uux_pacioli

> Economics do now work out in my favor mostly.

That means, it is mostly cheaper to do it with Copilot etc. and not alone, right?

That is a cool approach. One can build an ad-hoc kanban system within Vim this way!

I’ve been journaling on and off since the early 2000s — but never for long. A few weeks in, I’d usually stop. Often because what I wrote felt too trivial to be worth it.

Then, while reading some productivity book, I stumbled on a trick: set the bar for success absurdly low. So low that even on my worst days I could still clear it.

Enter The One-Line Journal: the goal is to write just one single line each day. And, as it turns out, most days that first sentence is quickly followed by a few more — sometimes a lot more. I’ve been doing it almost every single day for 2.5 years now.

In the spirit of keeping the barrier low, I deliberately start with a blank slate each morning by creating a new file for that day. The fresh page lowers the threshold even further. Everything is done in Vim with this little alias:

oneline='printf "## $(date +"%Y") \n \n#" >> /path/to/folder/year/$( date +"%Y-%j-%b-%d" )_ol-jrnl.md && vim +$ /path/to/folder/year/$( date +"%Y-%j-%b-%d")_ol-jrnl.md'

Nothing fancy. Just works for me.