Notepad as RAM
Julia's goldfish memory for tasks triggers a full disclosure of his productivity stack, and it's defiantly vanilla: Notepad as short-term RAM where finished tasks get deleted, not archived; Obsidian as long-term memory with zero plugins because the knowledge-graph aesthetic is overkill; browser tabs as a to-do list; his own Zenota app replacing Keep; a free Notion holding the legal documents. Julia, meanwhile, gets prescribed the socio's Jirita, a win-win: she gains a method, Carlos gains a user.
// trace: where this idea came from
- ↳ video diary @ 17:01 (el bloquito es la RAM)
- ↳ video diary @ 19:20 (Obsidian es el largo plazo)
- ↳ Entry 207-3: The vanilla setup (el setup vanilla, versión propia)
The occasion is Julia’s admitted goldfish memory for tasks, each day erasing yesterday’s list ▸ 13:46, and his premise before any tool: think of yourself as a production line, output per unit time, because the best workers are the ones producing more in less ▸ 14:26, and that requires a method. Hers arrives with symmetry: use the socio’s Jirita, so she gets task tracking and Carlos gets a real user’s feedback, “un win-win para ambos” ▸ 15:40.
His own stack he describes in Cherny’s word: “muy vanilla… nada modificado, nada automatizado” ▸ 16:25. The core is Notepad, el bloquito, used explicitly as RAM, short-term memory ▸ 17:01: video topics, Severo’s task list, feedback as it arrives, and on completion, delete ▸ 17:44. He names the cost without flinching: no backlog, no analytics of what got done ▸ 18:03. Prioritization is spatial, related tasks dragged adjacent so Antigravity can take them as a batch ▸ 18:24.
RAM que se borra, disco que no se decora →
When a project goes dormant, its notes migrate to Obsidian, the long-term memory ▸ 19:20, Reisi’s standby notes the latest deposit ▸ 19:29, and Obsidian stays vanilla too: folders and notes, no plugins, no concept graph, “eso es un overkill para mí” ▸ 20:56. Around the core: a free Notion holding the company’s legal documents where the partners can find them, kept free because costs are being minimized to the bone ▸ 22:14; open browser tabs doubling as a to-do list of things to read and watch ▸ 22:56, with completion again meaning close and forget; and Zenota, the note app he built for himself, now fully replacing Google Keep ▸ 25:46. The daily ritual is one move, open the bloquito and know the day ▸ 28:01, and the stakes get illustrated with tonight’s deadline: forget the KPI task and the investor meeting becomes a meeting about nothing ▸ 28:16. A method doesn’t need to be clever; it needs to be opened every morning…