I really enjoy the obsidian daily notes feature for this [1]. It's a dedicated button to create a new note with a title of your choosing. I typically do YYYY-MM-DD d, so 2024-12-1 mon.<p>I'm not sure about the time tracking though. Is this more for people working on contract for billing? I see the value in having the data but collecting the data seems difficult.<p>[1] <a href="https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Daily+notes" rel="nofollow">https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Daily+notes</a>
This reminds me of the dead simple .LOG feature in notepad:<p><a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/258545/how-to-use-notepad-to-create-a-dated-log-or-journal-file/" rel="nofollow">https://www.howtogeek.com/258545/how-to-use-notepad-to-creat...</a>
It starts to become a burden to open these files to make entries, so you create a terminal alias to do it. Then writing the entries becomes tedious so you make a macro to write a timestamp and put you in edit mode so you can just start typing the entry. Then you move computers and it gets tiresome moving the files around.<p>- The Wails of Sisyphus, author unknown
I just use Logseq (+ syncthing for sync) with extensive tagging (thousands of tags added a year) + a random Pomodora app that keeps records and descriptions of each Pomadora. Simple and effective
I like the idea of a stream of knowledge in one file, I usually used the Saved Messages in Telegram for that.<p>I'd rather use Markdown though, for the formatting capabilities alone.
I do pretty much the same with a file that I called worklog.txt<p>Days separated with a blank line, and starting with date.
Then I use initial spaces to differentiate between task, comments on this task and what is needed to do to finish the task.<p>Pretty easy to keep it consistent, and the use of spaces allow to easily identify the order of importance in each subset.
for command lists i moved away from notes just create long and descriptive aliases on my shell rc file which i already move everywhere anyway.<p>with the extra advantage of recalling them with tabtab instead of never remembering to read said notes :)
I have been using Gollum[1] for git based wiki. Impressed so far with its simplicity.
[1]<a href="https://github.com/gollum/gollum">https://github.com/gollum/gollum</a>
Still using and paying for noteplan for a few years now. Works really well, and storage and syncing can be done anywhere (local, dropbox, icloud, whatever)