<story><title>How I Manage My Random Daily Notes</title><url>https://hachibu.net/posts/2020/how-i-manage-my-random-daily-notes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexpetralia</author><text>As I&amp;#x27;ve mentioned elsewhere, I have a fairly straightforward &amp;quot;personal knowledge management&amp;quot; (PKM) methodology.&lt;p&gt;1. Capture: every interesting idea that I think up or read is immediately stored in Google Keep (on mobile or laptop). It can be very rough at this point, the goal is simply to not forget.&lt;p&gt;2. Transcribe &amp;amp; Organize: every weekend, I go through the notes I accumulated during the week. It tends to be between 10 and 30 notes. Sometimes the note is &amp;quot;read this article&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;catch up on all newsletters&amp;quot;, so &lt;i&gt;understanding&lt;/i&gt; a single note can take over an hour. On some tough weekends the process takes an entire day, but that is invariably a day where I feel like I learned a &lt;i&gt;ton&lt;/i&gt;. Once the note is cleaned up (transcribed), I feel like I understand it. At this point I rarely forget it - it has been absorbed into my brain. The final step here is &amp;quot;categorizing&amp;quot; the note. I classify it using OneNote with tabs like &amp;quot;Clinical psychology&amp;quot; (nested under &amp;quot;Psychology&amp;quot;) or &amp;quot;Investment management&amp;quot; (nested under &amp;quot;Finance&amp;quot;) or &amp;quot;Math&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Physics&amp;quot;. This way, in the future, I don&amp;#x27;t have a million notes scattered around, but one clear place I know where to look. On average, this process takes 2-4 hours per weekend. I never accumulate bookmarks, Google Keep notes or unread emails more than a week to prevent existential dread.&lt;p&gt;3. Revisit: generally, people recommend you revisit your notes from time to time. I almost never do this. But if I ever am thinking about &amp;quot;Marketing&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Sociology&amp;quot;, I have an immense, high SNR repository of everything I&amp;#x27;ve ever found valuable on the topic. I&amp;#x27;ve done this for software interviews and it&amp;#x27;s been incredibly helpful.&lt;p&gt;Overall, I attribute this system to making me much smarter. It has been an invaluable investment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Natales</author><text>I like the idea of daily notes even better when you combine them with your todo lists at the same time. That concept is called interstitial notes [0], and it&amp;#x27;s used in several software tools like Roam Research [1]. I use Drift [2] which has a interstitial notes plugin which has proven to work very well for me.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nesslabs.com&amp;#x2F;interstitial-journaling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nesslabs.com&amp;#x2F;interstitial-journaling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;roamresearch.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;roamresearch.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;akhater.github.io&amp;#x2F;drift&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;akhater.github.io&amp;#x2F;drift&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How I Manage My Random Daily Notes</title><url>https://hachibu.net/posts/2020/how-i-manage-my-random-daily-notes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alexpetralia</author><text>As I&amp;#x27;ve mentioned elsewhere, I have a fairly straightforward &amp;quot;personal knowledge management&amp;quot; (PKM) methodology.&lt;p&gt;1. Capture: every interesting idea that I think up or read is immediately stored in Google Keep (on mobile or laptop). It can be very rough at this point, the goal is simply to not forget.&lt;p&gt;2. Transcribe &amp;amp; Organize: every weekend, I go through the notes I accumulated during the week. It tends to be between 10 and 30 notes. Sometimes the note is &amp;quot;read this article&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;catch up on all newsletters&amp;quot;, so &lt;i&gt;understanding&lt;/i&gt; a single note can take over an hour. On some tough weekends the process takes an entire day, but that is invariably a day where I feel like I learned a &lt;i&gt;ton&lt;/i&gt;. Once the note is cleaned up (transcribed), I feel like I understand it. At this point I rarely forget it - it has been absorbed into my brain. The final step here is &amp;quot;categorizing&amp;quot; the note. I classify it using OneNote with tabs like &amp;quot;Clinical psychology&amp;quot; (nested under &amp;quot;Psychology&amp;quot;) or &amp;quot;Investment management&amp;quot; (nested under &amp;quot;Finance&amp;quot;) or &amp;quot;Math&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Physics&amp;quot;. This way, in the future, I don&amp;#x27;t have a million notes scattered around, but one clear place I know where to look. On average, this process takes 2-4 hours per weekend. I never accumulate bookmarks, Google Keep notes or unread emails more than a week to prevent existential dread.&lt;p&gt;3. Revisit: generally, people recommend you revisit your notes from time to time. I almost never do this. But if I ever am thinking about &amp;quot;Marketing&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Sociology&amp;quot;, I have an immense, high SNR repository of everything I&amp;#x27;ve ever found valuable on the topic. I&amp;#x27;ve done this for software interviews and it&amp;#x27;s been incredibly helpful.&lt;p&gt;Overall, I attribute this system to making me much smarter. It has been an invaluable investment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nosmokewhereiam</author><text>Google Keep has a limit with how large notes can be, and how many unarchived notes can dictate app performance.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s neat you simply decided to use it to hold on to things for about a week, prefering instead to store them in OneNote (or anything you want), a more stable product. Thanks for this advice!</text></comment>