Scratchpad
Published June 4th, 2006 in GeneralI’ve a new way of organizing snippets of information that I’ve been using. I have a single file called Scratch.txt saved at the root of my home directory. If I have a little snippet, like a URL, a formula, a price estimate or any other little piece of data that doesn’t have a home, I put it in this file. I use the awesome
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Item: Intel iMacs for development
Purpose: Development and resource for students
Number of Items: 2
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ACM Cost: 1163
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f = io.open("play.txt","r")
text = f:read("*all")
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ssh -X mronge2@csil-linux35.cs.uiuc.edu
lol, I have the exact same setup. I have a file called SCRATCH.txt that sits in my dock. Whenever I need somewhere to quickly edit text I use that file. I normally don’t delete what I have done I just keep adding stuff to the bottom. And of course I also use textmate