I’m noticing I get stuck a lot on thinking about notebook structure and file structure in terms of how I’ll archive them. But especially for notes I take while working on tasks, there’s actually no need to keep them once the task’s done and the information’s on the page itself is migrated to my digital tools. So I’m considering just treating these kinds of notes as ephemeral.

I was just curious how picky others are about the notes they actually archive for long term keeping?

  • Somallasses@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My main advice would be go into settings and reset the tutorial notes. I have done this a lot with mine and they help me… re organize how i organize my RM? You can use all the stuff however you want and its more freeing than punishing.

    Im the opposite from the other comments, I will fill that storage up with uselesss timestamps of my life, all day. Ill cut stuff off when I hit ~6 gigs of space. Im ~3 years in and not even halfway there.

    I have never stressed it. The thing i love the most is Quick Sheets always shows a new page, i know that on-the-go notes are right there. I dont have to remember?

    The ReMarkable is a totem of my history. 90% of mine is throwaway stuff. Ill go through it soon and save everything i want as a pdf or whatnot, but the more I use it, the more it means.

    Holding that weight makes me be more careful with it too.

  • kg4zow@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For work, I have a monthly document, previously a notebook with templated pages but now I’m trying a PDF that I made using rm2-cal, that I keep as a long-term record, exported to PDF and backed up to a company-owned file sharing thing.

    I also have notebooks for each of the recurring meetings I’m involved in, with the first page being “items for the next meeting”, and then when the meeting starts each week I add a new page immediately after that and move items from one page to another as I cover them. These are also retained as PDFs on the company’s file-sharing thing.

    For personal stuff, it depends. There are some things I keep long-term, but a lot of it is more “to-do list” kinda stuff, like “items I want to cover on remarkable.jms1.info”, where once I’ve done or written whatever it is, that item (or page, or notebook) can go.

    And in both cases, I have a Linux server at home which, if the tablets aren’t sleeping at the time, automatically “pulls” backups from them every hour. If I ever accidentally delete something (that isn’t “brand new”), I can go to the server and find/restore it to either tablet. (Remember I mentioned a list of things I wanted to write about on the web site? 😁)

  • serverhorror@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ephemeral

    I take written notes because it’s faster than typing (I’m a decent typist but notes are not pre-structured, that makes it hard).

    I usually set time apart to transcribe the nites into something more presentable a couple times a week.

    The page with the original note is attached to this more presentable format but I’ve never looked at them, at this point, it’s just a habit.