My simple knowledge management and time tracking system

whytai · 2024-11-14T22:45:57 1731624357

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.

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.

[1] https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Daily+notes

packetlost · 2024-11-14T23:38:23 1731627503

The task plugin for Obsidian allows tracking time to completion iirc. If you're billing hourly for clients or trying to use it as a stand-in for a stop-watch it could be useful. I personally don't use it though

1970-01-01 · 2024-11-15T02:49:57 1731638997

This reminds me of the dead simple .LOG feature in notepad:

https://www.howtogeek.com/258545/how-to-use-notepad-to-creat...

grantc · 2024-11-14T22:23:02 1731622982

I too save information that may have future value in a textfile. I too am managing knowledge!

TOGoS · 2024-11-15T03:28:04 1731641284

Let's all submit blog posts about our notes files and see how many HN front pages we can fill.

zelphirkalt · 2024-11-14T23:53:54 1731628434

Org-mode! There. I said it. Now this thread has the obligatory post.

tiou · 2024-11-15T02:31:55 1731637915

Yes, I have been using org-mode for task management for over a decade, enjoying all the advantages of plain text.

gexla · 2024-11-15T02:15:04 1731636904

Right, any knowledge not in Org-mode is not really knowledge.

TechDebtDevin · 2024-11-14T23:51:09 1731628269

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

jrrrp · 2024-11-15T01:19:07 1731633547

How do you manage having thousands of tags? What is your use case? I quite quickly moved away from them because I couldn't have a strict/normalised system for it. E.g., I would end up with #a, #as, #<synonym of a>, #parent/as, etc. After a while of this, it would either reduce to nothing better than keyword search, or the effort of keeping track of existing tags and the "right" tags would prevent me from tagging at all.

1oooqooq · 2024-11-14T22:40:45 1731624045

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.

with the extra advantage of recalling them with tabtab instead of never remembering to read said notes :)

a1o · 2024-11-14T22:43:13 1731624193

What is that keyboard on the top image? Looks beautiful!

gn0meavp · 2024-11-14T23:15:13 1731626113

Goldtouch Ergonomic Keyboard