Daily Note-Taking Systems

I do this with just an ever expanding notes file. Works!

At work I maintain a running txt file that acts as a journal, a time tracker to help with timesheets, and a scratchpad for real-time notes (meeting notes, action items, email drafts, code/config). I start a new txt file each year. Each week starts with a header with some goals for the week. Each day follows a similar pattern of highlighting priorities for the day.Since it's txt file it opens quickly, is easily scannable and searchable. I will sometimes tag entries with phrases that

I've been doing something very similar to this for the past year and a half. I was inspired by one of my coworkers who has a long running list of notes in a google doc.I run "vim `date -I`", which opens a file for the current day in the form `YYYY-MM-DD`. I keep it in a git repo that I commit and push to every time I add a note.I separate topics using `===` surrounded by blank lines. When I go back to update a topic I already wrote something about, I separate it with `--` su

This might sound crazy but I have one giant .md file with an entry per day with notes of whatever I was working on.Days are divided with (-) character like:-----------------At the start of each day I just write a list of todo's and check them throughout the day.I then copy them to the next day if not completed.Have been doing this for several years now. I always keep it open as a tab in the IDE.Will periodically truncate the file and archive it to avoid getting to big.

Do you use something like Obsidian/Evernote to do this?

I'm the same, a lot of personal projects have notes on paper.But I've been keeping a daily work-journal for the past few years, and that has been very handy. I have one org-mode file for each company I've worked in, and each day I insert a new block with headings that make sense "Meetings", "Stories/Tickets/Projects", "Problems", etc.I make notes of commands, recipes, and tag things literally so get an integrated tag-cloud and this is

I followed a similar path.Nowadays I just use the Notes app from my mac. I keep a primary note named "daily" where I write at the top the date and everything interesting for the day. If there is anything important enough I want to keep it for more days I move it to a separate note. If I realize I need something I did 3 weeks ago it is easy to find too. It syncs with my phone, works offline, and imposes as little structure as possible which is something I like for the reasons you ex

I end up taking notes in a text file daily, with un-resolved or in-progress items at the bottom. They get pushed downward linearly until they are finished, at which point they get immortalized in the greppable daily log that gets deposited above my "working area" somewhere toward the tail of the file. Requires a lot of discipline and doesn't have a lot of structure, but having the "working area" next to the journal has served me well. I use vimwiki[1] for most of the edi

This is such a valuable recommendation. I've been doing the same since 20+ years back. On and off I've been bad at it, but I always end up coming back and continuing.I think of it as more of a daily diary though, I mix random notes of things I've done, thought of doing, or interesting links and/or command-lines I've found useful so I don't have to reinvent them as often in the future.It has proven to be immensely useful for myself. Can highly recommend!My w

I've a notes.txt file that follows me around in most jobs I do. It's more a journal than a planner. Sometimes I put TODO in, sometimes what to do when a change needs to be implemented so I don't forget. That works quite well as I can return to that later, or see what I was doing some months ago. It's in vim, which works well too for me as I'm already familiar with how to edit.One of the popular getting things done methods was to keep your stuff in one place, at least