Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

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Post by nbaksalyar » Sun, May 21, 2017, 2:49 AM UTC

bigzen wrote: post #10

Org-Mode is great but not perfect. I would be willing to pay a significant amount of money for anyone that can reproduce most of the features of org-mode outside of emacs in a light-weight format. It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult but it hasn't happened yet. People seem to start replicating org-mode, realize how many complex features there are and give fall off before completion. http://orgmode.org/

I'm wondering if it's possible to reproduce org-mode features outside of Emacs at all. I think it relies on the Emacs ecosystem a lot, and that what makes org-mode so great.

I mean, it's very consistent with the editor itself, it's intuitive to pick up and to navigate notes for anyone who's used Emacs before. Would it be comparable in other ecosystems (e.g. in a Web browser)?

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

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Post by pcr0 » Sun, May 21, 2017, 3:42 AM UTC

Google Keep. It lacks formatting, but it's readily available on all platforms.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

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Post by davidchua » Sun, May 21, 2017, 4:01 AM UTC

I'm starting to use Gitbook and Gitbook-Editor for my personal notes. Love the Editor's UI and the fact that I can keep it in my private repository is also pretty nifty.

I'm curious to hear what's everyone's workflow

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

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Post by pfranz » Sun, May 21, 2017, 4:30 AM UTC

I used to use Evernote, but it just go so slow, seems like a larger app than necessary, and had a bunch of functionality I didn't use get in my way.

I tried OneNote, but it didn't stick.

I've been using Bear (Mac platforms only) and have really liked it so far. Free to use, syncing is $1.50/mo. Evernote migration worked pretty well for me.

http://www.bear-writer.com/

http://www.bear-writer.com/faq/Import/Migrate%20from%20Evern...

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

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Post by Falkon1313 » Sun, May 21, 2017, 4:41 AM UTC

I use a mixture of Zim Wiki for personal stuff, Dokuwiki (the portable wiki on a stick install) for my own work-related stuff, and Confluence wiki for work-related stuff shared with the team.

I just find that the wiki format works really well for me.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

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Post by mobitar » Sun, May 21, 2017, 5:06 AM UTC

Standard Notes. Simple and encrypted. Available on every platform. Markdown and code editors, as well as custom themes.

https://standardnotes.org

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

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Post by VladimirGolovin » Sun, May 21, 2017, 6:03 AM UTC

Personal: Evernote, as a big dump of things I may need in the future. I don't use tags, but when adding a note I try to include meaningful keywords which I think the future me may use to find the note.

Work / Projects: Workflowy. Each project gets a dedicated top-level folder in my Workflowy account, and under that are the (Diary) folder for chronological records, and various non-chronological / accumulation folders for things like (Site), (Marketing), etc.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

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Post by jbpetersen » Sun, May 21, 2017, 6:14 AM UTC

A journal made up of both digital logs and a physical notepad, a graph of associations between things, and a wiki for deeper details on specific topics.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

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Post by iEchoic » Sun, May 21, 2017, 6:35 AM UTC

I've been using Todoist. Now that I'm good with the keyboard shortcuts (including the quick-add from the desktop app), I find it to be a lot more effective than Evernote or OneNote was.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

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Post by meitham » Sun, May 21, 2017, 6:39 AM UTC

I write my notes in restructuredtext, and have them version controlled in. GitRepo. Spacemacs support for restructuredtext is as good as vim's. I can also edit my notes from the Web editor offered in GitLab, or GitHub.