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PTPL 115: There’s Something New at the Top of My One Big Text File
It’s the equivalent of a sticky note on the bathroom mirror
This week — how the top of my OBTF reinforces my values and motivates me to live up to them (with screenshots of it in 6 different apps), plus my first physical book buy of the year (Bob Doto’s A System For Writing).
No AI here; all words, ideas, and faults 100% human made. While paid subscribers are enormously encouraging and help me to keep writing, non-subscribers are always welcome to read for free.
One Big Text File — still going strong after 6 months
I’m not the first and won’t be the last to use one text file as a continuous inbox of thoughts and ideas. A quick internet search of One Big Text File (OBTF) will net you a nice chunk of reading material!
In the past few weeks I’ve started adding inspirational sayings to the top of the…