I whipped up a quick little extension for Alfred that lets me very quickly jot down time-stamped text. The hope is that if I make it ridiculously easy to log what I’m doing and when, then maybe I can have better records of what I’m doing and it will be easier for me to switch back to task after interruptions. I can also look at where I’m spending my time.
I have this extension mapped to the keyword “nj” (for “nvALT Journal”). I activate Alfred and type “nj <text>” and the extension automatically opens up nvALT and makes sure that there’s a note with the current date in the form “YYYY-mm-dd” and then appends my text to the end of the note with a 24 hour timestamp in front of it. It then switches back to the application that I was previously in so I can go immediately back to whatever I was doing.
I tweaked it a bit to allow non-English characters as well.
https://gist.github.com/3297504
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Great extension, thank you Marc! Additionally, what parts do I need to delete from your script to post without time stamp continuously into one file? I know, this is probably very easy, but as I am new to applescript I did not mange on my own. Thanks.
Hey sample,
If you want to take out the timestamp, then look inside the .alfredextension bundle for a file called
info.plistand then remove all the stuff that referencestheDate, etc.Thank you!