![]() ![]() So I ended up going with paper and got myself a really nice Hobonichi Techo Planner in red. And then the reply by got me quite curious. TiddlyWiki sounds like the perfect solution for recording documentation for my clients, so that if I need to revisit their project in the future it becomes easier, but maybe it is not the journaling solution I am looking for.Īs mentioned in the original question, I was temped to just dump digital and go with paper. I want to have minimum friction and a flexible system, mostly to work as a fancy diary. While I was reviewing the awesome options shown here, I came to realize that my main problem regards journaling is actually friction. Org-mode sounds fantastic, I haven’t yet heard any bad review about it from anyone who uses it but even though I know just enough emacs to cause me trouble, I think I’d probably spend more time tweaking my. Boostnote sub folder mac#It was the first thing I checked this week when I got back on a mac and deciding against it was what actually drove me here in the first place. I didn’t mentioned there but I was a user of Day One long time ago, before switching away from macs for some years. I’ve been following the replies and checked most of the apps mentioned here, even if only briefly by going to their website. Wow so many good answers, I am a bit overwhelmed. We’re trying too hard to get applications to do our work for us, when what you really need to do is just build some good habits… ![]() It’s something it takes effort to do consistently, and no amount of UI optimizations, usability work and unique features will make it work. I think the fact that there are so many of these apps out there, is a pretty good signifier that people just have a hard time using apps like that to do these things, someones always reinventing it to try and make the task better and less obtrusive. I spent about 4 years burning through a lot of them, I’d start using them with the best of intentions and after a few months or even weeks, one morning I’d just forget to open the app and it would all be over, i’d never open it again. There are so many journalling, calendaring and task management apps out there, but they all do some things really well and others not very well. Its a really cool feeling having a shelf of notebooks sitting near you at home as well, you can go back through them easily and think “holy crap I was an idiot? Why did I think that would work?” and you rediscover old ideas later on. You just turn your head, move you hands and jot things down without interrupting your work flow as badly as searching for your journal app then getting hung up on where to organize a snippet, note, event date, etc… your screen stays set up and focused on your work. The thing about keeping most things on paper is that you don’t then have to swap screens all the time, or add another app to the list of apps you’re juggling on your desktop. That way I don’t have to have a dedicated terminal window open to use it and I don’t even have to close, it I just click back to where I’m working and the terminal goes away. I have iTerm2 set up with HotKey to open a guake-like terminal overlay so that I can hit a key, down drops the terminal frmo the top of my screen, type task add blah blah blah then the key again to make the terminal go away. Then for just plain old tasks I use TaskWarrior, as it sort of gets out of your way and you don’t have to have a GUI open, just a terminal somewhere. I have a _scratch folder at the top of my projects folder I dump that stuff into loosely organized into folders by topic/context, that gets synced to Amazon S3 periodically. If it’s something I need to catalog somewhere like snippets, or links, etc. Then a notebook with really nice paper (blank pages) and a nice pen to jot down notes throughout the day into. I have a Hobonichi Techo Planner that I carry with me everywhere that I make a point of reviewing every morning and updating. I still really like paper for the most part. ![]()
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