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How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by sails »

yodsanklai wrote: post #67

I like to use the tools available on my system, so I simply use Apple Notes. It's simple, good for synchronization, backing and searching, good for regular text with minimal formatting, but not good for code snippets unfortunately. I'm open to alternatives (but don't want to bother with versioning). Overall, taking notes isn't a solved issue for me. I mostly like pen and paper as a thinking tool, but I'm not able to…

Worth noting, exporting Apple Notes in bulk loses any hyperlinked URLS. It also doesn't copy hyperlinks when copy-pasting out of Notes. Terrible for portability.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by nickjj »

herodoturtle wrote: post #2

I'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…

This is what I do too. I have 20 years of notes saved like this.

I also open sourced a zero dependency Bash script that handles this at: https://github.com/nickjj/notes

It supports adding notes in 3 different ways:

    notes hello world      appends the text to the YYYY-MM.txt dated file
    echo cool | notes      same as above except you can pipe in text
    notes                  opens the YYYY-MM.txt file in your configured $EDITOR
I use all 3 methods of input on a regular basis depending on what I want to jot down.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by mhdhn »

yodsanklai wrote: post #67

I like to use the tools available on my system, so I simply use Apple Notes. It's simple, good for synchronization, backing and searching, good for regular text with minimal formatting, but not good for code snippets unfortunately. I'm open to alternatives (but don't want to bother with versioning). Overall, taking notes isn't a solved issue for me. I mostly like pen and paper as a thinking tool, but I'm not able to…

It lets you interleave pictures. Really useful feature. It also does the URL expansion thing, what's that called?, where they expand a url into a mini snippet of the corresponding website. That's sometimes useful. However, there's no clean way to control it.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by k_sze »

k_sze wrote: post #64
nicbou wrote: post #16

I use paper. Digital notes are great if you need them to be available everywhere, or edit them time and time again, but paper is still significantly better for me. I keep my recipes in Keep and on my personal website, because I often amend them. However I discovered that printed recipes are much more pleasant to use. Likewise, I'd much rather have a dirty notebook to sketch and write on when I'm working in the garage…

I can’t use pen and paper because I’m surrounded by nosy people who don’t know to respect my privacy. And if I put some kind of lock on a physical diary or something, they complain that I am hiding something.

Why am I getting downvoted? Am I not raising a valid point about physical privacy? It’s not like I’m calling anybody here nosy.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by mssundaram »

k_sze wrote: post #74
k_sze wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t use pen and paper because I’m surrounded by nosy people who don’t know to respect my privacy. And if I put some kind of lock on a physical diary or something, they complain that I am hiding something.

Why am I getting downvoted? Am I not raising a valid point about physical privacy? It’s not like I’m calling anybody here nosy.

HackerNews is weird :/

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by jraph »

k_sze wrote: post #74
k_sze wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t use pen and paper because I’m surrounded by nosy people who don’t know to respect my privacy. And if I put some kind of lock on a physical diary or something, they complain that I am hiding something.

Why am I getting downvoted? Am I not raising a valid point about physical privacy? It’s not like I’m calling anybody here nosy.

Karl, could you avoid using a nickname on HN in an attempt to speak about us in bad ways behind our backs?

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by dageshi »

My system as of right now...

Todoist on my phone for tasks. I like todoist because it's got a nicely polished interface and an excellent API.

I use an AWS Lambda to define and push repeating tasks into Todoist at set times, it also moves tasks from certain lists into my inbox at certain times of the day/week. Basically I don't want to fiddle with setting times or scheduling in todoist except for one off scheduled tasks. I just want to put tasks into the right lists and let the lambda move them into the inbox when I need to do them.

This is effectively a kind of timeboxing so I generally do all my work in the morning till early afternoon and then do research/admin for the next days tasks in the afternoon.

For notes and project management I use Roam Research which I found suited me best.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by k_sze »

jraph wrote: post #76
k_sze wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why am I getting downvoted? Am I not raising a valid point about physical privacy? It’s not like I’m calling anybody here nosy.

Karl, could you avoid using a nickname on HN in an attempt to speak about us in bad ways behind our backs?

Wait, what? You clearly don’t know me because my name is not Karl.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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dageshi wrote: post #78

My system as of right now... Todoist on my phone for tasks. I like todoist because it's got a nicely polished interface and an excellent API. I use an AWS Lambda to define and push repeating tasks into Todoist at set times, it also moves tasks from certain lists into my inbox at certain times of the day/week. Basically I don't want to fiddle with setting times or scheduling in todoist except for one off scheduled tas…

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