Continuing my digital notes re-exploration, I expended my usage of Reminders on both my iPhone and Mac. I’ve used those before, but not to this extent:
The notebook taught me to write anything that pops into my head down, and I can do it distraction-free with my Apple Watch using Siri. All I have to do is lift my wrist as if checking the time and ask Siri to “remind me to write a blog post about reminders today at 10 PM,” and I get exactly that—quick, fast, and readable.
My quick Reminder list is shaping up to be quick to-dos, where bigger projects go into Emacs, as always. Over there, I’m using my project capture template generously to capture anything that requires more than 10 minutes of work.
I had 5 meetings today as I hammered away at my keyboard (a loud mechanical one), taking notes. It’s faster than writing by hand, and it’s easy to reorganize those meetings into the bigger projects they belong to.
Unlike the notebook, I feel I’ve hit a certain groove where I’m engaging my productivity with the confidence that I’m not forgetting stuff.