In my previous article, The Notes, I was discussing about the tools that are used for storing and organizing notes. When I blogged about the same topic in my company’s internal blog, the article started a good discussion. Several people commented about their habit/technique of organizing their notes. I’m not an exception for this, even I’ve my own way of organizing the notes.
I use Notepad++ as my tool for saving the notes. As Notepad++ supports macro creation, I’ve created macro which will insert a horizontal line (80 * ‘_’ 
) and the current time stamp, so that my notes will be clearly separated in a reverse chronological order. I’m following a certain convention to categorize my notes, which are:
Conventions for categorizing the notes:
- For a note which is mostly a information type, for example “Apache running on 8090″, I use the ‘!’ character as my prefix. i.e. I save the note as ” ! Apache running on 8090″.
- Similarly for question type, ‘?’;TODO – ‘>’; etc.
This convention is just to visually recognize the note, before reading it fully. Of course, these category symbols doesn’t make any sense in the plain Notepad++ text editor. But, they will be definitely useful, if an application can recognize these symbols and present the notes accordingly.
Idea behind the notes application:
That’s the idea – a simple tool for storing the notes with the above mentioned convention and organizing them – behind the application which I’m currently working on. My application will help the user to store and organize their notes, with out adding much operational complexity. And this application is based on the web user interface (developed in Servlets and JSPs), so that it can be accessed from anywhere on the network.
Currently I’m working on the application build part (80% is done!) and I’ll be releasing it soon. Will be blogging about the application once it gets completed.
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