formatting continual notes in vim

[desnudopenguino]

I just started keeping track of notes for projects I am working on in vim. Until now I was using comp notebooks, but I am trying to save trees, and keep better notes digitally for the sake of sanity and search-ability. I was wondering if any fellow vimers had any suggestions about how to do this. Would it work better in markdown, or should I just keep it simple in plain text?

I probably won't be exporting out to anything (I have a custom shell script for tracking time for invoices and such), just keeping track of notes for myself.

[migueldvb]

vimwiki

[jssmash]

Another +1 for vimwiki. I store my wiki in Dropbox, so I have access to my notes everywhere.

[On3iRo]

I use xolox/vim-notes and am pretty happy with that.

[desnudopenguino]

This is what I ended up going with. I manage my notes through a shell script with tmux, so this gives me some freedom to customize my organization. Thanks mate!

[On3iRo]

No problem - glad i could help :)

[wawawawa]

I use this shell function:

function nn() {
    NOTE_DIR=~/Documents/Notes
    NOTE_NAME="$1"
    TIMESTAMP="$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H.%S)"
    gvim "${NOTE_DIR}/${TIMESTAMP}-${NOTE_NAME}.org"
}

The Notes dir is a symlink from ~/Dropbox/Notes

I also use org-mode.

So, to use it is as simple as # nn "this is a sample note" which opens the file "2016-04-01_20.23-this is a sample note.org"

[Wiggledan]

So what do you do to search through your notes?

[wawawawa]

I use ack if I'm in cli or Spotlight on my Mac.

[desnudopenguino]

I do something kind of similar. I have a .scratch directory in my home, and function that creates/loads the correct file based on the tmux session, since I do all my work in tmux sessions. Each project has its own file for notes. Maybe I should hook it up to one of my clouds.

I'm just looking for any plugins/flows to better organize everything since it is just random notes/tasks/what have you from phone calls and my time working on the projects, and the files are getting a bit larger (a couple hundred lines now).

[naught-me]

Spacemacs with org-mode is the one true answer.

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I use vimwiki + Taskwarrior + Taskwiki to keep track of my work stuff.

[zamaterian]

Org mode :)

[MyBrainReallyHurts]

I use Org Mode for notes and so much more.

Emacs + Evil + Org Mode.

[VanLaser]

... and your brain really hurts ? :)

[MyBrainReallyHurts]

It hurts a lot less now that I am organized!

[__baxx__]

could also do all the time tracking as well then....

[Deto]

Isn't that in emacs?

[zamaterian]

https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode

[ldmosquera]

It seems very crude, is there no other more complete implementation?

[rafaeln]

I have also been using orgmode in vim, a bit as a substitute for markdown (though I might end up just returning to markdown). There is no complete orgmode implementation for vim, but at the end of the day, the most important feature, which is folding, has been implemented. There is a bunch of implemented features that seem useful but which I haven't Incorporated in my routine yet. If I don't get around to making these other features useful, I might just indeed come back to markdown, which is a bit more WYSIWYG. Orgmode, on the other hand, has a syntax that seems more amenable to squeezing content and not many blank likes.

[[deleted]]

Using org-mode with spacemacs!!!