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I have a notebook and I essentially dump everything into it. Each meeting I put a simple header: "Payments Weekly" or "Bob 1:1" or "API Review" and then jot my

I have a notebook and I essentially dump everything into it. Each meeting I put a simple header: "Payments Weekly" or "Bob 1:1" or "API Review" and then jot my notes underneath. The only organization that exists is that it's written in chronological order. I'd like an app with dead simple "just start typing" with a basic header to name the section... but what I don't want to have to do is go back and clean up and edit and organize. I'm just not that kind of person. I'm not very organized in general, and I don't have the personality traits needed to say "Hmm, I think I'll organize my notes." But it'd be great if something would detect that I've had five "Bob 1:1" meetings and would group those together, for example. Maybe something lightweight like this exists, but I haven't seen it...

knrz 6y ago
You’re looking for something like Roam Research or one of the apps it’s inspired.
- chrisweekly 6y ago
  You beat me to it. Roam's Daily Notes (automatically created) are about as low-friction as it gets to meet the OP's "spec".
- Jemaclus 6y ago
  Never heard of it. I'll check it out!
cborenstein 6y ago
> it'd be great if something would detect that I've had five "Bob 1:1" meetings and would group those together, for example. This is really interesting. Thanks for the idea! We don't currently offer this kind of detection in bytebase.io but I see how this can be very useful. The way I take meeting notes in bytebase.io is with a feature called "create scratch collection" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlCQZ8xGL-Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlCQZ8xGL-Q). How it works is you hit q and then just start writing, kind of like you're texting yourself. With scratch collections, you don't need to worry about where your notes go. You just get them down. Then, sometime later, you can go back through and name the notes and categorize them - if you're so inclined. You can also extract anything actionable into todos
ColinWright 6y ago
Do you ever re-visit your notes? * If so, how? * If not, what is their value? Edit: I've returned and re-read that comment. It may come off as a little snarky, but it's not intended as such, it's a genuine question. I ask, because I'm interested in how other people's processes work, and wonder whether my system would be of use or value to anyone else.
- bluGill 6y ago
  The value of some notes is the act of taking notes keeps me from falling asleep and missing the 1 thing that I should care about that nobody would tell me otherwise...
  - Jemaclus 6y ago
    This, definitely. I don't allow my team to bring laptops into any of my meetings, unless they are giving a presentation, and I have taught and encouraged them to avoid taking laptops to other team members' meetings. Instead, we bring notebooks and pens. This serves a few purposes. First, like you said, it forces you to pay attention. You learn a lot more, and you get more involved. You ask more questions and you walk out of the room having learned something. Second, it makes you look GOOD. Imagine going into a meeting with the CTO and you're the only person without a laptop, the only one making eye contact, the only one writing things down. As far as the CTO is concerned, everyone else is dicking around on Facebook, and here you are, bluGill, taking notes and being a go-getter. My team resisted my rule when they first heard them, but (pre-COVID) I've overheard them suggest to other people not on our team to leave the laptop at their desk and bring a notebook instead. It really works.
- benrbray 6y ago
  Not who you were replying to, but: * Most of my notes relate to a single blog post / article / paper that I read. * In my notes, I jot down any new concepts I learned, and summarize them in a way I know I will be able to understand later. * I'm very forgetful, so it helps to have this type of "condensed" representation so I can go back and review in six months when I inevitably forget what I learned. * It's even better if my note-taking software can help me find old notes that I may have forgotten about. This is where tags and bidirectional links come in handy. * My notes contain a lot of math, which is why I can't just use a plain text editor. The side-by-side style some editors use (like the VS Code Markdown Preview) is also suboptimal, because it wastes screen space -- normally I want half my screen to be notes, the other half to be a pdf). So far, Typora is the only software I've used that gets math editing right. But I'm slowly working to fix that! [1,2] [1] https://github.com/benrbray/prosemirror-math https://github.com/benrbray/prosemirror-math [2] https://benrbray.com/static/prosemirror-math/index.html https://benrbray.com/static/prosemirror-math/index.html (only tested in chrome)
thesuitonym 6y ago
If it's all just plain text, you can grep -a to find all of your 1:1s with Bob. It's not as pretty as some overengineered electron app, sure, but it will get you what you want.
- infogulch 6y ago
  "`grep -a 'Bob 1:1'` Hm, not as much as I expected. Maybe spaces? `grep -a 'Bob 1 : 1'` there's a few, maybe any number of spaces? `grep -aP 'Bob 1\s{0,}:\s{0,}1'` Oh I could have spelled it out `grep -a 'Bob one on one'` Or it could be in a different order `grep -a '1:1 with Bob'` ... diff --git a/2020-08-09.md b/2020-08-09.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c599ee6 --- /dev/null +++ b/2020-08-09.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +* Set up one on one again with bob on 2020-08-24 13:00. I thought I set one up + with him for next week already but I can't seem to find it. +* I figured out some searches I can do to find one on ones: + + grep -a 'Bob 1:1' + grep -a 'Bob 1 : 1" + grep -aP 'Bob 1\s{0,}:\s{0,}1' + grep -a 'Bob one on one' + grep -a '1:1 with Bob'
agambrahma 6y ago
I use `org-journal` to have timestamped daily notes. If I think it's going to take more than a couple of minutes, I start a new .org and add bullet points to it (currently just dumping these in some canonical, indexed location, haven't felt the need for something fancier like org-roam yet)

knrz 6y ago

You’re looking for something like Roam Research or one of the apps it’s inspired.

