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The best thing I have done for making my notes usable is to have a simple grep script that runs anywhere and searches all the notes files I have. My script is c
by dwh452 2y ago
The best thing I have done for making my notes usable is to have a simple grep script that runs anywhere and searches all the notes files I have. My script is case insensitive and matches lines that contains all the strings you searched on.
- pflenker 2y agoCouldn’t agree more. Make your notes discoverable by search would be my number one recommendation.
- lvass 2y agoIndeed. For Emacs users, there's consult-notes-search-in-all-notes which does that with file previews.
- codazoda 2y agoTo that end I recently wrote about several modern ways to convert handwritten notes to searchable notes. I primarily write handwritten notes because of the mental benefits of doing so. https://notes.joeldare.com/handwritten-text-recognition https://notes.joeldare.com/handwritten-text-recognition