I’ve been journaling my daily work using Logseq for the past year or so. It has transformed how I work. It’s a log of the little wins I’ve tackled, notes on what was the route to success, and links to where the solution is, whether that is a Confluence doc, a PR on GitHub.
It is also a “memorium pool”, I no longer have to stress about remembering things. It has a powerful note linking mechanism that is automatic, I can find related notes easily and visualise how they are related to each other.
If something comes up during the day, I can tag it as /TODO and it will add that note on a calendar view so I can quickly glance if I have things I need to take care next week.
Give it a go. Remind yourself you win every day. Remind yourself that things do take time. Remind yourself that what you do today matters.
This post is not sponsored. It’s just me grateful for open-source. Want start your journaling today? Go here: https://logseq.com/
Does anyone use #emacs as a personal wiki, or do you prefer something like #tiddlywiki?
Chatting with a friend who thinks that it would be a lot of work to configure #orgmode as a wiki, but I think it pretty much has all the features, right?
I'm a recent convert to tab-bar-mode in #emacs. #Denote file (hence buffer) names are really long and don't fit on tabs. I just learned about denote-rename-buffer.el, which "provides a minor mode to automatically rename the buffer of an existing file, such that it reflects the file’s TITLE field." Super handy. https://protesilaos.com/emacs/denote-changelog
I don't really get what the hell zettelkasten but I feel like I should really start using some sort of "second brain" software. I have a lot of thoughts!
Plain text notes are just the best. Almost nobody uses 'find' or 'fd' to query notes exclusively, but it's perfectly possible with metadata in the filename.
I presented “Emacs Turbo-Charges My Writing” at EmacsConf 2023 https://emacsconf.org/2023. I walk through my writing setup for #Emacs, going
through the workflow of writing in #OrgMode syntax with #Denote; and then
exporting to #Hugo. The text of this post pairs with the recorded conference
talk.
in other words federated isn't the best way to reproduce stackexchange where you need a silo, unlike mastodon for example, where less than 3% of mastodon users want to be part of archived search. i doubt the figures for lemmy or kbin would be any different.
i use #emacs & #denote to store info from the fediverse.
🔴 Today on #SystemCrafters Live, we'll take a look at the 2.0 release of Denote, a minimal yet highly customizable note taking package for Emacs! We'll walk through the extensive changelog and try out many of the new features to see if they might enable new note taking workflows.
I've just given #denote, a yet another #emacs note-taking solution, a trial. I was amazed how working such a simple notes environment can be relaxing. For anyone comfortable enough with Emacs I recommend giving denote a trial. You very well find the distraction free environment quite helpful for concentrating on developing thoughts rather than crafting systems of structured metadata. #pkm#notetaking https://protesilaos.com/emacs/denote
#emacs Very rude awakening using #orgroam out of the blue, tones of "Invalid ref" errors and end of file error during parsing 🙄 and the database won't finish synching anymore, causing Emacs (28.2 and 29.1) to choke.
I will move off org-roam eventually, I guess, but the timing of this mess is just very unfortunate.
Today we setup Denote and went through some of its main features. What I like about it:
It is major mode agnostic. You can use it with Markdown, Org, Plaintext or whatever you want
It can be used to organize any kind of files (i.e. your picture folder). Denote happily renames and tags your files any way you want
Denote supports Backlinks. You can even automatically insert the backlinks into a note using Dynamic Blocks. Example:
(#)+BEGIN: denote-backlinks
(#)+END:
By executing this block the backlinks are automatically inserted into the note. You have to put this in your config to make this work:
(require 'denote-org-dblock)
Denote does not implement features that are already in Emacs, i.e. Search. That's my challenge I had with Denote, but as it turned out, with a package like consult you can easily search either by filename with consult-find or through the content of all notes with consult-ripgrep.
While doing this we discovered that global-emojify-mode interfered with minibuffer completions so that Emacs always froze for a few seconds when starting a consult-find. We found it out by using the amazing Emacs profiler (profiler-start). So if you experience this, consider turning on emojify-mode selectively.
In our next session we'll talk about "Organizing with notes" on a non-technical level. Prot will share some of his experiences, because I'm notoriously disorganized.
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