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and evernote, where I occasionally drop ideas, save snippets of code or commandline pipelines along with snipped articles from the web usually recipes or long form articles
I would benefit from doing more
More short term I write whatever is happening on especially long narrow ruled legal pads (8.5 x 14) which often still contain lots of information after a few years
For years I used the FreeMind mind-mapping app, but wanted to move all of it to a server that I could use across devices once smart phones came along, and moved to flat text files in Dropbox that I can edit with any text editor. The other thing with FreeMind is that the UX for navigating mind-maps can get unwieldy when they get big. (maybe there are other apps that implement this UX better, not sure). I have also tri…
In what way? I have some pretty enormous ones and they seem fine so far. I'd like it if FreeMind were more actively maintained, but at least it still works basically fine on the latest version of Java.
Evernote has worked well so far and me trying to switch to OneNote didn't work out as well. I'm still open to alternatives, but Evernote has kept my mind organised without a doubt.
What really sold me was the video "Jerry Michalski: Lessons from 15 years using TheBrain" [0], haven't looked back.
It’s good for free-form notes, but also has databases and relations for more structured data. Also has top-of-the-like Markdown and HTML export to get your data out.
You can publish parts of your workspace publicly read-only, or share via email with guests.
* Tomoby:
- pros: fast, good search, really liked local editing, integrates with quick launchers like Gnome DO and Albert which I found essential for quick references, especially programming and Linux commands which, when I want them, I want them NOW. type: "+grep examples" and have a reference to my most frequently used patters in 1 sec is SO helpful.
- cons: sync/mobile solutions are hacky, no longer maintained, Ubuntu 19.04 removed it, not encrypted, Copy & paste to/from other apps (Thunderbird) doesn't work like you'd expect, formatting is not preserved.
* Evernote: meh...used it for a couple years. Liked multi-device support. Their web client wasn't that great and they didn't have a Linux client. I paid for it and put maybe 100 notes in it, but eventually stopped using it and converted back to the free version.
* Dropbox Paper:
- pros: nice editor, have the basics right, integrated with Dropbox which I already use, so no additional cost, good mobile client, really easy to share notes with groups of people (family) or one-offs to others with a link.
- cons: some bugs and bad UX still, no encryption (but Dropbox already has most of my files so I've already sold out a bit to them I guess), loading a browser tab is just slower than the Tomboy UX described above...I find I like using Paper for longer docs or things I'll access on mobile, but it's just not a good replacement for those quick notes that when I want them, I want them NOW!
I've tried a number of other ones over the years, never really found a sweet spot. I actually think something like Tomboy is really the best note taking app, but for it to really thrive, it would need better options for mobile and note sync than Tomboy ever had. Adding end-to-end encryption and sharing would also be great.
I stick everything into Notes on macOS in an unstructured way and just use the search function to go back and find stuff. I also use Trello for more complicated things, but use that way less.