Currently, I am employing the following rules for my notetaking:
- All notes have a #unique_date_identifier, either on the bulletpoint itself or its parent bulletpoint
- All notes have one or multiple @generic_tag_identifier, either on the bulletpoint itself or its parent bulletpoint
The reason I do this is because now all my notes are searchable by day and by project / generic tag. Also because these rules are enforcede, I can automatically process out gantt charts using python scripts into excel CSV
For dates, I generally don’t use the “!” operator, because I reserve those to make quick google calendar events and meetings
For dating an item using the “#” operator, I try to keep the text as short as possible, since it gets kind of redundant looking at dates over and over.
I use the following:
“#W9A #04” , where “#W9A” refers to [W]eek 9 of the year 2017 [A], and “#04” refers to the day of the month
Normally, I am running LEAN sprints once per week, so I can click on “#W9A” to see everything I wrote down for that week. Subsequently I have implemented a kanban system as well (in another topic will write) so I can also see what things I finished and didn’t finish for that week
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