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> I use a Siri shortcut to log to a text file with my ideas list, which is ~3k lines long right now. If you don't mind, can you describe this system?
by qup 4y ago
> I use a Siri shortcut to log to a text file with my ideas list, which is ~3k lines long right now.
If you don't mind, can you describe this system?
- surprisetalk 4y agoOn iOS, there's a shortcuts app that enables you to automate things. I have a shortcut for the following: Receive Any input from Share Sheet, Quick Actions If there's no input Ask For Text | Append Shortcut input to Documents/inbox.txt (make new line) Every morning I sort lines from my inbox file into todo.txt, ideas.txt, calendar, etc. It's pretty much a modified version of GTD: [1] https://hamberg.no/gtd https://hamberg.no/gtd I have one idea per line in my ideas.txt file, so I use the following to pick some random ideas: cat ideas.txt | shuf | head -n 20 Reviewing old ideas is all about cross-pollination. With fresh eyes, I'll sometimes append a small insight to the line, or delete ideas that have lost their magic. When ideas get too large to fit on a single line, I break them out into unpublished essays. And if I work on them long enough, eventually I publish them :) --- Whoa, what a coincidence! I just checked my ideas file, and I'm exactly at 3333 lines. cat ideas.txt | wc -l 3333