Ask HN: Best solutions for keeping a personal log?
I've taken the odd approach of messaging myself in chat software.. in my case, I have "conversations" with myself in Telegram. I feel like I journal more when it's just text and unstructured, rather than, for instance, a detailed form.<p>It's not exactly what you are looking for, but has some good properties:<p>- Always easy to jump in to, since I use TG to chat with people all day long; works on all devices (I need to journal from desktop and mobile)<p>- Easy to forward in/out notes to/from others<p>- No formatting woes since it's pretty much open ended. Supports hash tags and search. Can easily find all media and links.<p>- Telegram already supports tons of different kinds of media files and attachments; can easily snap of a pic of what I'm doing<p>- Can easily export HTML archive of convo at any time for analysis in other software<p>With my setup you'd have trouble automatically injecting content from programs, but you could make a Telegram bot that does that work, and just have conversations with it instead of yourself. (Telegram's API is incredibly simple to get started with and doesn't even require webhooks)