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xit
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My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
I use the same system but with highlighting/formatting of https://xit.jotaen.net
I even learn how to create a plugin for the IntelliJ IDEA and created one for highlighting this format (love idea hotkeys and workflow).
- Staff / Principals / EMs - How do you organize your work and keep track of the multitude of streams, docs, notes etc?
- Ask HN: How you maintain your daily log?
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Show HN: Tuido, a Terminal Todo List
This is my personal todo app, which I made a while back after the original https://xit.jotaen.net/ post. tuido is written in go, with the bubbletea tui framework.
My daily workflow involves creating YYYY-MM-DD.md and taking notes, many of which are effectively low-level todos that fall below the threshold for more public or involved issue trackers. Problem was that these half-hazard todos weren't tracked at all.
After seeing the [x]it spec, it seemed clear that a little tooling could fix this. I've been reasonably happy with it.
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A plain-text file format for todos and check lists
There currently are a bunch of editor plugins and one CLI tool. You find a collection of tools (all third-party) linked from the project website: https://xit.jotaen.net
- It: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists
- Show HN: 一个纯文本文件格式的工作日程和检查清单 (Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists)
notes
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My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
I've been doing something similar for ~20 years at: https://github.com/nickjj/notes
- Running `notes` will open this month's notes for YYYY_MM.txt
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What is your approach to quick note taking during development?
I use a very command line focused approach with https://github.com/nickjj/notes.
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Keep a Knowledge Log
Since about 2001 I used YYYY-MM.txt plain text files and have a shell script to help create notes in the most friendly way I could think of from the command line at https://github.com/nickjj/notes.
Totally works fine for a knowledge log when you're streaming high level details. I still use it today.
But when you want to really go all-in with in-depth notes it's tricky because in 1 month's time if you're hardcore deep in the woods of learning, applying and using something you're going to end up with hundreds of concepts from an assorted set of tools and it kind of stinks to have all of that info sitting in 1 file. Think about using something like Kubernetes. That's really Kubernetes, Kustomize / Helm, EKS, various cloud hosting details (networking, etc.), Terraform and ton of super useful commands / context. Details you for sure want recorded for later.
For this type of info I've been building up a knowledge base with https://obsidian.md/. It's really nice and I highly recommend it. It's been working well for keeping things reasonably categorized without wasting a lot of time on the details around keeping links and tags up to date. It also has Vim mode that's good enough where day to day writing feels natural.
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Show HN: Then – Understand how you spend your time and what influences your mood
Did you end up automating the entries?
For example, I have a command line note taking script at https://github.com/nickjj/notes.
It creates a YYYY-MM-DD.txt file and doesn't include time stamps but it would be a 1 line change to make each entry get timestamped. I didn't do that because personally I'm more interested in monthly notes not per minute.
But I do think removing the barrier of creating entries is an important step with jotting things down, this way you can focus on what you want to write and not the boilerplate.
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Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
A whole bunch of little things, mainly command line tools.
Most of them are open source and also have extensive documentation and a screencast video going over them.
In no specific order:
- https://github.com/nickjj/notes
- https://github.com/nickjj/invoice
- https://github.com/nickjj/wait-until
And a few recent little scripts to solve specific things:
- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-ffmpeg-to-get-an-mp3s-d...
- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-shell-script-to-keep-a-bunc...
- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/bash-aliases-to-prepare-recor...
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Show HN: Note, my simple command line note taking app
Along similar lines, nickjj also has a similar (but bash) notes script at:
https://github.com/nickjj/notes
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Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
While I don't use it personally there's: https://obsidian.md/
It's cross platform and works offline. You write markdown and it produces a visual graph of your data. It supports interlinking notes, tags and images too.
Plain text notes[0] work best for me but I'd probably use Obsidian if I wanted to see things visually. When I tried it out briefly it was really solid.
[0]: https://github.com/nickjj/notes
What are some alternatives?
logseq - A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
neatroff - Neatroff troff clone
vimwiki - Personal Wiki for Vim
ping-heatmap - A tool for displaying subsecond offset heatmaps of ICMP ping latency
todo.md - TODO.md file format - todomd.org
pdftilecut - pdftilecut lets you sub-divide a PDF page(s) into smaller pages so you can print them on small form printers.
GitJournal - Mobile first Note Taking integrated with Git
dockly - Immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers and services
ConsoleJournal
shpotify - A command-line interface to Spotify.
zim-desktop-wiki - Main repository of the zim desktop wiki project
wireguird - wireguard gtk gui for linux