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plain text files2022-03-02 I write almost everything important in my life: thoughts, plans, notes, diaries, correspondence, code, articles, and entire books. They are my extended memory — my noted self — my organized thoughts.
2022-03-02 I write almost everything important in my life: thoughts, plans, notes, diaries, correspondence, code, articles, and entire books. I’ve brought my text files with me since 1990, from Mac to Windows to Linux to BSD, from PCs to laptops to tablets to Android to iOS to a tiny device the size of my thumb, and back again. Then it’s easy to use any little scripting language like Ruby, Python, or JavaScript to grab the date and tags, and use them for categorizing, sorting, renaming, archiving, or exporting.
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