[r13a]

update: Edited for typos.

A markdown file.

I do my daily journaling in a markdown file anyway (Today's Daily Note is `2022-08-22.md`).

I have a simple script to create today's Daily Note with `$ jrnl` and open it in my editor of choice (Which happens to be vim). The Daily Note is created by copying a template file.

The first header of that template is a simple markdown table with a column for each hour and 6 rows (each row for 10 minutes).

The table legend indicates a list of symbols (~/>/@/...) for each type of activity. As I organize my day by work-units of 1H (I work the Pomodoro way...), at the beginning of each 1H working session I just fill in the column of the previous hour with symbols representing how I spent it.

Hint: It should be filled with '>' symbols because that symbol represents the ONE most important task I need to achieve that day.

The second header of the template is a very short list of questions I force myself to answer every morning to reflect on my previous day (Which I call my 'Warming Routine'):

- What do I want to achieve today? - Was I able to achieve my goal yesterday? - What happened yesterday? - What am I grateful for?

Subsequent headers are the entries of my journal...

This minimalist tooling suits me perfectly because I tend to be very lazy so a lot of what I do isn't always properly logged. But entering 6 characters each hour (Remember the symbols for types of activity) is achievable even for a lazy dude like me :)

Another reason it suits me so perfectly is that I tend to live in my terminal anyway so it presents very low friction.

On top of that it's very easy to automate certain tasks: For instance, I tend to use a very light version of Zettelkasten to organize my thought/knowledge. So I have vim scripts to search my Knowledge base and to follow links to notes. So everywhere in my Zettelkasten notes, you'll find links to Daily notes in the form of `[[yyyy-mm-dd]]` which I open with a hotkey.

Mind you I didn't invent this method: I stole it from Ivaylo Durmonski and his [The Grid: Daily Planner for Better Time Management](https://durmonski.com/productivity/daily-planner-for-minimal...).

So all credits go to him.