Re: [emacs-humanities] How do you keep engaged with your writings?

[Andrea]

Hi,

Thanks Paul! I find smart to make copying tasks an obstacle for cluttering
your agenda with unimportant tasks.

I am afraid I did not get the syncing bit though: do you mean you have a
single copy of your notebook and so you cannot have conflicts between copies?

Best,

Andrea

On Sun 24 Jan 2021 at 15:03, Paul W. Rankin via Emacs-humanities 
<emacs-humanities@gnu.org> wrote:

> On 2021-01-23 16:57, Manuel Uberti wrote:
>> Everything is indexed in bullet journaling, so I can quickly go to
>> important
>> notes and lists. The beauty of it is that, just like Emacs, it is
>> entirely
>> customisable to suit one's needs. I keep track of expenses at home,
>> log my
>> readings, organise my studies at University, manage appointments, etc.
>> As for the rest, I am happy to set my computer aside as much as
>> possible. I
>> already spend too much time on it for work and writing anyway.
>
> Please allow me to echo Manuel's praise for a paper notebook. A couple
> of advantages over digital that may not be immediately obvious:
>
> Requires no syncing. A while back I had what seemed like an epiphany:
> I had wasted many hours of my life just trying to *sync* various
> things. Now, anything that advertises syncing as a feature I approach
> with trepidation.
>
> Graceful decay of tasks. Each week turns a new page; if I have
> incomplete tasks from the previous week, I'll need to copy them over
> to the current week. Often times a task seems important at the time
> but less so later. Unimportant tasks just don't get copied over
> gracefully fade into the past.