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Dayone textexpander8/10/2023 ![]() Marked 2 is a beautiful app to help get these text files in a more shareable state. TextExpander helped with the date and times. ![]() Long emails, pitches, responses to clients, meeting notes all were made in nvALT. This gives order to my madness that was ~3500 text files over the past 10 years. Since my files were named consistently project - description - YYYY-MM-DD, I could search all files by project, date with quick visual feedback. nvALT allows full text searching of a folder of text files. I picked up the good habit of naming my thoughts by job and date very early on. The ability to quickly search/create new text files was awesome. Old wayįor the past 7 years I’ve been using an application called nvALT on the Mac. They are small and computers will always be able to read text files. Plain text documents are the best future proof format for your data. There are also no proprietary formats or software required. The file size is very small and batch editing is possible with some light shell commands. The simplicity of plain text feels right to me. I do use some Multi-Markdown syntax for tables and description lists. Draft responses for emails or chat communication.Sometimes pictures of paper notes or sketches.Logs for house, car, medical info, clothing sizes.Scratch files (commands I run, lists of items for reference ).My written notes usually fall into one of these groups: Drafting a thought in text let’s me see it and refine it. ![]() The act of writing is my way of refining my thoughts.
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