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Comment by codyb

20 hours ago

My simple notes setup that I love since I live in ViM and TMux sessions

```.vimrc

map <leader>x :vs<cr>:e ~/Documents/notepad.txt<cr>

map <leader>X :vs<cr>:e ~/Documents/notes<cr>

map <leader>P :Files ~/Documents/notes<cr>

```

And that's pretty much it. I can pop open a long running file for temporary one offs, or pop open a directory with directories with files which all start with `01-`, `02-`,... to enforce order, with additions to a particular topic doing `01A-`, etc

And since I edit everything I work on in ViM, I have notes available in all my editors which have keyboard short cut quick jump navigation.

It keeps me very organized, can be set up anywhere with just a couple lines in the config file there, and only took me about a decade of steadily refining things down to get to