My productivity app is 2 text files and a wiki

~/scratch

The stuff I'm working on right now. Can be deleted, or appended to if I want to save it for later.

~/worklog

Daily entries about what I did and what I want to do. The syntax I use is:

2024-02-19

* thing I did
- thing I wanted to do yesterday

2024-02-18

* thing I did

Easy enough to add an entry in Vim, either use

:r!date -I

or copy the previous day's entry and use

CTRL+x

on the day.

a wiki

I save whatever long-form notes on the corporate wiki, but for personal stuff I have a dokuwiki instance. This (I hope) helps my notes be discoverable but is usually not super useful to anyone other than me.

What I did previously

Strategies I used in the past:

Log all the things in a ticket, but this wasn't super relevant for personal work
Keep everything in a notes.org file, but it large enough to make emacs choke.

So now I sorta have the best of all worlds,

I have a personal place for my ~~error messages~~ notes
I can search pretty quickly between what I'm doing now and what I did in the past
I don't have to think about what to say during standup