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Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by ironchef on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:51AM (#23768973)
I do the same-ish thing. Main highlights on mine: 1) I start off the day with things I should be working on (samesies) 2) I use ### to demarcate different "working sessions" ... one for each meeting, etc. 3) I struggle with finding something that lets me: encrypt, search, big notes, and use multi platform easily :( Closest I've found was google keep so far .. but i hate relying on it like that. I'm pretty sure "something" plus encrypted sqlite will work once i find it. 4) I name it Today.YYYYMMDD ... I'm trying to get into the habit of retroing once a month, creating a Month.YYYYMMDD to try to be more reflective and understand high level impact I had and systemic issues I'm running into.

The number of times this has saved me time figuring out "Oh .. i saw that error before .. how did I fix it?" and "who did i talk to about X and what did they say" months to years later has proven to be super helpful and I will be continuing indefinitely.

Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by kozziollek on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:42PM (#23772233)
I started using Joplin https://joplinapp.org/ some time ago.

Open-source. Encrypted if you want. Synchronized using WebDAV (also Dropbox, NextCloud and OneDrive). Uses markdown. Has tags. And apps for everything (Windows/macOS/Linux/Android/iOS/terminal).

Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by elric on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @08:54AM (#23769373)
The monthly retro is a great idea. I think I'll be stealing that one, thanks!

I use Zettlr as a markdown editor, with the underlying directory being in git. It's not encrypted, though doing that should be pretty easy with something like EncFS.

Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by et1337 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:00AM (#23770526)
Standard Notes is my Google Keep replacement. Fully encrypted, straightforward business model, works great, apps available on iOS and Android.
Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by tristor on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:07PM (#23772571)
Thank you for this suggestion. I hadn't heard of Standard Notes before and had stopped using Evernote in 2016 to switch to just Markdown files on disk w/ Git. I've migrated everything into it and this looks pretty much perfect for what I need (better tag management would be my only ask).
Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by bryanmgreen on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:34AM (#23770907)
Thank you for the recommendation. Looks like it has all the security features I’m desperately missing from all Google products and would make their products an easy default go-to.
Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by ironchef on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:36PM (#23774967)
Thanks. That was next on my list :)
Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by jakecopp on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @08:27PM (#23775775)
Vimwiki works great for this! Hyperlinks and diary management, all plain text and able to be opened in anything.
Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by Linell on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:35PM (#23776158)
I can second using Vimwiki! I have mine set up to automatically sync with Gitlab every so often too, so it’s automatically backed up.
Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by ldavison on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:59PM (#23776264)
I use https://github.com/gitwatch/gitwatch to do this.

I'm curious if there is something you are using on mobile for vimwiki? I've been using termux on Android, which works well enough.

Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by Linell on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:49PM (#23776502)
Sadly I don’t have a solution for mobile. The truth is that I mostly use it on the computer though so it really hasn’t been a problem.

My backup method is pretty simple but it’s been silently chugging along for months now without a single hiccup. It’s just a git commit via cron job: https://thelinell.com/using-vimwiki/

Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by ytjohn on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:33AM (#23779031)
I've done similar. I used to use Quiver[1] for years. It's MacOS only. Then in October, I was forced onto a Windows machine for work. I tried Joplin as it was the closest in features, and it has built in encryption.

What I eventually ended up doing was moving to vscode. I use it my main IDE for the last couple years. I have a linux vm running for all my development, with vscode remote ssh.

- I keep a folder for each month - I have a file in each month called YYYYMM-dailies.md, level 2 headings for each day - Notes that grow too complex for the "dailies" get their own file in the folder. A number of these might get polished and copied into a document site somewhere. - Sometimes I'll make a subdirectory of "snips" with small scripts or pseudo-scripts (stuff to copy/paste) - The integrated shell lets me paste commands into my dev vm and copy the results back into my notes.

A feature of this is that while it's not really "synchronized", I can vscode-remote-ssh from multiple machines, or just ssh into the vm to get my notes. You can use rclone or keybase+rsync to backup the notes directory (or keybase's git if you want to check notes in).

Another

[1]: https://happenapps.com/

Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by solarkraft on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @08:16AM (#23769121)
There are many markdown based journal programs, some with encryption. Do these not work for you?
Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by ironchef on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:38PM (#23774986)
My bits were on MacOS, Linux, Win, iOS, and required usage w/o internet (so I could work on airplanes, etc.).. so _something_ was always missing (between those + encrypted + searching).
Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by greymalik on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:36AM (#23769731)
Can you suggest any in particular?
Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by shekhardesigner on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:21AM (#23770114)
My personal choice for markdown notes is https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes
Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by Linell on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:55PM (#23776243)
If you’re a Vim user, Vimwiki is awesome:

- https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

- https://thelinell.com/using-vimwiki/

Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by solarkraft on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:06PM (#23775226)
I don't have much experiences with them (flat text files aren't my style), but a friend seems happy with Joplin.

A HN search illustrates the amount of markdown note apps available: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by Thorentis on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:31PM (#23776139)
Joplin would be perfect if it allowed quick inter-note linking. Obsidian and Zettlr seem to do this much better. But for journaling I love Joplin.