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Re:Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information... by noir_lord on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @10:46AM (#12796841)
I do something similar but I gave up using org-mode (mostly because that was all I was using emacs for and I spent more time configuring the thing 'just so' than I did actually using it.

Now I just keep everything in plain text and aliased it to 'tj' (todays journal).

alias tj="touch ~/Dropbox/journal/$(date +%d-%m-%Y).org && code ~/Dropbox/journal/$(date +%d-%m-%Y).org"

Effortless backups as well (and as a side benefit the NSA now knows I need to look at better ways of handling css in packages pulled in from npm etc).

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information... by tapan_k on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @01:12PM (#12798341)
Perhaps old fashioned, but I fill up a page of TWSBI [1] every evening, using a Sheaffer Prelude [2].

[1] http://www.twsbi.com/collections/notebooks/products/twsbi-no...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Sheaffer-Prelude-Black-Featuring-Foun...

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information... by clappski on Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:46AM (#12804021)
I've never head of TWSBI, although I do enjoy Moleskine. Would you be able to give a comparison between them?
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Re:Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information... by tapan_k on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:55PM (#12822385)
Cannot comment on Moleskine as I've never used one. I am loving TWSBI notebooks [1]: the paper is thick, and does not feather or bleed with fountain pen ink. There is very little ghosting which makes it possible to use both sides of paper. Here [2] is a review I found helpful.

[1] http://www.twsbi.com/collections/notebooks

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RJkNfiP_ys

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information... by newfolder on Friday October 28, 2016 @06:02AM (#12814454)
The NSA are making backups of your backup. Double win.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information... by liuhenry on Monday October 31, 2016 @12:45AM (#12834364)
I've been using jrnl (https://github.com/maebert/jrnl) for this. Pretty similar idea - still plain text, but adds a CLI wrapper with a few more features.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information... by banterfoil on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @06:16PM (#12801181)
I am curious, what does the "code" alias link to? and why is it that you need to touch it before you edit it? wouldn't an editor do that for you?
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Re:Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information... by petetnt on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @06:27PM (#12801270)
It's the name of the binary for Visual Studio Code.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux

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