I love this! And have been doing something like this for years.
The zero-effort part is key in my IME: if it's not zero effort, it won't stick. And if it doesn't stick, you won't reap the nonlinear long term benefits. There's the obvious benefit of magically reaching into the past and remembering things. But the hidden power that surprised me was the day-to-day experience of clearing cognitive clutter by typing things out in a place that I trust won't get lost.
Shameless plug: two years ago I hacked together a little node script to give my pile of markdown files a more friendly UI than grep: it would pass them through pandoc and massage the DOM and slap a a bit of JS on it. I've been using it everyday since and it's become my favorite productivity hack. I'm currently in the process of rewriting that ole hack in Go to make it more stable and easy to distribute (and to learn Go!): https://github.com/amirkdv/codex
The zero-effort part is key in my IME: if it's not zero effort, it won't stick. And if it doesn't stick, you won't reap the nonlinear long term benefits. There's the obvious benefit of magically reaching into the past and remembering things. But the hidden power that surprised me was the day-to-day experience of clearing cognitive clutter by typing things out in a place that I trust won't get lost.
Shameless plug: two years ago I hacked together a little node script to give my pile of markdown files a more friendly UI than grep: it would pass them through pandoc and massage the DOM and slap a a bit of JS on it. I've been using it everyday since and it's become my favorite productivity hack. I'm currently in the process of rewriting that ole hack in Go to make it more stable and easy to distribute (and to learn Go!): https://github.com/amirkdv/codex