Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Your Thoughts

Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo... by dr_kiszonka on Saturday July 13, 2024 @01:00AM (#40951882)

I use different editors for different purposes, e.g., Obsidian for long form and planning, OneNote for meetings.

I wouldn't overthink it, though, and just use the simplest tools available. I use Sublime Text 3 with a few shortcuts to add the current timestamp, etc. and log everything in a long file. I was too ambitious in the past and wanted to learn how to use Emacs for everything, but it just held me back, and I ended up without any notes.

Also, my unfortunately named thread from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33359329

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Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo... by phoh on Saturday July 13, 2024 @03:43AM (#40952506)

do you have a decent system to get entries between(both in and out) Obsidian and OneNote?

I have a similar system to you, but getting things in and out of OneNote is such a massive pain.

Everything I have tried requires significant reformatting (even Word).

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Re:Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Yo... by dr_kiszonka on Saturday July 13, 2024 @12:32PM (#40955006)

I usually don't move notes to and from OneNote. I tried this Obsydian importer, and it is OK for my meeting notes in terms of formatting. However, it has a bug that strips slashes from page titles, which is a bit of an issue for me because I always add dates to titles (e.g., 7/13/2024).

With a few good examples, maybe some LLM could help you with reformatting?

Good luck!

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