| I think the biggest contribution i3 has made to my computing life is helping me recognize just how superfluous most of what I normally did on my Windows and Mac computers was. Take away a lot of the chrome and it’s incredible how much can be achieved via simple text files and unfussy Linux tools. As an example, my GTD workflow (before I switched to a physical bullet journal) went from a variety of apps to a single i3 workspace that auto opened with 5 terms with each containing a single markdown file opened in vim. The leftmost column contained the processing file from top to bottom. The middle column had Doing and Follow up files. The rightmost column had Done and Projects files. My done would be archived each week with a script and a new done file opened for the upcoming week. If there were any other major files I wanted (for example I would maintain a ling term projects file) that would be opened in a different buffer in the VIM app containing the projects file. Moving items from one folder to another was as simple as quickly navigating to that folder, using a shortcut to yank or cut the line to the global clipboard, ans then pasting it to the file I wanted to move it to. I suspect it would have been trivial to write a script that would have automatically moved the entire line over with a single shortcut. There is absolutely no additional overhead and it works extremely fast and well. |