Durmonski writes essays on self-improvement, learning, curiosity, productivity and the effects of social media.
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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…
I actually agree to be honest.
The experience as a junior DevOps or sysadmin and now web developer.
Has been bad, from the guy that rejected me and didn't know the differences between CentOS and Debian, too security people who can't do anything on Linux, I have no clue how it works and couldn't even install a VM.
To other people that that didn't know how to the browser worked. Not in the sense of depth, but more like that browser has a cache and I had to hard refresh it, to see the results and this awesome senior web developer didn't know that.
Yes, I've met a lot of people that can't explain anything and are going to mad if you want sources.
Not that I'm great, but I always come with sources or like I said earlier in my comments, I don't agree, but don't have the sources or arguments to back this claim up.
Edit: another example today I was actually stupid with my web app. (I got the web already working) but something in my mind isn't satisfied.
And it was hard, hard due the perception that I had.
This is what I apply to myself.
https://durmonski.com/life-advice/guide-how-not-to-be-stupid/#easy-footnote-2-4346
I've never actually used this, but I remember the story from a few days ago from a guy who's doing exactly that?
https://durmonski.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24469292
If you use it, tell us how it is :)