CRIMPing in multiple axes

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Posted by Amontillado
Jul 12, 2022 at 04:25 PM

Trying different writing software introduces new ideas for planning.

Finding new ways to use existing capabilities has merit, too. I call it CAMPing, because it must have a properly academic acronym - Comprehensive Analysis of Metadatical Proceduralisms.

For instance, I’ve started thinking of Devonthink’s nested tags as either subject matter tags, if a tag serves as a container for a subject, or as a role tag, which would be a nested tag inside a subject tag for reference material or some other form of context or looser association.

For example, I might have a tag for notes about the Teapot Dome scandal. The subject of the notes in that tag would be the scandal. I might have a subtag under Teapot Dome called Teapot geodesy where I tag notes about earth science and geology. The geodesy subtag would serve the role of cross references to surveying, gravimetrics, hydrology, whatever other notes I’ve got about earth science that don’t relate to Teapot Dome but have meaning when musing about the oil exploration at Teapot Dome outside of the scandal.

Those notes would be easy enough to find on their own, of course. With the subtag, I can focus on the Teapot Dome tag and see a tree of references. I believe that also strengthens DT’s AI see-also capabilities. If I’m looking at a note about fault lines, I might notice it’s tagged in the Teapot Dome tree and explore that tag as a side trip.

Just a thought. It would be nice to hear of creative ways to use standard features - anyone have a good one?

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 13, 2022 at 12:06 PM

I am not sure if this is in line with what you’re looking for, but a system I am toying with (haven’t decided for sure if it works) is creating a master note of links to projects and important notes I want to urge myself to revisit, then setting it up as a recurring reminder. Of course, to do this, you need an app that allows you to set a recurring reminder for notes and not just tasks.

There is also the approach of Napkin, which has all sorts of ways to resurface notes, though over all I’m not sure how useful Napkin is for most work other than researching for writing.

Steve

Posted by Amontillado
Jul 13, 2022 at 01:46 PM

Nice approach, and yes, and exactly in line with my quest - methods to press software into service better than following the beaten path.

Napkin looks really cool. Wish it weren’t an online app, though, but I understand the allure from a developer’s perspective.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
I am not sure if this is in line with what you’re looking for, but a
>system I am toying with (haven’t decided for sure if it works) is
>creating a master note of links to projects and important notes I want
>to urge myself to revisit, then setting it up as a recurring reminder.
>Of course, to do this, you need an app that allows you to set a
>recurring reminder for notes and not just tasks.
> >There is also the approach of Napkin, which has all sorts of ways to
>resurface notes, though over all I’m not sure how useful Napkin is for
>most work other than researching for writing.
> >Steve
> >

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 14, 2022 at 02:54 PM

Hm, I can’t think of anything particularly unusual I do with my various task management apps (apart from using the TickTick outlining facility rather more than, I suspect, the developers ever thought anybody would want to!), but I’m delighted to find that the very latest version of NotePlan has come up with a rather nice “weekly note” concept – a sort of tray labelled e.g. WEEK 28 that sits at the top of your daily notes, just under the backlinks (“REFERENCES”) section, so you can drag and drop stuff into it – or out of it – which doesn’t have a specific deadline or must-do date.

It’s a deceptively simple concept, but appears to work really well (especially now that dragging and dropping items/blocks in NotePlan has become so easy). Every day in a given week, you can see this week’s “weekly note”

NotePlan also has a new transclusion feature, but I’m still working out how that could be useful to me in my daily task management. So far, I haven’t thought of anything!

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