So do people append at the bottom or put each new day at the top?
Top, because my editor opens at top.
My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
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Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#342My favourite "productivity app" is not an app at all. It's a plain old notebook. I write down any notes and actions I need to take, and strike through them once finished. It has a nice benefit that I can scribble notes, draw lines between ideas, sketch out diagrams, etc.
Agreed. I tried using the "pencil" on the iPad. Writing on glass doesn't feel as satisfying as writing on paper at all, despite the iPad being very very responsive. I also started using an ink pen to slow down my pen strokes so that I think more before I put things down. Oddly that's changed how structured my thoughts are.
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I save these text files to my desktop, call me old school.
But then you've only got it locally. The advantage to VCS is that you can trivially have it on multiple machines (desktop, laptop, android with termux). You can even do it between your own machines via ssh if you don't like "cloud" stuff.
Using syncthing you can trivially have it everywhere as well, with only a one-time setup and no continuous need to manually commit changes and manually sync them (unless you're using hooks for your VCS to automate that I guess).
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#344Me too, i has using windows notepad since 2003 to take notes, but in 02/2019 i just found Joplin...and its a amazing tool, simple like notepad and with cloud integration for backup.
https://joplinapp.org/
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
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Can you please elaborate on the bugs and feature?
When I enter a new line within source blocks(but often also outside) it starts to wiggle horizontally. It only stops after I revert-buffer or add another line. Calling comment-line in an elisp source block causes a syntax error because it'll also split up the line below. And the time tracking feature doesn't work across Emacs restarts, because for some reason it seems to rely on some timer running in the background.…
Ok thanks :)
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#347I do something similar to this but I use docs. It's nice because then I can edit it from anywhere.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#348Question: about "There's no running "todo" list with items that keep pushed back day after day" - but what if you have items that you don't manage to do, and they accumulate, example of such low priority items: pause car licence (nothing bad will happen if you don't), cancel some subscription, let's say you have many of those, where do you put them and how do you avoid this growing list? let's say every day I manage…
Those kind of tasks would go in the online calendar, scheduled on some future date. > The one outside tool I use is an online calendar, and I put everything on this calendar, even things that aren't actually for a fixed time like "make a coffee table at the workshop" or "figure out how to recruit new PhD students" — I'll schedule them on a date when I want to think about it. That way all my future plans and schedule…
Thanks! Great advice, so instead of aggregating all my non-important tasks, I'll just schedule them :) how didn't I think of it. :)
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#349I use a single text file, have done this for decades. I dump everything into it and don't worry too much about structure, it's an incredible resource for "remembering" minutia, things like "what was that server that i thought might have had some issues last August?" Just a quick control-S and I'm there. My current 7+ year old notes file has about 100K lines in it right now. I can tell you what I was doing last year,…
> it cracks open Emacs on the notes file, adds a timestamp, appends the optional text
Do you mind sharing how you have setup Emacs to do that? Thanks!
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#350I use a single text file, have done this for decades. I dump everything into it and don't worry too much about structure, it's an incredible resource for "remembering" minutia, things like "what was that server that i thought might have had some issues last August?" Just a quick control-S and I'm there. My current 7+ year old notes file has about 100K lines in it right now. I can tell you what I was doing last year,…
> it cracks open Emacs on the notes file, adds a timestamp, appends the optional text Do you mind sharing how you have setup Emacs to do that? Thanks!
Upvoted. Trying to setup that as well