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I know a service called exist.io that does a quite similar thing based on API. You can check that out if a central hub for all personal information is what you're after!
Cheers!
To keep snippets in an instantly searchable format I use Google Keep. This is so simple and perfect.
This single text file goes back 30+ years now, and it's survived all the fancy-pants TODO and notetaking software I've tried (a lot of which probably doesn't run any more). I think that long-term habits work best when their tooling is simple.
Somebody else already mentioned it, but emacs org-mode is what I use. I have a document in my dropbox with the cheeky name "life.org", in which I contain everything from my sleep log to my recipes to my work lab notebook. If you're like me, you have trouble sticking to journals/logs. I like having one collapsible document in outline form. I can remember it, and I come back to it. It works well with the natural chaos…
Org-mode is so powerful that it’s hard to discount.
When notebook fills up I scan each page into Evernote, which OCRs it.
Low tech but it works.
Very interested in this as well. I use Notion for more in depth notes but I also want a very low friction way to stream thoughts out of my mind and into an organized place. I built a prototype that does this. It’s got a UI very similar to twitter but organized by day. Special hash tags on a messages at the end of one day appear front and center on the next day so you can get cached in on what you were doing. I gave u…
I'm not an organised note-taker, except for a few circumstances. Most often notes are just actions which get put in email to myself, or my team. Life has changed recently and I've been thinking about some low-friction options for capturing thoughts. Any solution needs to work from mobile and desktop (macOS, Windows, and Linux for me.) On desktop I'm imagining something like an Alfred window popping up on a keyboard s…
Very interested in this as well. I use Notion for more in depth notes but I also want a very low friction way to stream thoughts out of my mind and into an organized place. I built a prototype that does this. It’s got a UI very similar to twitter but organized by day. Special hash tags on a messages at the end of one day appear front and center on the next day so you can get cached in on what you were doing. I gave u…
You might like my https://histre.com/ It (optionally) connects to Telegram, so you don't even have to install an app to quickly save your thoughts. They all go into a "notebook", ready to be organized later (if you so choose).
https://roamresearch.com/ blowing up on twitter - 2/3 notebook, 1/3 database
Seconding this, though I'm not sure if it's what the OP is asking for as he mentions automation. I've been using roam and while I wasn't planning to use it for daily logging I'm realizing the daily log can serve as an 'inbox' for random thoughts and things I read that aren't quite worthy of writing a separate page for. I haven't quite figured out if I'll make it my todo-list/gtd solution yet, for that I'm fairly entr…
> I haven't quite figured out if I'll make it my todo-list/gtd solution yet, for that I'm fairly entrenched in kanban/issue-tracker apps like trello.
I believe both will have to tackled sufficiently before Roam really takes off.
For example, I'd love to be able to:
* Filter for TODO items between $start_date and $end_date
* Filter for TODO items ranked by number of connections (further arbitrary weighting would be really interesting here)
* Filter for TODO items at the intersection of two terms (haven't found an elegant way to do this yet)
> Also wondering how to use it alongside bookmarking tools like pinboard (or if the longer goal is to have better bookmark features).
I'd love to be able to see all the stuff I want to read for #term - this might include books, articles, etc.
Which brings us to content: I really want to read all of this stuff inside of Roam, but there are two approaches right now, neither of which are super comfortable:
1. Copy the whole thing into Roam and process it chunk by chunk. Nice but formatting is a gigantic pain, front-loads a lot of work. Benefit is it saves the content in case it disappears. No easy way to see only the highlights from a certain article as they're all mixed in.
2. Copy metadata and highlights/annotations/quotes into Roam after reading it and creating them elsewhere. More compact but annoying to access original content. Requires yet another tool.