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Tangentially related. I have fairly unorganized folder with a ton of markdown journal entries, notes, observations, shopping lists, etc. I would like to go thro
by reidjs 5y ago
Tangentially related. I have fairly unorganized folder with a ton of markdown journal entries, notes, observations, shopping lists, etc. I would like to go through organizing, archiving, and editing these entries.
Has anyone done something like that before? How did you do it in a sane way? Do you just start at the end and work forwards? Do you have some kind of #tagging system and then you applied something like elasticsearch or sqlite to filter them?
- blackkat 5y agoJust went through this process myself with a similar rag-tag collection of snippets. I used the zettlekasten process and a plug-in for visual studio code to help with the organization of said information. Have a look and see if it works for you.
- reidjs 5y agoI'm looking into Foam, thanks for putting a name to the process.
- codazoda 5y agoI've never gone back and logged old notes but I did start doing something that's worked well for me... I log, "stray thoughts". I put these in a physical notebook but Google Keep or Apple Notes works just as well. Anything goes and everything goes in the same place. At the beginning of my day, I "translate" my hastily written thoughts into more complete notes in a flat text file. Each thought is written on a single line in a way that I could read and understand it out of context. I use hash tags to categorize and to link other ideas (by line number). I also created a biblio.txt file that has URLs, names, book titles, and other references in it. I use curly braces to link a note to a reference. Example: Pencils are longer lasting than pens. #324 #327 #writing {26} The real magic happens when I use my text editors search feature to research all my previous thoughts about something in my flat text file.
- reidjs 5y agoHow do you handle multi-line thoughts? Can your system do hyperlinking and filtering by one or more tags?
- eric-hu 5y agoI use a VSCode plugin called Dendron for this. It provides some commands to operate over notes, like renaming, for instance. https://www.dendron.so/ https://www.dendron.so/
- ridiculous_lol 5y agoHave you considered Obsidian? https://obsidian.md/ https://obsidian.md/
- xk3 5y agoI would keep the files separate and just use JoHnNy dEcImAl https://johnnydecimal.com/ https://johnnydecimal.com/