Notes

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.

Terms

• YYYY 4-digit year

• DDD zero-padded 3-digit ordinal day of the implied year

Searching

Most modern operating systems do full text search by default.

A prime workspace

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

In a project

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

Reading

• Ordinal Date (Wikipedia)
• ISO 8601
• Evidence https://www.al3rez.com/todo-txt-journey
• Evidence https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/