NotePlan doesn't (yet) update your filenames if you change the note title. But in the meantime, I've had a painful lesson in just how important having a second brain is for developers, and how important it is for me to document my technical workflows in my second brain.That's because NotePlan uses the note titles (first line in the note) as the references, whereas Obsidian uses the filename. I'm eagerly awaiting the release of Tiago Forte's book in June, Building a Second Brain.
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I'll still use remnote for code I want to get into my first brain because it does great code blocks that can show up in its built-in flashcard system. NotePlan does an excellent job of handling code blocks – and code blocks are for developers what sentences are for linguists: NotePlan codeblockįor now, I'm going to stick with NotePlan for part of developer second brain: documenting workflows. (small digression: Get SetApp and it pays for NotePlan, and Cleanshot X, and TablePlus and MindNode and a whole bunch of other apps you may find useful.) While I think that AmpleNote does a better job of making reminders more robust and general life planning, NotePlan has become my daily note taking app. NotePlan is very similar to AmpleNote: it too allows you to mix todos with context. My second choice is AmpleNote - great for creating rich context around what you need to do, but limited support for markdown.
But Apple Notes does not support markdown. I really like the ubiquity of Apple Notes - it looks great, and does well on my iPhone, iPad, desktop Macs. I'm presently using a hodge-podge of three different apps ( sigh): I'm still using it for online receipts, but I have moved on. Oh, Evernote is alright for receipts, recipes and the like, but it mangles code, doesn't have usable backlinks, and has a terrible search engine.
Adding a second developer brainįor years I've used Evernote, which absolutely sucks for this purpose.
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When it comes to PKM systems (Personal Knowledge Management systems - if you're not familiar with the term, give it a year and you will be) there's actually two layers in my opinion: the knowledge stuff (quotes you want to work with as a writer or student, facts you need to know to learn your chosen profession) and workflows - knowledge about how to do something with all that knowledge you've been building up in your second brain.
But as the job of coding has gotten more complicated, the tools and services we use more robust, workflows, aka instructions on how to do shit, become critical to our doing our job. Workflows are something that developers build for other folks who pay them, not something we give a lot of thought to for ourselves. ReplyBox a great service, and if you've got a blog ( and you should if you're a developer), you should consider switching to ReplyBox, but the point of this post isn't about ReplyBox, it's about my my brain, and my need for a second brain to store all the technical stuff that was originally in my organic brain, especially workflows.
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Then I spent another 2 hours this morning navigating the back alleys of Ghost Pro, trying to remember/relearn/google how to change a layout (for 3rd party themes like the one I use on this site, you have to find your theme's code buried on your localhost, edit that, then zip it and upload the zip to ghost and set it as active - another process I'd completely forgotten.). I wasted 3 hours going down the rabbit hole with Netlify before I remembered that I had moved my site to Ghost 6 months ago. Sometimes it feels like the steady increase in new information compresses right out of my brain key information I may need in the future.Īn example: yesterday after seeing yet another $10 charge from do-nothing commento.io hit my bank account, after checking that they never responded to my last request for tech support, I decided to dump them from 47hats for ReplyBox a fairly new commenting service that seems to work well with non-WordPress and WordPress blogs. It's so easy to forget chunks of information that you use infrequently. As a developer, I deal with huge amounts of information.
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