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Matthew Cornell
Personal blog · matthewcornell.org/blogproductivityprogramming
Matthew Cornell writes The Experiment-Driven Life Blog, a personal blog at matthewcornell.org about productivity and programming. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Matthew Cornell's blog for its 2005-2009 posts on the 'one big text file' personal note-keeping approach and the 'anti-library' idea of valuing unread books.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Very interesting. I suppose when you use this every day, you actually won't get "lost" within it. Also, this kind of links to the One Big Text File idea (discussed here and there quite often in around 2005-2006, see e.g. http://www.matthewcornell.org/blog/2005/8/21/my-big-arse-tex... ).
Comment linking /blog/2005/8/21/my-big-arse-text-file-a-poor-mans-wikiblogpim.html
on “Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead”Submitted Is GTD the "Extreme Programming" of Time Management as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAh, the OBTF or "One big text file" meme was making rounds 10-15 years ago. I ditched mine out of curiosity for other systems -- but I'm still surprised how well it actually worked. Calendar, links, drafts of stuff I wrote -- it was all there. I was kind of proud when, at one point, my file (brain.txt) reached 1 MB. I'll just share some of those old links for new kids on the OBTF block. Probably one of the discussio…
Comment linking /blog/2005/8/21/my-big-arse-text-file-a-poor-mans-wikiblogpim.html
on “My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)”Submitted Using word clouds to get a birds eye view of a large prof. programmer's notebook as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI like the idea of the "anti-library" — that there can be great value even in unread books: http://www.matthewcornell.org/blog/2009/4/6/on-keeping-an-um...
Comment linking /blog/2009/4/6/on-keeping-an-umberto-eco-like-anti-library.html
on “Alan Kay's Reading List”Submitted The Intrinsic Poverty of Thumbs Up/Down Popularity Voting on the Web as a story · 1 points
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