Hey y'all,
Lurker here. I was just wondering if anyone else "reverse engineers" their mind/thought-process by writing out and organizing their thoughts?
I keep my "mind" locked up a triple-encrypted TrueCrypt container.
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How I RE my mind:
ASCII art!
At the top of my file I have ASCII art of a Cannabis leaf, and at the bottom the Playboy bunny symbol. In other documents I've used for organizing ideas for development I've also used ASCII like Kilroy to make me chuckle when I open it up.
I organize everything in "sections," which are divided by folder-like ASCII art.
Sections contain sub-sections which are divided by ASCII dividers containing titles and other information.
I use a "quick-search" system where every line with information has a code appended to the 10 characters of the line, such as [0x01234]:
The quick-search code starts with 0x, the following character is the index for the section (0), then sub-section (1), sub-sections contain "ideas" (2), which have "bullet-points" (3), and if need be can be annotated upon (4). Each index is base62, so the first index would be '0' (note: sub-section indexing begins with 1 because there would already be a 0x00000), the tenth 'a' and the thirty-sixth 'A'.
Obviously, I also have a table of contents, a change log, and a to-do list; all of which are given special indexes (e.g "0xT0C").
Dates are also in hexidecimal-like form: starting from year, to month, to day (e.g "0x140711").
Finally, I use symbols for quick-noting (m = monthly expense, y = yearly expense, ? = undecided, ha = funny, pat yourself on the back, etc.).
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Here's some ASCII art if anyone decided to do something like this (on Gist to preserve spacing):
Folder concept: gist.github.com/Oloty/23e64754e92ec2f88806
Folder-divider concept: gist.github.com/Oloty/8a69f96f191f38304d04
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Notes:
- Keep it under 80 characters a line to force yourself to articulate on what you mean so you know when you look at it later.
- Have fun! Not only is this good for organizing your ideas but it's also good for your health (probably, I'm no Doctor but I imagine this helps with memory and such), so don't make it a boring painstaking process you'll never want to do.
Lurker here. I was just wondering if anyone else "reverse engineers" their mind/thought-process by writing out and organizing their thoughts?
I keep my "mind" locked up a triple-encrypted TrueCrypt container.
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How I RE my mind:
ASCII art!
At the top of my file I have ASCII art of a Cannabis leaf, and at the bottom the Playboy bunny symbol. In other documents I've used for organizing ideas for development I've also used ASCII like Kilroy to make me chuckle when I open it up.
I organize everything in "sections," which are divided by folder-like ASCII art.
Sections contain sub-sections which are divided by ASCII dividers containing titles and other information.
I use a "quick-search" system where every line with information has a code appended to the 10 characters of the line, such as [0x01234]:
The quick-search code starts with 0x, the following character is the index for the section (0), then sub-section (1), sub-sections contain "ideas" (2), which have "bullet-points" (3), and if need be can be annotated upon (4). Each index is base62, so the first index would be '0' (note: sub-section indexing begins with 1 because there would already be a 0x00000), the tenth 'a' and the thirty-sixth 'A'.
Obviously, I also have a table of contents, a change log, and a to-do list; all of which are given special indexes (e.g "0xT0C").
Dates are also in hexidecimal-like form: starting from year, to month, to day (e.g "0x140711").
Finally, I use symbols for quick-noting (m = monthly expense, y = yearly expense, ? = undecided, ha = funny, pat yourself on the back, etc.).
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Here's some ASCII art if anyone decided to do something like this (on Gist to preserve spacing):
Folder concept: gist.github.com/Oloty/23e64754e92ec2f88806
Folder-divider concept: gist.github.com/Oloty/8a69f96f191f38304d04
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Notes:
- Keep it under 80 characters a line to force yourself to articulate on what you mean so you know when you look at it later.
- Have fun! Not only is this good for organizing your ideas but it's also good for your health (probably, I'm no Doctor but I imagine this helps with memory and such), so don't make it a boring painstaking process you'll never want to do.
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