This is my structure to taking notes and journaling on the computer.
My goals are simple tooling that can be read by any other app on a different layer outside the scope of this document.
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YYYY 4-digit year
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DDD zero-padded 3-digit ordinal day of the implied year
Most modern operating systems do full text search by default.
Create a folder/directory structure under the user's $HOME folder/directory:
workspace/
journal/
YYYY/
DDD-title-of-entry.md
2023/
001-new-years-day.md
002-we-take-advantage-of-how-filesystems-sort-numbers.md
069-watched-svb-fail-also-nice.md
100-today-i-explained-to-reddit-how-to-journal.md
reference/
# This repository
These can be any project that will generate a lot of artifacts
corporate-app-acme/
.local/
YYYY/
DDD-title-of-entry.md
2023/
001-new-years-day.md
002-we-take-advantage-of-how-filesystems-sort-numbers.md
069-watched-svb-fail-also-nice.md
100-today-i-explained-to-reddit-how-to-journal.md
- Ordinal Date (Wikipedia)
- ISO 8601
- Evidence https://www.al3rez.com/todo-txt-journey
- Evidence https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/
- Evidence https://ntietz.com/blog/using-an-engineering-notebook/
- Org Mode https://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html
- todo.txt http://todotxt.org/
- HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864134