[reidjs]

Tangentially related. I have fairly unorganized folder with a ton of markdown journal entries, notes, observations, shopping lists, etc. I would like to go through organizing, archiving, and editing these entries.

Has anyone done something like that before? How did you do it in a sane way? Do you just start at the end and work forwards? Do you have some kind of #tagging system and then you applied something like elasticsearch or sqlite to filter them?

[codazoda]

I've never gone back and logged old notes but I did start doing something that's worked well for me...

I log, "stray thoughts". I put these in a physical notebook but Google Keep or Apple Notes works just as well. Anything goes and everything goes in the same place.

At the beginning of my day, I "translate" my hastily written thoughts into more complete notes in a flat text file. Each thought is written on a single line in a way that I could read and understand it out of context.

I use hash tags to categorize and to link other ideas (by line number).

I also created a biblio.txt file that has URLs, names, book titles, and other references in it. I use curly braces to link a note to a reference.

Example:

Pencils are longer lasting than pens. #324 #327 #writing {26}

The real magic happens when I use my text editors search feature to research all my previous thoughts about something in my flat text file.

[reidjs]

How do you handle multi-line thoughts?

Can your system do hyperlinking and filtering by one or more tags?

[blackkat]

Just went through this process myself with a similar rag-tag collection of snippets. I used the zettlekasten process and a plug-in for visual studio code to help with the organization of said information.

Have a look and see if it works for you.

[reidjs]

I'm looking into Foam, thanks for putting a name to the process.

[xk3]

I would keep the files separate and just use JoHnNy dEcImAl

https://johnnydecimal.com/

[eric-hu]

I use a VSCode plugin called Dendron for this. It provides some commands to operate over notes, like renaming, for instance.

https://www.dendron.so/

[ridiculous_lol]

Have you considered Obsidian?

https://obsidian.md/