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Looking for a program to document things in life. (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 3 months ago by hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org to c/softwareoptions@lemmy.world
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Hello all. I'm looking for (a) program(s) to manage & document things in life. Mainly these features are what I need:

  • Diary, random notes(like a wiki?) with version control
  • TODO list, auto added to diary at that time period
  • Ability to attach images and text files to those diary, notes
  • Calendar with schedule synced with TODO
  • Easy backup, preferably in plaintext or simple db
  • Text search

Currently I'm using SeaMonkey and my phone(android) to manage calendar (so two separated ones), a paper note to write diaries and use dokuwiki for random notes. This setup is too complicated and isn't productive at all.

I do think my requirements are kinda abstract, and there most likely isn't a single program that can do all this. Although basic I'm a novice FreeBSD & Emacs+evil user so *nix-only or text-based utilities are okay. I'm not aware of any program that meets these needs, is there anything that resembles what I'm thinking? Thanks!

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[โ€“] wer2@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As an emacs user, have you considered org mode, with org-roam enabled? You can use source control to back it up or, use something like syncthings to move the files around.

[โ€“] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

org-mode itself is really good. i haven't really studied emacs properly & is only using it as some sort of fancy notepad so I haven't actually heard of org-roam until now xD. Thanks, will search for that!