It’s our ‘external brain’ as it were, a place where we can dump information and sort it afterwards. We’re moving to another country next month and, as part of that, I’ve set up a stack of notebooks in Evernote that I’ve shared with my wife. However, I haven’t used it for a while as I’ve been trying to get to grips with using Evernote. Reply via email or office hours RSS feed Newsletter Office hours EmailĬontent licensed under CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted.Before Christmas I organised a productivity-focused call for some of us at the Mozilla Foundation.* One tool I recommended was Notational Velocity, a service that syncs with Simplenote. (I’ve already been planning to rewrite the backend engine for this site - it’s old and decrepit - so this is a fortuitous time to come across this idea.) I’ve also enjoyed reading through the rest of Andy’s notes, by the way. (I think long ago I used to do it to some degree, but somewhere along the way a fit of self-consciousness took it out of me.) No luck yet finding the original Robin Sloan source, but if any of you come across it, let me know. Yes! I too love it, and I’ll be doing more of it here from now on. I love this kind of communication personally, but I suspect it also creates more invested, interesting followings over the long term. I want to see you choose the color palette. This is the opposite of the Twitter account which mostly posts announcements of finished work: it’s Screenshot Saturday it’s giving a lecture about the problems you’re pondering in the shower it’s thinking out loud about the ways in which your project doesn’t work at all. One of my favorite ways that creative people communicate is by “working with their garage door up,” to steal Robin Sloan’s phrase. #creativity #meta #notes #working-in-publicĬame across Andy Matuschak’s note on working in public: Reply via email or office hours Sunday, July 26, 2020 I’ve written out plans for a new version of Slash, my blog engine, that will easily support notes as well as blog posts and web pages. (And by probably I mean almost certainly, because I am an inveterate toolmaker at heart. While that would be doable with the website engine I have now, it wouldn’t be very ergonomic, so I’m probably going to retool. Not sure yet exactly what form that will take, but at the moment I’m thinking it’ll probably be the notes system I mentioned. I’m looking forward to adopting more of these practices myself. ![]() It also nicely parallels the working in public idea I posted about recently. Very closely related to digital gardens, of course, but a different angle to look at it from. (See Mike Caulfield’s The Garden and the Stream and Swyx’s Digital Garden Terms of Service for more in this vein.)Įxploring some of these gardens led me to the idea of learning in public (also see Gift Egwuenu’s Learning in Public talk). I’m sure some small part of it is just nostalgia for the old days of the web, but the idea seems good and solid nonetheless. I recently came across Maggie Appleton’s article on digital gardens. #digital-gardens #learning #learning-in-public #meta #notes #slash #web #working-in-public Reply via email or office hours Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Maybe at some point I’ll switch from Ag to ripgrep, but that’s about the only change I can think of right now. (Thus the plans to move over to those for the other tools.) It too is a small app, with around 500 lines of code. I’m happy with the plain text storage and with FastAPI, though. The futureĪrc is still pretty new, so we’ll see where continued usage takes us. I’ve been using Arc daily, to keep track of things that I want to be able to refer to easily later on normal notes usage, nothing too exciting here. On my phone, I have it saved to my dock as a PWA. On my laptop, I have it open in Firefox as a pinned tab. The search results page uses Ag under the hood (since all the notes are just in a flat directory for now, it was super easy and took maybe ten minutes to implement): How I use Arc The search page lists the twenty most recently modified notes (dummy data): By default it opens to a blank note screen, but that’s boring, so instead you get to see what it looks like when editing a note (with the bar at the top indicating the text isn’t saved - I originally implemented autosave but soon realized that I prefer manual): Notes are just text files, stored in a directory with UUIDs for filenames. And just to be clear, this is distinct from the digital garden notes idea I talked about earlier. ![]() It’s my latest app, too - I wrote it around a month ago, as a replacement for Apple Notes (to try to get back to more of a Notational Velocity or Simplenote kind of thing). The name is short for Archive, as in an archive of notes. The last entry in the navel-gazing series talking about my personal productivity tools.Īrc is my private notes app. #arc #coding #fastapi #notes #plain-text #tools
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