What's in your Simplenote?
Patrick wants to know what’s in your Simplenote.
Here’s what lives in my Notational Velocity/Simplenote folder:
- More than 150 recipes. Yum.
- apps.txt, a list I’ve been keeping since the days of OS 9—about a quarter of the posts to One Thing Well to date began life as lines in this file.
- presents.txt—whenever I see something and think ‘Ooh, so-and-so would like that’ it gets stored here for birthdays, Christmas, &c.
- Every post to this site and my other weblog, in Markdown format (I use Steven Frank’s NV fork to preview).
- Cheat sheets, lists of keyboard command combinations, snippets of man pages and the like—NV is a great reference tool.
- ~1000 other tiny nuggets of information—most of my notes are less than three lines long.
Just in case anyone was wondering: the notes live in a directory inside my ~/Dropbox folder which is symlinked to ~/notes on both my computers. I use a naming scheme to make stuff easy to find, so anything related to this site gets called otw-something.txt, vague ideas are named idea-something.txt, and so on. I’ll stick to this lo-fi way of categorising my notes rather than relying on Simplenote’s new tagging feature, I think—it’s portable, and future-proof.
