This is the Sidekick Notepad™, my desk capture companion, here to help me stay organized and look good like a good Sidekick should. And here it is in action, doing what Sidekick™ does best:
When my page got packed, I had to get a little creative with how I used the remaining page space. When I started filling it out, I took inspiration from the Sidekick's more structureful sibling, the Sidekick Planner™ and created a timeline of what I knew I'd be doing that day in quarter-hour increments in the first half of the day and half-hour increments in the second. I also wrote in my 3 (plus 1) priorities in the top of the checklist on the right-hand side to make more space for notes in the main body of the notepad since I knew I wouldn't have to many to-dos. But since this re-designated command center was now wearing a lot of hats, I made sure to segregate these different responsibilities using separator headers, delineated as such by underlining them. The little icons next to these headers come from the different 'add' buttons in the
Octopus Planner app.
Since each fresh page has no labels, I can divide the page out to suit my needs on a page-by-page basis.
As for digitizing each page after I'm done filling it out, the perforated pages make it easy to tear off cleanly and feed it into my scanner at home, which has a built-in OCR function. I can then copy the text from the PDF file created by the scanner into the Notepad app and save it as a plaintext markdown file in my Obsidian vault, adding in the Checkboxes, Headers, and Callouts myself.
Speaking of the three-position checkboxes that are included in the Sidekick Notepad™, The
Velocity theme for Obsidian (and others) also has that feature built-in as well!
(Yet another thing Taskade to this day still can't do)
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