by serendipty01 on 5/14/2025, 6:24:03 AM
by sherdil2022 on 5/14/2025, 1:44:30 AM
Aren’t you worried about a single point of failure if you keep everything in 1 file?
by OhMeadhbh on 5/14/2025, 1:52:14 AM
yes. though i have a bunch of large files, one per project. but grep works on one file as easy as several, so i've started doing a week per file in a per-project directory.
by bn-l on 5/14/2025, 1:35:05 AM
I use markdown in an IDE (vscode). It’s very nice. You get: some formatting, auto indentation, indentation, identifier search (jump to heading with fuzzy search), code highlighting, etc.
by tonetheman on 5/14/2025, 1:31:38 AM
I used to do this and it worked pretty well I thought.
I eventually broke it into years (YYYY-MM-DD-notes.txt and just grep'd the directory.
Finally I made it to markdown files also stored in the same directory.
It was great for searching.
Every day I just open the file and add a new divider for the day at the top of the file like this:
May 13, 2025
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After 3 years I'm at 25,000 lines, 700KB in size
* Its super fast and lightweight
* notepad opens instantly
* notepad takes up very little screen space
* searching is still instant with CTRL + F
* Want to tag something? Just write "tag:something" and search for that later
It sounds kind of stupid at first, like how do you quickly get to old notes?
But I've realized over time I generally only care about the last week or 2 of notes and rarely reference older ones.
I'm curious if anyone else does this and what your stats are for the file and if you ran into any issues