A Year of Developer Journals with jrnl.sh

Re:A Year of Developer Journals with jrnl.sh by atmosx on Friday December 01, 2017 @12:45PM (#15825637)

I keep an “engineering logbook”. I surely helps me put things into perspective, I can’t say that it made me more “productive”, but it sure raises awareness on issues and this is enough.

I prefer pen and paper by far, so I ordered a personalised notebook, it is pretty good looking, most wouldn't touch it, but I'm planning on doing a collection of them.

By personalised I mean that it has my name on it and reads "Engineering Logbook #1". I ordered this book from Stamford Notebooks[1]. No affiliation, but they're I'm planning to ask some customisations when I order "#2".

[1] https://www.stamfordnotebooks.co.uk/

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Re:A Year of Developer Journals with jrnl.sh by vanzorn on Friday December 01, 2017 @01:04PM (#15825777)

Ran out of ink, did we? Leucchterm 1917 notebooks are awesome for logging / bullet notebooks - especially the dot grid ones.

On the digital side, I was inspired to start using Org mode by following Sacha Chua's map approach: http://sachachua.com/blog/2014/01/tips-learning-org-mode-ema...

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Re:A Year of Developer Journals with jrnl.sh by atmosx on Friday December 01, 2017 @01:12PM (#15825826)

I used quite a few digital Journals. I still keep a personal, private one, encrypted with GPG using vim and some basic automation via shell. I rarely write there.

I like writing and have a lot to write about but I prefer physical journals by far... My handwriting is ugly too but I won't give up!

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Re:A Year of Developer Journals with jrnl.sh by 50CNT on Friday December 01, 2017 @08:45PM (#15829575)

Have you tried the palmer method[0] in regards to handwriting?

[0]http://palmermethod.com/

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Re:A Year of Developer Journals with jrnl.sh by atmosx on Saturday December 02, 2017 @05:43AM (#15831336)

Nope. Thanks for sharing, I'll definitely look at it, as I'm looking for ways to improve both my handwriting and note-taking.

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