This is something I’ve wanted to write for a couple of years, but since I haven’t been able to clearly express my thoughts, I’ve refrained from writing anything. I’m still not able to express clearly what I mean, but today I’m going to write about it
I really like that I’m able to access my DT databases from my iPhone (rarely) and my iPad (much more common). But I’ve noticed that I’m not using DT as a note database in my day to day life, instead I’ve played around with Bear, Drafts, Notes, etc. Unfortunately this means that I have notes in different apps and I spend too much time searching for notes. Ideally I would like to use DT for everything (not a problem on my Mac) and let DT be my “true source” for notes/info.
Using my phone I usually want to enter a sentence or a few words, on my iPad I usually tend to write a bit more using the keyword but I still have this problem with small pieces of info (could be text, images, urls, etc)
So I’ve been trying to figure out why I don’t default to DTTG, and - here comes the fuzzy part - I think it’s due to that I experience DTTG as “heavy”, i.e. it feels like a lot of work to open it and enter a quick note. I’m not sure why, but I think it’s due to navigation and the available options for new data. If I want to enter a quick note I just want to quickly do that, for example in Bear I could just open Bear, paste in the info, and close Bear. In DTTG, I need to decide where it should go, create a the note, select which type of item it is, and then paste it in. For me, using the phone/ipad, this is too much work, probably because I’m doing something else at the same time, for example out and about, in a meeting, etc while on the Mac I’m usually in my office working.
So, what do I want to say? Well, basically that the feeling of “heavyness” makes me use DTTG less that I would like to do. I would be perfectly happy if someone of you would pat me on my head and say “poor guy, you’re doing things in the wrong way. Let me show you the way to do it”.
I think my different experiences of DT on the Mac and on mobile are caused by my different ways of thinking about DT on these platforms. On my Mac it’s the place where I organize all info/documents related to my work, my work database is structures with an hierarcical folder structure, it’s easy to enter documents at the right place or just drop them in the inbox for later organization. On mobile, I’m mostly looking things up (still fairly easy because of the way I’ve structured my database) but my main use here would be to store small snippets of info for later, I don’t want to organize them, select what type of info it is, etc. I just want to store, sync and later organize on my Mac. I’ve considered creating a few shortcuts to make things easier, but finding & launching the shortcut also takes time (especially if I would need multiple shortcuts).
OK, I’ll stop rambling, but I would appriciate any advise/suggestion you have on this.