I used Strflow today in conjunction with OmniFocus and it is pretty good for an interstitial journal. I can quickly bring it up and leave a status update about projects. It is especially useful when I’m making a phone call, and log what we talked about.
I actually made two shortcuts, which works on the selected action’s project
- Journal about project: ask a quick status update, then it automatically tags the note with the project name converted to a hashtag
- Open project timeline: opens the hashtag timeline based on the project name
I have created a journaling shortcut for OmniFocus couple of months ago, but it is built on top of DEVONthink. It doesn’t get the project automatically and it is mixed with project related assets which I don’t like.
By the way, I can add pictures to Strflow entries too which is kind of hard to do in DEVONthink.
I used to do interstitial journaling in TaskPaper and I’m not sure yet if Strflow is better or worse than TaskPaper, but at least it is available on iOS too.
These days I’m using TaskPaper for “brainstorming” not journaling. TaskPaper is pretty cool outliner, so I can quickly create session notes related to the selected OmniFocus action. But these are just fleeting notes… I’m using TaskPaper as a temporary thinking tool.
I can actually also share Strflow notes to other apps directly like Day One, or add them to Drafts where I can process and export the, to other places as well. This makes Drafts into a tool which transforms text-based information between apps.
Also, I like how the Strflow timeline made to look like a chat app. In a way it feels like the old Twitter feed, where we just posted random thoughs to get them out of our heads. It is basically a private version of that.