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Newbie working with plain text: best practices for formatting etc?
Matthew Chagnon | Jan 22 2008
Hey all, I've searched far and wide online and am really surprised not to find very much info on this (perhaps I'm using the wrong search terms!). After reading Bit Literacy, I decided that I wanted to starting using plain text files more at work, especially for notes. Unfortunately, years of reading 43F has enhanced my fiddly nature, and I'm more focused on trying to format my notes "correctly," or at least to have some sort of standard to stick to. Does anyone have any best practices (or web resources) for working with text on a page? Currently, I find text files difficult to read (and line breaks confusing). Any thoughts? 26 Comments
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 just about anything can search textSubmitted by scottnotrobot on January 22, 2008 - 9:10pm.
didn't read all the other comments... pardon if i'm redundant. but, kinda analogous to the gmail idea... don't organize, but rather search. just about any text editor you're using will allow you to search. at some point you will have some overloaded terms... it's usually tolerable for quite awhile, but eventually you will probably need to break into topical files. i've been keeping notes this way my entire 10 year career, and i only have a dozen or so files. in the last couple years i've added a journal style file that is strictly chronological with dates for each entry... good for unstructured (not easily categorized) notes that you still have a chance at getting a handle on via chronology (and again, search). » POSTED IN:
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