This reminds me of the dead simple .LOG feature in notepad:
https://www.howtogeek.com/258545/how-to-use-notepad-to-creat...
I really enjoy the obsidian daily notes feature for this [1]. It's a dedicated button to create a new note with a title of your choosing. I typically do YYYY-MM-DD d, so 2024-12-1 mon.
I'm not sure about the time tracking though. Is this more for people working on contract for billing? I see the value in having the data but collecting the data seems difficult.
The task plugin for Obsidian allows tracking time to completion iirc. If you're billing hourly for clients or trying to use it as a stand-in for a stop-watch it could be useful. I personally don't use it though
I too save information that may have future value in a textfile. I too am managing knowledge!
Let's all submit blog posts about our notes files and see how many HN front pages we can fill.
Org-mode! There. I said it. Now this thread has the obligatory post.
Right, any knowledge not in Org-mode is not really knowledge.
Yes, I have been using org-mode for task management for over a decade, enjoying all the advantages of plain text.
I just use Logseq (+ syncthing for sync) with extensive tagging (thousands of tags added a year) + a random Pomodora app that keeps records and descriptions of each Pomadora. Simple and effective
How do you manage having thousands of tags? What is your use case? I quite quickly moved away from them because I couldn't have a strict/normalised system for it. E.g., I would end up with #a, #as, #<synonym of a>, #parent/as, etc. After a while of this, it would either reduce to nothing better than keyword search, or the effort of keeping track of existing tags and the "right" tags would prevent me from tagging at all.
Well I try to make sure each topic/page has a unique tag, and then I tag keywords within that. So within a page I will tag with consistent generalizable tags like #docker, #blog, #security, #auth and then underneath those I will have more specific tags like #repository_name #author_name #equipment_name.
Its more of a tiered tagging style where there are more generalizable tags are parents of more specialised tags.
It might not be the best for everyone but my brain works well with it. I can usually derive what the parent tag would be from whatever topic I'm searching back up and then find the children notes/tags from there.
It is essentially keyword search that just somewhat organized.
What is that keyboard on the top image? Looks beautiful!
Goldtouch Ergonomic Keyboard
for command lists i moved away from notes just create long and descriptive aliases on my shell rc file which i already move everywhere anyway.
with the extra advantage of recalling them with tabtab instead of never remembering to read said notes :)