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Josh Spilker lost his paper journal at the airport a couple of months ago.
“It’s messed up my daily routine for the past week”, he wrote, “and I was hoping I’d find it. But I haven’t. So it’s time to start a new one. Keep going.”
What’s the lesson here?
— Back it up, back it up, back it up, keep it safe. Analog or digital, the mantra applies to anything you create that it would hurt to lose.
More on keeping notes in both paper and digital formats, and keeping both backed up:
I recently learned the basics of HTML thanks to the work of Blake Watson and Jake Haddon who explained it clearly, with no assumption of prior knowledge.
That’s why this article by Alex Chan on using static websites for tiny archives caught my attention: I thought, Wow! I could actually do something like this.
Alex uses simple static websites to browse their local archives. Things like scanned documents, screenshots, and video and audio files.
Why bother? Because you can add all the custom metadata and tags you like, making search much easier than the Finder on your Mac.
It’s a valid approach for people who like using files and folders, a plain filesystem, but who want the flexibility of extensive tagging and metadata without using an app like DEVONthink or Evernote. HTML has been around a very long time, and doesn’t look to be going away any time soon.
Last week I stopped using Apple Reminders as my task manager and returned to a single plain text file structured with the TaskPaper syntax. Both options work well, as do I when free to intuitively change between systems.
Inktober is more than half way through — so far I’m keeping up!
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