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Samuel Suther • Edited

Really nice Idea, thanks for sharing it.
I will definitely try this too.
At your conclusion, you've wrote: Keep it simple. As simple as possible. Don’t overkill it with tags and projects (the way I did, in the beginning).

What you mean with that. Do you mean the topics, you show in your image are overkill... or is this image still the final (slimified) version ?

Can you give some suggestions how to work with Projects and Tags, and why you choose this way around you did? (BTW: What is the border between "money" and "career"?)

I wonder if there are arguments against having projects like "Business", "Family", "SpareTime", "Learning", "Misc".. and use Topics you do in this section as Tags (e.g. "reading Emails = Business, "watching nonsense at youtube" = "Misc").

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Bilaniuc Dragos

Hi Samuel! Thanks a lot for the support!

The areas in the image are the final version that I use today, as well. What I meant by "overkill" was that, initially, I was trying to put 4-5 extra tags on an entry (like, "free time", "habit", "on computer", "outside", etc). That's because I wanted to see nice reports for, say, how much time I was spending on the computer in a week. But that turned out to complicate a lot the process of starting a new entry - and, as I said, that should be as easy as possble, if you are to do it consistently.

I think your split seems really good! You shouldn't dwell on it too much in the beginning, either way, because you'll see what makes sense for you, as you go.

And to answer your question, the difference between money and career, for me, is that "career" reffers to entrepreneurship and things things that I don't do strictly for money.

Hope this clarified your questions a bit. Let me know if you have other thoughts.

Best of luck in your journey!