This idea feels a little like bullet journaling or logseq [0] to me. For what it's worth, I do this in Obsidian and clean-up my thoughts on a regular basis. It hits the right balance of minimalism and usefulness for me.
Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
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#62Might be mild autism or some other mental condition, but I'm obsessive about timestamping everything. In my defense, it is useful when you want to refer back to it! Looks like a great little app
Timestamps are very underrated. There's so much useful information stored in them. It can help you remember what other things you did that day around that time, in what order some events happened, what were your initial plans and how they changed. These things can be so easily forgotten.
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#63Let me ask a random note-taking question. I am a heavy user of Roam ( before that workflowy, before that org mode). I have daily checklists, but also some extensive notes on specific topics and some large projects I'm tracking. But I'm so heavily using LLMs now to help with researching topics. And I haven't found a good way to bring my LLM usage to my note taking. I'd love to be able to go over some things with an LL…
Two QOL uses I've found is concept indexing and excerpt formatting.
Before/after engaging with new material, I'd generate a table of concepts and the pages these concepts are mentioned. Simple two column markdown table, nothing more.
Second, for excerpt formatting I use a specific markdown format (add timestamp header, page number, and one/two keywords) to convert my highlights after running through a PDF.
A more advanced use case is extracting the bibliography and building an inverted index of where each citation is mentioned (page numbers/paragraphs). You can then compute all sorts of concordances: which authors are referenced on the same page, what concepts are related, which authors/concepts are over/underrepresented, and so on.
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#64I like the idea, but not the web-based implementation. Local first, and ideally an open source app that can work offline when I'm going distraction free. It feels like a vim plugin. It definitely feels like org-mode can do this. A few years back I had a little command line tool where I could log things quickly - it was like syslog for humans - but with #hashtags for projects or clients, and then a small tool that wou…
I came here to type all of these thoughts, and found you'd already expressed them (and more). Even the bit about making my own command line tool. Agree!
`jrnl` commandline tool does the same with a text file. You can sync it with dropbox and use the same journal across multiple machines.
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#65Nice job! Just noticed—when an item is edited, the edited timestamp isn’t being captured.
This is probably intentional -- if you want to fix a typo or make something clearer that you've already captured you likely want to preserve the original timestamp? If you want an entry timestamped to your current time, you can make a new entry.
probably, i wonder if there shouldn't be an edited timestamp as well
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#66As someone who works as an indie contractor and bills hourly, I have been wanting something like this for an eternity. Looks pretty cool and will take it for a spin.
if you really got into the habit of putting your train of thought in here i was thinking you could use it for billing hours/dividing up billable hours
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#67It does not do images.
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#69Needs the "Show HN:" tag since the submitter is the creator.
Also the submitter is here to answer questions, but their message is buried.
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I wonder if it would be better to have a pinned message for Show HN threads. E.g. there could be a /submitshow page, which explains the Show HN process and best practices, and allows the submitter to create an explanation/AMA pinned post at submission time.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I came here to type all of these thoughts, and found you'd already expressed them (and more). Even the bit about making my own command line tool. Agree!
`jrnl` commandline tool does the same with a text file. You can sync it with dropbox and use the same journal across multiple machines.
Nice one, thanks! Mine was for a more specific use case but this could be really helpful.