/Journal/ - with single file per date - I keep that file opened the whole day, it serves as a scratchpad, brain dump, way to record reminders, ideas, etc./Work/ - with the same structure as /Projects/, just with work stuff./Projects/Archivist/, which usually includes at least index.md and worklog.md./Projects/ - with sub folders per personal project:./inbox.md - my first-order everything inbox.The structure that I currently use looks like this: I needed just a bunch of markdown files, some basic structure, and one thing I couldn't live with - that script to show my tasks for the next few days. I wanted to introduce as little complexity as I could, so writing a web app to store all that data in a database didn't feel right. Since notes and tasks were overlapping so much, I decided to combine them. And then, there were notes for thinking about things, which sometimes spawned new projects. I never knew if a given piece of information should go in my TaskPaper comments, or my other notes. Some of the notes were related to projects, some of them not. I was also keeping separate folder of notes, initially using Notational Velocity, which then changed to just a folder of markdown files. Once my TaskPaper had more comments than tasks, I knew that this was not going to work for long. This worked well for a few years, but over time, my tasks started turning more from implement X, to research Y, think through Z, etc. I even wrote my own TaskPaper parser, and started scripting my task list: automatically turning dates to at appropriate day (in combination with cron), archiving tasks, or a script that would group tasks by date and print them out, so I could see how my next week is looking. I've been a happy Things user for a while, and migrated to TaskPaper format when I felt too constrained by Things assumptions. I started to use a dedicated todo app sometime in early college, and discovered GTD methodology soon after. I stopped trusting my memory a long time ago, and I hate the feeling of stuff slipping through the cracks.
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