Hello all. I’m looking for (a) program(s) to manage & document things in life. Mainly these features are what I need:
- Diary, random notes(like a wiki?) with version control
- TODO list, auto added to diary at that time period
- Ability to attach images and text files to those diary, notes
- Calendar with schedule synced with TODO
- Easy backup, preferably in plaintext or simple db
- Text search
Currently I’m using SeaMonkey and my phone(android) to manage calendar (so two separated ones), a paper note to write diaries and use dokuwiki for random notes. This setup is too complicated and isn’t productive at all.
I do think my requirements are kinda abstract, and there most likely isn’t a single program that can do all this. Although basic I’m a novice FreeBSD & Emacs+evil user so *nix-only or text-based utilities are okay. I’m not aware of any program that meets these needs, is there anything that resembles what I’m thinking? Thanks!
Nice! I understand org mode is fantastic, and more feature complete than todo.txt.
Obsidian was too web-based, for me, but I’ve heard good things.
I’ve configured my text editor (VSCodium), to add files to a folder called Journal in my home directory.
Every note file gets named with a two digit prefix for the current month. So currently,
07-[name of note].md. If I create the same note twice in the same month, my setup opens the existing note file. Sometimes I’ll have a couple of months05-foo.md,06-foo.mdthat match. Sometimes I’ll copy/paste to merge them, sometimes I’ll leave it.Every nine months or so, I scoop all the files into a separate backup folder named after the current year. This helps my full text searches focus on more recent notes, by default.
When I need to send someone my notes, all formal-like, I’ll use md2html and then an HTML to PDF converter.
I periodically sync my
~/Journalfolder to my home Network Attached Storage, which, itself, later backs up to a private AWS S3 bucket.Edit: Since you asked about version contol elsewhere. I used to religiously version control with
git, but lately I’ve found that the version history provided by my NAS is enough.Cool setup you got there! I just tried Obsidian and some of its features are great but I have to admit it’s too web-based for me. That file naming scheme seems quite good, I’ll take that in mind. What NAS do you use that also handles version controlling by itself? It’s a bit tedious to do a git commit every time after editing something so I was considering automating it but that wouldn’t be so easy to access later.