Derik Badman's Journal

While walking down to the bakery this morning I was thinking about how while writing daily around the same time is good for discipline, it is not great for me remembering things. It's easy in the morning to remember my walk and my dreams and what I read before bed, but a lot of the rest of the previous day is less clear. I probably have a few thoughts most days where I say "I should write about that tomorrow" and then I forget.

And then just now an article came up online that was about some new AWS thing for quickly making applications, but the app the author was creating was about micro journalling, the idea being writing a lot of short things throughout the day. The article linked to about micro journalling is a little too productivity focused, but it's got me thinking about the idea.

And of course then I start thinking about the right tool for the job. I've been writing in Evernote so far, but while Evernote is good for clipping and searching, I find the writing experience less than desirable, too much autoformatting and I can't easily write in Markdown so it'll convert easily for html export. I end up back at my DM organization issue of wanting a specific app to just do the thing I want to do, which leads me to say "I'll just have to make it myself" but then that could be a huge waste of my time.