Note-taking thoughts for the New Year
I'll be back at my desk tomorrow. The children are making thank-you cards, so I'm using the time to think about my note-taking process.
I haven't got very far with this - and I'm not looking for anything wildly different from what I did in 2022. Emacs is central, as is Org Mode and Org-roam. Journalling happens in Day One - mainly on my iPhone.
The initial improvements I would like to make include the following:
- Being able to quickly create one-line notes from Raycast, which can then be edited in Emacs either immediately or later
- Search for notes using Raycast
- Explore whether being more diligent about creating relationships between notes will be helpful (or just a distraction)
Here is what I've managed to come up with so far for the first of the above:
- https://mken.paste.lol/org-roam-fast-make-link.el - inserted into my config.el (I'm using Doom Emacs). Modified slightly from some code on Emacs Stack Exchange.
- https://mken.paste.lol/org-roam-new-file.sh - a Raycast script to prompt for a note title and contents
I still need to get Raycast to ask me whether I want to edit the note in Emacs after it's been created. However, I will try this out properly tomorrow and see whether it will genuinely help.