chrisweekly 6y ago
You beat me to it. Roam's Daily Notes (automatically created) are about as low-friction as it gets to meet the OP's "spec".
Jemaclus 6y ago
Never heard of it. I'll check it out!

cborenstein 6y ago

> it'd be great if something would detect that I've had five "Bob 1:1" meetings and would group those together, for example. This is really interesting. Thanks for the idea! We don't currently offer this kind of detection in bytebase.io but I see how this can be very useful. The way I take meeting notes in bytebase.io is with a feature called "create scratch collection" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlCQZ8xGL-Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlCQZ8xGL-Q). How it works is you hit q and then just start writing, kind of like you're texting yourself. With scratch collections, you don't need to worry about where your notes go. You just get them down. Then, sometime later, you can go back through and name the notes and categorize them - if you're so inclined. You can also extract anything actionable into todos

ColinWright 6y ago

Do you ever re-visit your notes? * If so, how? * If not, what is their value? Edit: I've returned and re-read that comment. It may come off as a little snarky, but it's not intended as such, it's a genuine question. I ask, because I'm interested in how other people's processes work, and wonder whether my system would be of use or value to anyone else.

bluGill 6y ago
The value of some notes is the act of taking notes keeps me from falling asleep and missing the 1 thing that I should care about that nobody would tell me otherwise...
- Jemaclus 6y ago
  This, definitely. I don't allow my team to bring laptops into any of my meetings, unless they are giving a presentation, and I have taught and encouraged them to avoid taking laptops to other team members' meetings. Instead, we bring notebooks and pens. This serves a few purposes. First, like you said, it forces you to pay attention. You learn a lot more, and you get more involved. You ask more questions and you walk out of the room having learned something. Second, it makes you look GOOD. Imagine going into a meeting with the CTO and you're the only person without a laptop, the only one making eye contact, the only one writing things down. As far as the CTO is concerned, everyone else is dicking around on Facebook, and here you are, bluGill, taking notes and being a go-getter. My team resisted my rule when they first heard them, but (pre-COVID) I've overheard them suggest to other people not on our team to leave the laptop at their desk and bring a notebook instead. It really works.
benrbray 6y ago
Not who you were replying to, but: * Most of my notes relate to a single blog post / article / paper that I read. * In my notes, I jot down any new concepts I learned, and summarize them in a way I know I will be able to understand later. * I'm very forgetful, so it helps to have this type of "condensed" representation so I can go back and review in six months when I inevitably forget what I learned. * It's even better if my note-taking software can help me find old notes that I may have forgotten about. This is where tags and bidirectional links come in handy. * My notes contain a lot of math, which is why I can't just use a plain text editor. The side-by-side style some editors use (like the VS Code Markdown Preview) is also suboptimal, because it wastes screen space -- normally I want half my screen to be notes, the other half to be a pdf). So far, Typora is the only software I've used that gets math editing right. But I'm slowly working to fix that! [1,2] [1] https://github.com/benrbray/prosemirror-math https://github.com/benrbray/prosemirror-math [2] https://benrbray.com/static/prosemirror-math/index.html https://benrbray.com/static/prosemirror-math/index.html (only tested in chrome)

thesuitonym 6y ago

If it's all just plain text, you can grep -a to find all of your 1:1s with Bob. It's not as pretty as some overengineered electron app, sure, but it will get you what you want.

infogulch 6y ago
"`grep -a 'Bob 1:1'` Hm, not as much as I expected. Maybe spaces? `grep -a 'Bob 1 : 1'` there's a few, maybe any number of spaces? `grep -aP 'Bob 1\s{0,}:\s{0,}1'` Oh I could have spelled it out `grep -a 'Bob one on one'` Or it could be in a different order `grep -a '1:1 with Bob'` ... diff --git a/2020-08-09.md b/2020-08-09.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c599ee6 --- /dev/null +++ b/2020-08-09.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +* Set up one on one again with bob on 2020-08-24 13:00. I thought I set one up + with him for next week already but I can't seem to find it. +* I figured out some searches I can do to find one on ones: + + grep -a 'Bob 1:1' + grep -a 'Bob 1 : 1" + grep -aP 'Bob 1\s{0,}:\s{0,}1' + grep -a 'Bob one on one' + grep -a '1:1 with Bob'

agambrahma 6y ago

I use `org-journal` to have timestamped daily notes. If I think it's going to take more than a couple of minutes, I start a new .org and add bullet points to it (currently just dumping these in some canonical, indexed location, haven't felt the need for something fancier like org-roam yet)