6/12/2023 0 Comments Manictime filter tags![]() ![]() Sometimes you must switch off, set your status to DND, maybe even close email and Teams to not get distracted and focus on a major task. Although this might induce some anxiety, but i am used to this. Mainly because i am very pedantic person and have rather good memory, so even if i miss a reminder somehow, it still is on the back of my mind. I admit, that it is often confusing switching between emails, Teams and To Do and figuring what to do next. If i anticipate more work, i always add it to To Do. If it is something quick like one line reply, add someone to a group and close the ticket, etc. Of course, inevitably more work comes through other channels (Teams, mail, tickets). If it is important to do something at exact time or in the morning, i also set reminders in To Do. If i get a new significant task, i put it to Planned for Today or some other day. I set important tasks with Due Tomorrow at the end of current day, so next day i open Planned and see what i need to work on today. I use To Do as my main task tracking tool and focus set for the day. But with the direct edit approach, I have to save to a file and make a markdown image link. In both quiver and Joplin, I can paste in a screenshot from my clipboard. One disadvantage is that while vscode has a markdown preview, it's not as nice for images. Then I "publish" it in confluence by pasting the markdown preview, editing, and then dropping in any screenshots, web sequence diagrams, or drawio diagrams. Side note: many of my notes are for me, but I do often use these notes to write documentation, and I often start the documentation in markdown. The chronological aspect helps if I am looking at code/published docs from a certain time frame and want to see what all I was working on at the time. I make heavy use of "find in folder" to find things I vaguely recall working on. But I'm not overly concerned about keeping it fully chronological. I might add a note saying I "copied to October dailies", or "moved investigation to file. I'm not too overly concerned about duplicates. It gets a bit tricky when things cross a month barrier, but I usually just move the notes I'm working on into the current month, or copy notes from last month's dailies into this months. If I start working on something and I figure it's too large for the daily entry (especially if I'm grabbing lots of logs or code), I make a new file in the month folder, alongside the dailies. Once they become less important, I just start the latest days entry above it. In that file, I setup a H2 ( #) entry for each day, and I usually keep multi-day TODO/notes "pinned" to the top. So I have basically notes/dailies/2022/2022-10-dailies.md.
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