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Trying out a new note-taking method while in meetings and talking with folks in my new job. Storing them all in a git repo in markdown...
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One of the unanticipated but really nice features of this is as soon as I hear something I need to do, I put the todo down in place...
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And it can live anywhere, because I can search the repo globally for
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When someone mentions a project I don't know about yet I can bold it and track it with a regex search
/\*\*(.*)\*\*/
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If someone gives me an idea for a project I might want to take on, I can italicize it and regex on that -
/\*\*\*(.*)\*\*\*/
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I've a file for top level assessments, complete & hanging definitions, and overall notes, but also a folder structure to basically adhoc CRM
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Completed tasks get pulled into their own folder & docs so I can track progress. I can rely on Git to tell me where they came from
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I've found its helped find convergences on particular topics or issues. Hard to know how well it'll work long term, but here's hoping!
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It would be a cool side project to build a little rendering engine around the folder that supplements how I use it. One day mby.
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I've used more complex & 'professional' organizational tools, but they always get overcomplicated and then I'd end up using them less.
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Goal was to simplify to basic needs. I need to tool to: help me remember things, keep track of convo threads with people, run my todos
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So far pretty useful in that regard.