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I recently switched from a daily journal/to-do list to a weekly one. I have been surprised just how much it has helped me to keep things moving that otherwise
by bloopernova 2y ago
I recently switched from a daily journal/to-do list to a weekly one.
I have been surprised just how much it has helped me to keep things moving that otherwise might have been neglected.
My platform of choice is Emacs, org-mode, and org-journal, but I imagine the workflow is similar to Obsidian.
Each day is a top level heading, its to-do and journal items are 2nd level headings. Journal entries are timestamped, to-do items have a state of TODO/PROG/DONE and a timestamped log is kept logging state transitions.
Unfinished to-do items move to the new day automatically when it is created. Completed items are left in previous days, and displayed in a fainter coloured text.
- bloopernova 2y agoOne thing that seems to help me is that the to-do items are interspersed between journal entries. This feels like it gives me more context around what happened on a given day, or around a specific task. The weekly journal also serves as a store for those useful snippets I find, like "command to access an AWS EC2 via session manager with automatic bash execution".
- Atiscant 2y agoWould you be willing to share your config for this setup?
- bloopernova 2y agoAbsolutely! This gist is a barebones init.el that just loads org-mode and org-journal via straight.el: https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/87518aee8a0fbc9c9050723a97b44799 https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/87518aee8a0fbc9c905072... For those with existing Emacs init setups, lines 31 through 45 have the relevant settings.
- Atiscant 2y agoThanks a lot!