Ask HN: How you maintain your daily log?

• redframes

  10 295 1.4 Python

  General Purpose Data Manipulation Library

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• todo.txt

  18 2,222 0.0

  ‼️ A complete primer on the whys and hows of todo.txt.

  

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• pter

  1 78 6.5 Python

  Manage your todo.txt in a commandline user interface (TUI)

• obsidian-releases

  1,650 7,901 9.9 JavaScript

  Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

  

• logseq

  544 29,514 9.9 Clojure

  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.

  

• espanso

  231 9,083 8.3 Rust

  Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

  

• MarvinAPI

  46 85 3.6

  API documentation for the Amazing Marvin productivity tool

  

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• org-journal

  12 1,208 7.3 Emacs Lisp

  A simple org-mode based journaling mode

I use org-mode with org-journal https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal

What's nice about this workflow is when I create TODO items and don't finish them for a day it transfers over to the next day.

• xit

  24 1,028 0.0

  A plain-text file format for todos and check lists

• syncthing-android

  1,233 3,008 9.2 Java

  Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  

• org-diary

  3 5 2.8 Emacs Lisp

  Easily maintain a simple work-log / journal with the use of org-mode

* etc

So with that in mind I have an emacs org-file, which has a standard set of headers which are inserted in a single file, beneath today's date.

I use the following emacs package to make that easy to manage:

* https://github.com/skx/org-diary

With that in place I get something like this automatically:

      * 31/08/2022

• obsidian-git

  85 5,731 8.5 TypeScript

  Backup your Obsidian.md vault with git

I've used the same system for about 8 years. I have a folder of Markdown files labeled "diary"; in that folder are files named YYYY-MM-DD.md. I use these files as a daily scratchpad, recording what needs to be done, what I accomplished, and notes from meetings, conversations, etc.

I originally created this system when I was using vimwiki, but it is compatible with Obsidian's Daily Notes feature too (a big advantage to using A Folder of Markdown Files as a knowledge base). In fact, the two can share a diary without undue effort.

Obsidian does charge for sync, but you don't have to use their sync service. You can sync yourself using syncthing, dropbox, or whatever you like. I use git to sync, with the obsidian-git plugin[1].

[1] https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git

• NotePlan_Themes

  76 78 0.0

  Official collection of custom themes for NotePlan 3

If you’re on a Mac, I recommend NotePlan. It’s perfect for daily logs and supports markdown. It also syncs with iPhone via your iCloud account.

https://noteplan.co/

• todomvc

  60 28,470 7.6 JavaScript

  Helping you select an MV* framework - Todo apps for React.js, Ember.js, Angular, and many more

  

I built my own To Do website, custom domain, hosted on pi (but I have since moved it to digital ocean hosting).

It's basically a toy website that I used to try out web frameworks. In my case I tried out Python's Django and Flask. Other people have done the same in a variety of languages and frameworks - check out https://todomvc.com/

It has the colors, font, work-flow, features that I want.

• GoNoteGo

  4 71 4.8 Python

  Go Note Go is a note-taking system for when you're on the go, with a focus on driving and camping.

• connote

  1 2 10.0 Go

  📝 connote is a dead-simple console-based note taking tool.

I built https://github.com/spy16/connote with similar problems in mind when it comes to note-taking. It does not have all the features you are talking about though.

It's more of a command-line note-organizer tool that makes it slightly easier to index and manage bunch of markdown files.

• Code_Browser_49

  1 0 10.0

  Code Browser 4.9 + User Theme + User Scripts

You can do useful things with Code Browser, it has folding and links. Aka, it is the simplest possible form of a hypertext. As it is just text, things can easily be scripted.

https://tibleiz.net/code-browser/download.html

I have kept an older, personally preferred version of that Editor on my GitHub Repo, unfortunately it does not perform stable on Linux and I have not been able to compile it on that system, in order to fix the bugs.

https://github.com/nilslindemann/Code_Browser_49/blob/master...

Here is a video showing how it works (my older version + scripts):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU4ThIJ6eKc

I also use this editor for code, it gives me the expressiveness I need, but its comments make the code look terrible in other editors.

I wish these features were available in other text editors. For someone used to Code Browsers folding capabilities, other editors are just awkward. But I guess other Coders will think the same when they see that they don't even get completion in Code Browser. Also, it is quite a niche editor.

• mdSilo

  29 242 4.4 TypeScript

  In-browser knowledge base on top of local plain-text files

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