I used to try taking notes on paper but I could never keep up. Now each meeting is a onenote page for the project and my todo's end up in asana for me to track, prioritize and assign. Benefits are when the meeting is over record keeping is done, as an added plus everything is searchable.
I write notes in bullet form in a work-specific private github repo of Markdown files.
Each daily file is named by date as mm-dd-yy.Rmd with the following info
# Date: xx/xx/xx
## Time in/Time out
## Log
* Task 1
* Task 2
* Subtask
## Notes
* Note 1
I've changed a bunch of stuff around like folders for each year/month, but keeping it in raw text files within a folder directory keeps things organized, and grep-able for searching. My log folder is also within my workspace folder for where folders for other projects live so I can easily open up today's work file with vim in a new tab when I'm working.
The Github repo is mainly to keep me synced between different computers I have to work from between working from home and on different office computers, and also so I own my own log of workplace interactions in case I need to report a list of interactions to HR (which I have had to do multiple times, and has saved my ass).
As for why I'm using R-flavored markdown instead of standard markdown, is that I've found that there are a bunch of standards for markdown that use the *.md extension, and that R markdown gives me good, consistent highlighting, code snippets, functionality with pandoc, and has its own separate extension.
Keeping notes as raw text files synced to git is really the easiest way to keep notes forever. I've tried multiple note apps like evernote and etc. Somehow I never really port notes to the next platform
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# Date: xx/xx/xx
## Time in/Time out
## Log * Task 1 * Task 2 * Subtask
## Notes * Note 1
I've changed a bunch of stuff around like folders for each year/month, but keeping it in raw text files within a folder directory keeps things organized, and grep-able for searching. My log folder is also within my workspace folder for where folders for other projects live so I can easily open up today's work file with vim in a new tab when I'm working.
The Github repo is mainly to keep me synced between different computers I have to work from between working from home and on different office computers, and also so I own my own log of workplace interactions in case I need to report a list of interactions to HR (which I have had to do multiple times, and has saved my ass).
As for why I'm using R-flavored markdown instead of standard markdown, is that I've found that there are a bunch of standards for markdown that use the *.md extension, and that R markdown gives me good, consistent highlighting, code snippets, functionality with pandoc, and has its own separate extension.