Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It
I like the author’s enthusiasm for organizing personal information. That was me from about 15 years ago to about 3 years ago.<p>I stopped spending time and effort when I realized how little I used my organized notes. Specifically, I used Evernote and had my personal information wonderfully organized, but rarely used it. Now I use something simpler:<p>For work: about 20 Emacs org-mode files for various topics. I use grep to find stuff.<p>For personal: at different times I have used Apple Notes or Google Keep to maintain todo lists, shopping lists, notes on present and future writing projects, planning travel, etc. Both support search. I spend very little time writing these notes and they are useful. A few times a year, I spend a few minutes deleting notes I don’t need anymore.<p>Anyway, thinking about cost/benefits, not spending much time organizing my own information makes sense to me.<p>The turning point was spending months of part time hacking writing my own Evernote’s clone in Clojure in the backend, a Firefox plugin, and a web app. It was a fun project, but mire fun writing it than using it.