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Wow, great timing. Around a week ago I spent an hour digging through my bookmarks for something I'd found via HN, and I must not have bookmarked. I can't recal
by thusly 8y ago
Wow, great timing. Around a week ago I spent an hour digging through my bookmarks for something I'd found via HN, and I must not have bookmarked.
I can't recall what the original post linked to, but in the comments someone discussed their preferred method of organizing their digital notes/journal. They linked to a forum post where someone described the system.
It involved using a single folder for all notes, with different categories, that were indicated in the file name. In fact the file name contained everything important. It also discussed never altering a file, but creating an index to refer to other related entries.
I think the person who wrote the forum post was a journalist of some sort? And they might have made reference to a Japanese system that was similar, but physical, which used lines on the top of index cards to indicate categories, and keeping the number of categories low (always 4?) was important.
I'd love to find that forum post again.
- spython 8y agoNot what you are searching, but I found Notational Velocity (http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/ http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/) indispensable for quick note-taking. It is very lightweight, and I have a shortcut bound to it, so I'm always just a shortcut away from writing down notes. Searching for notes is just as fast, and with a flat file structure for data it is easily synchronized across devices.
- ATDrake 8y agoThe index card version of that note-taking system sounds somewhat like Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten or Pile of Index Cards, which have both had some posts describing them linked on HN previously: http://takingnotenow.blogspot.ca/2007/12/luhmanns-zettelkasten.html http://takingnotenow.blogspot.ca/2007/12/luhmanns-zettelkast... https://zettelkasten.de/posts/zettelkasten-improves-thinking-writing/ https://zettelkasten.de/posts/zettelkasten-improves-thinking... http://pileofindexcards.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://pileofindexcards.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://pileofindexcards.org/blog/cluster/ http://pileofindexcards.org/blog/cluster/ Another HN post from the zettelkasten.de domain had a comment with a link to this project on Github, which sounds a lot like the filename-based system you mention, at least in terms of putting all the info into the filename: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16611413 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16611413 https://github.com/galfarragem/superfolder https://github.com/galfarragem/superfolder Maybe it's not the one you were looking for, but could be useful anyway?