One File to Rule Them All

Two things I decided this morning whilst taking my morning coffee.

One, I am going down to one text file for my journal – and for my to do list, and for my contacts, and for, whatever else. I am tired of having dozens of ‘journal’ files and to-do lists spread out over several computers. One file should make it easy enough to backup and share across work and home. All I have to do is email it to myself everyday to make a backup and to access it from my home computers. I want to spend as much of my daily computer time on the while I am work and less while I’m at home so it shouldn’t be a large problem.

Two, I also decided to save time and manage all my reading by using bookmarks. Why do I need to keep up with separate files just to list all of my reading? That’s just extra work and it is dumb.
I will have to sync my bookmarks and as much as I hate it I am going to use my Firefox account to sync my bookmarks.

I tried it out today at work and was happy with the results. I used good ole’ notepad and timestamps to track my daily activity and my to-do list. When I was done it took ten seconds to copy the file into an email. For all my browsing, I simply bookmarked all the sites I visited and put them into a folder. If I need to ever go back and find a site I can easily search my bookmarks with Firefox’s built in bookmark tools.

I was also happy to run across a project that does something similar to what I had envisioned.
This is what it looks like in practice. Awesome stuff as you can see.