Re: slightly OT - journal or project tracking app query

From: Chuck Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 08/30/04

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    Louis LeBlanc wrote:
    [ ... ]
    > As many of you know, it's very easy to get a complex system set up and
    > then promptly forget how you did it. Many people solve this problem
    > by an unorthodox method known as "Documentation". Many of the people
    > I've come behind have been woefully unfamiliar with this practice, and
    > I'm the one left with the shovel.

    When you are in a hole, the first rule is to stop digging. :-)

    I've found that placing machine configuration information into a CVS
    repository, possibly with something like a file called /etc/motd, or
    /etc/ChangeLog, or something which is updated to describe what the machine is
    doing, serves the purpose. Having a copy of `pkg_info` is useful, too.

    [ ... ]
    > Well, I've been looking for a decent journaling app, and can't find
    > anything in the ports flagged by the word "journal".
    >
    > I don't need a big fancy project application, but something that can
    > be easily paged or collated by day or project would be fantastic. In
    > a perfect world, said app would work with an external editor, or use
    > Vim-ish key bindings. Failing the existence of such an application,
    > I'll have to devise my own organizational method and just go with vim
    > until I can work something useful out.

    How about changelog mode in Emacs?

    "Change Log mode:
    Major mode for editing change logs; like Indented Text Mode.
    Prevents numeric backups and sets `left-margin' to 8 and `fill-column' to 74.
    New log entries are usually made with M-x add-change-log-entry or C-x 4 a.
    Each entry behaves as a paragraph, and the entries for one day as a page.
    Runs `change-log-mode-hook'.
    ^L
    auto-fill-function minor mode (indicator Fill):
    Automatically break line at a previous space, in insertion of text."

    #ifdef HUMOR
    Obligatory vi-bashing: I hear that Emacs even offers the vi-impaired a
    compatibility mode called vim.
    #endif 

    -- 
-Chuck
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