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Noteplan [1] has stuck for at least 3 years now. I like that in addition to old-school notes pages, each day has its own page. I capture notes and to-dos when I'm in meetings, and it has a separate view that will aggregate all your to-dos onto the same screen, no matter what day they appeared on. That might be available in many note-taking apps now, but when I converted to Noteplan, I couldn't find that feature anywh…
If I really want to focus and stay organized, nothing beats pen and paper. I’ve tried out note taking apps, writing on my iPad, using my husband’s remarkable tablet, and Obsidian. It’s fun and interesting at first but doesn’t scale. I will however type some notes up, when needed, in Obsidian just for the search functionality. I’m still pen and paper first.
i am planning to add semantic search over my wiki and other places. Another major notetaking tool for me is pictures and screenshots, I've to figure out a way to make a better way to organize/search them in a more meaningful way
I picked it up just a few days ago because I needed to keep notes, code, links, tables… just general information as I worked on projects.
I installed doom emacs because I just wanted some defaults that worked ok, watched a few YouTube videos, it took me a day to pick it up and now I’m totally in love with it!
The tables are awesome, the links even better, being able to move whole blocks of text, collapse sections, mark todos, is awesome!
Don’t worry about “learning” emacs or org mode, just watch some videos to get an idea of what you can do and then just pick what you need.
I’ve tried emacs multiple times in the last decade and it never stuck, but org mode is absolutely fantastic!
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It lets you choose a synchronization backend, offers applications for every major desktop and mobile OS (also has a terminal version). You can create notebooks and subnotebooks to organize your notes. You can also add tags for better search experience. I created notebooks for specific domains (work-related, home improvement, etc.) and also keep a "temp" for quick notes and W.I.P. snippets.
Its only con that it uses Electron on desktop which causes relatively slow start of the application.
Am I the only one who doesn't use a specific note-taking app? What am I missing? If I need to write something down, I just...write it down wherever is convenient. Torn piece of notebook paper, sticky note, markdown file, Apple Notes, whatever. And then refer to it if I need it. I commit to memory anything that's very important to remember. It sounds like a lot of people detail each and every day, and I just don't und…
If you actually find them later, that's great. But if you have to return to a context a few months later, having only one place to look into helps a lot. I'm not writing a journal though it's more like a "start again guide" to various topics.
Am I the only one who doesn't use a specific note-taking app? What am I missing? If I need to write something down, I just...write it down wherever is convenient. Torn piece of notebook paper, sticky note, markdown file, Apple Notes, whatever. And then refer to it if I need it. I commit to memory anything that's very important to remember. It sounds like a lot of people detail each and every day, and I just don't und…
> Am I the only one who doesn't use a specific note-taking app? What am I missing? If I need to write something down, I just...write it down wherever is convenient. Torn piece of notebook paper, sticky note, markdown file, Apple Notes, whatever. And then refer to it if I need it. If you actually find them later, that's great. But if you have to return to a context a few months later, having only one place to look int…