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For those who use Emacs, org-capture is probably the way to go: https://orgmode.org/manual/Capture.html#Capture

Plus org-clocking, easy time keeping and also offers easy aggregation for reviews. It is really interesting to see after a while how much time was spend at various activities...

https://orgmode.org/manual/Clocking-commands.html

here's an example of the kind of summary information you can generate over time:

https://snap.philsnow.io/2018-07-16T11-15-11.9p5nrv1j2ohavi6...

I once was really good about keeping notes like this, but I stopped when I couldn't integrate it very well with the flavor-of-the-day bug tracker my team used.

Org caputre is great. Also, helm-org-rifle is an excellent way to quickly find something in your notes:

https://github.com/alphapapa/helm-org-rifle

You can give mulitple search terms to search for them in any order with instant results when typing.

Honestly even without using org-capture, org mode is perfect for a "did.org" file.

Yep. I'm amazed by how many different hacks, tools, and one-offs get proposed in threads like this when an amazing plain-text note/organization/GTD/life management ecosystem already exists and is supported by endless configurability. Of course, we're talking about org-mode.

(Religious org-mode user for approximately four years.)

I'm perpetually saddened because I work in aerospace where the IT policies are quite restrictive due to security clearances and whatnot, so I'm stuck on windows and can't install emacs :(

Every few months I toy with the idea of implementing a poor man's org-mode in VBA.

Emacs doesn't have to be installed on Windows, strictly speaking... you can run it out of a subdirectory without using an installer. IIRC the Windows installer just sets up some registry keys that make life a bit more convenient, but they aren't blockers to actually running the application.

That's tough, especially because emacs + org-mode is most usable when combined with a few melpa packages. Even if you could get emacs installed, you'd (probably) want melpa packages to make it more usable.

Is there a great intro to org mode that isn’t the docs? (Never used emacs but tempted because all I’ve heard of org mode)

And for those who don't use emacs, starting to use emacs & then adopting org-capture is probably the best way to go!

I mean, you can tortuously gin up some plaintext format by hand, or you can use Org mode; you can tortuously gin up a skin over git by hand, or you can use Magit; you can tortuously gin up a skin over wget/curl by hand, or you can just use eww.

hadn’t heard of these emacs addons. Commenting to save this.

You can combine org-mode with deft for quick note organization and lookup. https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/

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