Can't help overthinking what I should have as my first entry in this journal. Reminds me of the feeling of starting a new notebook, and agonising over what should be on the first page - it must be neat and permanently relevant. Of course, that's nonsense.
So I thought I'd just start typing. After all, the idea of this journal is to allow me to record thoughts in as friction-free a way as possible. Part of that is having a low barrier to writing, but also a low filter threshold.
Anyway, as usual, I've spent the last hour yak shaving, setting up a little system where I can just hit j and get directly to typing in my thoughts.
Hitting j starts a new tmux 'JOURNAL' session, or attaches to an existing one, and then uses gh issue create to initiate the process. The title is easy - I wanted to avoid having to think about what I should title each journal entry, so I'm simply using a timestamp. The gh issue create process then takes me into vim whereupon some vim configuration notices that it's a Markdown buffer that I'm editing, and throws me into Goyo which is a fantastic way to focus on writing.
And that's it. I'm not exactly sure whether things will work when I exit this buffer, I guess the only way to find out is to try it. Here goes.
Can't help overthinking what I should have as my first entry in this journal. Reminds me of the feeling of starting a new notebook, and agonising over what should be on the first page - it must be neat and permanently relevant. Of course, that's nonsense.
So I thought I'd just start typing. After all, the idea of this journal is to allow me to record thoughts in as friction-free a way as possible. Part of that is having a low barrier to writing, but also a low filter threshold.
Anyway, as usual, I've spent the last hour yak shaving, setting up a little system where I can just hit
jand get directly to typing in my thoughts.Hitting
jstarts a newtmux'JOURNAL' session, or attaches to an existing one, and then usesgh issue createto initiate the process. The title is easy - I wanted to avoid having to think about what I should title each journal entry, so I'm simply using a timestamp. Thegh issue createprocess then takes me intovimwhereupon somevimconfiguration notices that it's a Markdown buffer that I'm editing, and throws me intoGoyowhich is a fantastic way to focus on writing.And that's it. I'm not exactly sure whether things will work when I exit this buffer, I guess the only way to find out is to try it. Here goes.