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Totally agree goo! I do something more or less the same as you, just to not the same extent—but I will be soon when I export my 'to watch' list from IMDB and 't

Totally agree goo! I do something more or less the same as you, just to not the same extent—but I will be soon when I export my 'to watch' list from IMDB and 'to read' list from Instapaper. Since 2013 I started creating a text file almost every day in a directory structure of '../daily/2017/17-10-14.txt'. I use it as a journal (I put the current time and wrote whatever it is down), a scratchpad, a temporary todo, habit tracker, etc. It's been super useful for me. I've thought about formalising it, using tags, etc. but have found myself getting along fine. I used to use Day One (macOS/iOS) religiously but have found that this daily txt log mostly sufficient. What I would like is to expand my macros from getting the current time to getting my current location and weather. For work, I have a 'log.txt' in which I have a section for each day and copy-forward the previous day's section. While we have our own company tracking tools, etc., this is purely for me and has helped me keep better track of everything I need/want to do without letting anything slip out. I've found that doing each of these things takes up very little time too—partly due to not formalising it or making it fancy. I've thought about using a vimwiki which I'm a big fan of, and gave it a go once, but I stopped. It was no fault of vimwiki itself, but so far have found the text files sufficient. For my phone (iPhone), I use https://ia.net/writer/ https://ia.net/writer/, and I keep all these text files in Dropbox. Another reason why I've stuck to text files is because of the fatigue of different apps and services disappearing due to whatever reasons.

danilocesar 9y ago
I'm doing almost the same thing. I have a simple script that opens a ~/Documents/devlog/20171015.txt automatically when I start working. When I need to find something old I use fgrep on that folder. Works like a charm. It's plain text, no defined structure. I dont't use it for TODOs as that info would get easily lost. I use it almost everyday, specially when something different happen: how to release an old piece of software that current setup dont support anymore or how to connect to a service that I only use sporadically. I tried some tools and apps for this, even tried to track that for a few days in Trello. eventually I gave up and went back to the plain txt file.

danilocesar 9y ago

I'm doing almost the same thing. I have a simple script that opens a ~/Documents/devlog/20171015.txt automatically when I start working. When I need to find something old I use fgrep on that folder. Works like a charm. It's plain text, no defined structure. I dont't use it for TODOs as that info would get easily lost. I use it almost everyday, specially when something different happen: how to release an old piece of software that current setup dont support anymore or how to connect to a service that I only use sporadically. I tried some tools and apps for this, even tried to track that for a few days in Trello. eventually I gave up and went back to the plain txt file.