix Widget - Extend Screen - Profit Then if I need to re-prioritise, I re-order: Todo ==== - Profit - Fix Widget - Extend Screen and mark tasks as completed: Todo ==== +…
For to do lists Trello is god.