a few GTD files in the top level, in.md, next.md, somedaymaybe.md One file per year for a basic daily log in (log/2022.md) this is where I do at least half of my notetaking and journaling. Plain text is great because it's small, portable, and I like being able to use grep against my note directory to find things. This means not many decisions to make first (deeply nested directories or tags), and not being bound to a certain application or having an internet connection. My main requirement is that it should be very easy to start writing the note. I host it on github and sync it between devices with syncthing. I also incorporate a very lean take on getting things done (GTD). I rarely render the markdown but I still find it useful for structuring my notes. I keep my life notes in plain text in a directory called 'notes', usually formatted with markdown. YMMV: I use something called low-key Anki where the only buttons used are 'Again' and 'Good.' I've been told this is similar to the Cornell Method, but with a lot more review. I also add new cards to review at other times of the day if I'm bored and want to kill five minutes. If I don't get up to an hour/hour-and-a-half, I add new cards to review until I get there. Might sound like a lot, but half of it is Spanish, and at least 15-20 minutes of it is done while shitting, so it's not like I would have been doing something else. I do an hour to an hour and a half of Anki every morning.

Things of only temporary importance get lumped into an 'ephemeral' subdeck, where cards get suspended/deleted with extreme prejudice. This works in a similar way live (like meetings and phone calls), but I'm taking notes with paper and pencil, and later extracting the facts from them for Anki. Then I read through it a second time trying to phrase every fact I encounter as question-answer pairs that go into a spreadsheet to be imported into an Anki subdeck for that thing.

Let’s talk! Leave a comment, and tell me about how you practice gratitude or focus on positive things in your life using your Bullet Journal.I'm journaling/free-writing to get extended/detailed ideas down that I've had, which consists of a bunch of text files in a directory that sometimes end up combined in subdirectories, often refer to each other, and are frequently appended to/refined.īut the main thing I'm doing note-wise is that first I read a thing through once, trying to carefully understand, but not necessarily commit to memory, everything before I move on. I love the added bonus of seeing an entire month filled up with good things that happened in my life! My current daily practice has some similarities to a gratitude journal, but it works much better for me. It never felt like it changed my attitude, experience or point of view.

As far as I can tell, this habit never had any effect on me. For several years, I kept a dedicated gratitude journal in my nightstand, and each night before bed I wrote down 3 or more things I was grateful for. The proof is right in front of me every day.Ī lot of people do some form of a gratitude journal, and I have tried this. I enjoy the focus on real events as opposed to ideas or abstract concepts because it makes the idea of good things happening in my life very real. Knowing that I need to fill in that calendar box every day has helped me notice and appreciate positive events in my daily life. Since I note good things that actually happened, my practice focuses me on concrete, real events that are actually happening in my life everyday. Even on the worst days, there is always something good to note. What I love about this practice is that it forces me to find at least one good thing about the day. I use my monthly calendar to record something good that happened each day. I use Google calendar for that, which I will cover in a future post. I don’t actually use my monthly calendar for scheduling. The image in this post is an a screenshot of my October 2016 calendar completely filled in. One of the things I have in my journal is a monthly calendar, and in this post I want to show you how I use it.

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