From: Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com>
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On 11/17/20 6:47 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> The file is not under change control, but there are multiple backups.
>=20
> I'd call it a journal, or an engineering notebook.
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> 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.
>=20
> I've keyboard macros that open selected string as a URL, or as a file
> in a new buffer.
>=20

Thanks

Look into org-mode, it has all the above and quite a bit more. But be caref=
ul
it's a rabbit hole.

I can't quite ignore the projects, they come back again and again. They're =
the
thing I most need to find. I have projects dating back to 2016 at this poin=
t
and they're consuming 88M of text.

My home machine is a bit better in that I have the notebooks a bit more org=
anized.
I can also convert them to HTML and post them to my web pages. I can use go=
ogle to
search those (no proprietary information there). I can't do that with my wo=
rk notes.

Right now the notes system works well but I am failing at organizing them. =
I may
need to do better with keywords though a lot of my work covers multiple key=
words.
I also have all my notebooks linked at a main notebook so I can find them. =
But it
is the specific information inside that's the difficult part to find now.

Mine isn't under change control yet either (I won't go into why, grumble gr=
umble
grumble).

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