# Preamble
2018-04-06 02:16

This is first season of my notes about low tech pim - in markdown format.



# Low_Tech_Pim: s01e01

Live in #plaintext since ~2007: 86M of text, 14487 structured notes,  13165 journal notes and this is only for main pim (mail, my books, work - separated bases).

# Low_Tech_Pim: s01e02

I use hybrid of #markdown and #asciidoctor markup with some asciiart for my #plaintext #pim and bare links for web content. At the beginning it was self-writed mapping for open web urls from #vim in #firefox, but later I discovered nice #vim shortcut - `gx`, which did the same job. Also change some scripts for getting title of web-page for second line of url (may be seen in screenshot), but that is another story.

# Low_Tech_Pim: s01e03

At early days of my #lowtech #plaintext #pim there was only one all-in-one big file which was divided in two parts. Upper part was the Structure, the Lower part was the Journal - because this is naturally add notes one-by-one to end of file (like feed), and keep structured notes on top of file (like outline). As days goes by, a few global categories became sprouted and was splitted to separate files.

        main.txt

    +===============+
    |               |
    |  Structure    |
    |               |
    +---------------+  <---  Outline of 
    | # header 1    |  <---  structured 
    +---------------+  <--- information 
    | ## header 2   |
    +---------------+
    | ### header 3  |  
    |               |  
    |               |  
    |               |
    +===============+
    |               |
    |    Journal    |
    |               |
    |               |
    +---------------+
    | @ 2006-07-14  |  <--- New
    +---------------+  <--- Journal
    | @ 2006-07-15  |  <--- Notes
    +---------------+
    | @ 2006-07-16  |
    +===============+


# Low_Tech_Pim: s01e04

My inspiration for my #plaintext #pim was "Life inside one big text file"[1][] (AFAIK author abandon his system in favor of bunch of tiny text files under SVN version control). Later I understood that that system similar to Canon Cat of Jef Raskin[2][]. And third one was article about Proteus notebook by Thomas Erikson[3][].

[1]: http://www.43folders.com/2005/08/17/life-inside-one-big-text-file
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
[3]: http://www.tomeri.org/notebook.html

# Low_Tech_Pim: s01e05

Go ahead with my #plaintext #vim system - until no one objects to read it :)

I use different markup for the Journal and for the Structure notes. Latter - simple atx-style markdown header (whith crunches at beginnig of line) and timestamp on next line. For browsing I use map-generating simple python-script (also avaliable bashscript-taste version), or simple switch to vim folding mode. Map convenient for browsing, folding - for reordering file.

# Low_Tech_Pim: s01e06

For the Journal in my #plaintext #pim I use little different format. It's datetimestamp with `@` at the begining of line. Like '@ 2018-04-06 01:49'. Also, I manually put moth- and year- timestamps (with two and three `@` respectively). And, like with structure, I use script for navigation map generation and #vim folding for editing notes in Journal.

[//]: # ( vim: set ft=markdown )