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by ilyt 1128 days ago
Journals ? No, it's just a mess of a bunch of unrelated things that only have date in common. I'd definitely consider doing one for travels, could be a nice thing with attached picture but for day to day things I prefer different kind.

Logging and notes? Yes. I am fond of "personal wiki" idea.

Project gets its own page with all relevant info. And links to all the other relevant things. Search makes sure I can actually find it. at worst if I wanted to look at history I could git blame so "when I wrote that" feature of journal is also filled in.

I use QOwnNotes which is absolute overkill feature-wise for me but I use it coz it keeps files in markdown which means I can edit/view it in many other things if required. Then syncthing to sync to other devices.

I'd only want for better integration with todo/calendar tools.

My ideal would be ability to write a calendar event (org-mode style) anywhere I want. And a feature to be able to express "put this event on my to-do list after date X". So I could, for example, put a maintenance thing year ahead on to-do list but without a concrete data and calendar alerts to bother me

I did use org-mode for a long time and it was great when only using editor but weak integration with anything else made me eventually leave it. Like, I love the featureset but non-emacs implementations always miss something (like spreadsheet-like table handling with formulas) and I grew tired of it.

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it is not about the content or knowledge. Journaling is a tool to help you reflect and refine your thoughts. The thought process that came out of writing is more important than what gets writtern. In short, it helps you think better and more self aware.