It's not the "tool" is the behavior (the individual).
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
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been using notebooks for years to write things down, but only recently I found one with a table of contents area at the front that has been immensely helpful in finding things later on.
What brand?
Not OP, but these are quite popular with the bullet journal crowd. ToC, better paper than the likes of Moleskine, takes me right about a year to fill one up.
https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/notebook-medium-a5-hardcover-2...
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#63I jumped on this bandwagon about 6 months ago and I love it. Like many others I had some levels of success with other apps (trello, RTM, Todoist, Toodledo, etc.), but a single text file is a whole new world. I've been do
My setup is a single .md file with typora as an editor. Some things I love about it are:
- Markdown checklists that (with custom css) can be faded when checked - When I copy/paste an image in (often a screenshot of a whiteboard or sketch) it creates a local copy in ~./resources. - Outline view on the side (I used headings to separate days, weeks, quarters, and year). - I keep goals for the week/quarter/year near the top so I see them when I'm setting goals for the day/week/quarter.
The other nice things that's grown out of it is that I've started to create a knowledgebase (popular to discuss these days [0]) that is a collection of .md files (for example injection-molding.md, antennas.md, etc.). Having the same format for it and my todos makes adding to either seem more seamless. Just in the past 6 months the collection has become much more useful than the enormous pile of content I'd collected in evernote over the years.
At the end of the day I commit+push and that's it.
I don't see myself going back (although will maybe change to a FOSS .md editor once it has enough features).
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#64One step up from this (if you’re a vim user) is vimwiki. But it really doesn’t matter what you use, the real benefit comes from having a process/habit of continuous review.
I tried vimwiki and it's really cool. However I couldn't get to "one step up" because it was so vim-specific and I didn't have access to that on every system I used. As a compromise I decided to lean into editor snippets for personal productivity and automation, since these are available in just about every major editor. The rest of my tools are externalized and called as such from the editor, like pandoc and various…
Curious why you don't have vim on every system?
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#65I made a quick plugin to vscode where F6 opens up a specific text file on my disk. This is where I capture all these things. For me the trick is that there is no formatting. It's just a rough scratch pad to make short lived lists or things I need to remember.
Any chance you could share this plugin?
It's not really in sharing condition but here you are: https://github.com/ablakey/vscode-scratchpad
I forked another plugin that mostly did what I wanted and removed code that auto injected a timestamp.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
What brand?
Not OP, but these are quite popular with the bullet journal crowd. ToC, better paper than the likes of Moleskine, takes me right about a year to fill one up. https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/notebook-medium-a5-hardcover-2...
That's the one! Found it by accident and love it.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#67I used org mode at my last job, lots of management data, deep learning research, and patent application notes. Org worked great for me. Now except for occasional DL related consulting, I am retired and my tech world activities are centered around writing. I have four book ideas that I will get to in the next few years, and updating my older books to new editions takes time. Keeping notes and research is vital for aut…
Seems that Apple encrypts Notes data in transit and on server
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
Is it IMAP that's the concern?
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#68Tempted to try this. Whats common format to use or the point is there is not one?
Also this made me think of StarTrek captains log...
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#69I have been using StandardNotes (https://standardnotes.org/), which stores all my data in encrypted format and syncs across my devices..
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#70My 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.
Same. I love my analog tools despite working my entire career in computers/software.