What I use to store information and keep track of things
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In my constant desire for more simplicity I’d like to reduce the variety of programs and ways all this information is managed. However I don’t want to get too obsessed…
For example: I like to unload my thoughts on whatever I have at hand in the moment such as my journal in Google Docs if I only have my phone. If I left my home without my phone I prefer the physical bullet journal. If I want to write extensively about something I prefer the Docs journal from my PC where I can type very quickly. I prefer this versatility against getting obsessed over using only one medium.
Physical Bullet journal
I like to step away from screens considering my job (web dev) and some of my hobbies (reading mostly in a Kindle, YouTube, videogames…)
- Track tasks and habits, birthdays, future events, etc. As an agenda, basically
- Occasionally to vent or write down any kind of thought
Obsidian
- Goals
- Recipes: mainly because I like to tag them with their ingredients and then search from what I have available
- Shopping lists
- Written pieces that I want to keep easy accesible separate from journal
- Media I want to watch/read/etc.
- Travel plans
I used to keep these in my bullet journal but nowadays I prefer to keep them separately since they are mostly things that I want and need to access/read throughout long periods of time.
Google Drive
- Finances (Google Sheets)
- Private journaling:
- In a Word document which started offline in 2017 but afterwards moved to this platform so I could have somewhere to write personal stuff from any device I had at hand (such as my cellphone). I would love to find a way to avoid using Google for this but without adding a new app/service/program to my “stack”, so to say. As well as convert it all to plain text and format accordingly since it is probably the document I want to preserve for all my life.
- Personal, work and study documents
- Books and their highlights
Google Calendar
- Recurring events such as birthdays and activities (exercise, work)
- Special events (concerts, holidays)
Google Photos (self explanatory)
Calibre
Sync books to my Kindle and sometimes read from my personal desktop PC