From: James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org>
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I've been using emacs in text mode for a few decades.  A single file
for work and play.  New stuff is put at the top.  I've macros for
inserting the date and time.  I link out to the filesystem for code
greater than a line or two.

My current file was started 2009-11-03 when I joined OLPC, and is
112597 lines as of today.  That's about 30 lines a day.

Whenever I've struggled to find something, when I do find it I add the
keywords that I had expected to find it with.  This tunes my search
practice to compensate for normal memory loss and reassociations.
Failed searches are inserted at top of the file; they are an activity
after all.

The file is not under change control, but there are multiple backups.

I'd call it a journal, or an engineering notebook.

Some projects have their own file, which ceases to be maintained once
the project becomes idle.  Usually no more than a few hundred lines
each, and about 132 of them on my system today.

I've keyboard macros that open selected string as a URL, or as a file
in a new buffer.

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James Cameron
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