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Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by zhte415 »

Pen, paper. Hopefully there's an agenda, for a conference or meeting, so take notes on that.

Take photo with phone. Send to whoever else needs to know, e.g. meeting minutes.

My notepad is A4 paper cut in half (yeah, A5, but company only stocks A4) with a big bull-clip in the top. When notes are no longer needed, just shred them.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by bastage »

Vinkekatten wrote: post #31

Meetings and information I will need to reference: One Note backed up to a network drive. It's got a nice integration with Outlook meetings, lets me start a note with info about time, date, subject of meeting, location of meeting and participants present. I also keep a password-protected file with non critical passwords here, but don't tell anyone. Day-to-day sketches and TODO's and little note lists: I keep a spiral…

This is just about as close to how I handle most note taking currently.

You can't beat computers for quick searching and Onenote is both "GUI" enough to be friendly to people I have to share with and also does all those other things you mention. (Plus a lot of other cool stuff.)

I also use Sublime/vim in a similar way you mention, although I tend to use that as "RAM" in the sense that I don't save my snippets -- if they're not important enough to document elsewhere then if something really bad were to happen where (at least in Sublime) if a non-saved tab didn't show up at start automatically "oh well". (I've never had that happen though.)

Where I'm failing lately is any kind of physical pen/paper note taking since just the feel of that is great so I've added that into my TODO's of 2017. :)

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by jnbiche »

Chris2048 wrote: post #103
illuminated wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Keep user here as well. It has few things that makes it perfectly fit into what I need: - simple to do lists - create notes with the phone's camera (I usually do this when taking a photo of a whiteboard) - audio recording and transcribing: I can just say my note and Google Keep will make a text out of it with an attached audio recording - sharing: this makes my life sooo much easier. I have one note taking app…

I'd recommend ZimWiki http://www.zim-wiki.org/ - a desktop app. Keep can't keep up with lots of notes :-) ZW is speedy, portable, and extendable.

I actually use ZimWiki as well, but more as a personal blog for technical stuff to refer back to, not as a day-to-day notes app.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by freehunter »

TobbenTM wrote: post #35

I've been a fan of the concept of Quiver ( http://happenapps.com/#quiver ) for a long time, but unable to use it daily as it is Mac only. I love the idea of having different notebooks, being able to easily merge text, code, mathematics and images into one note, and make 'cookbooks' out of them. Someone make it for Windows please.

Agreed, I don't have the time or energy for anything that isn't available on every platform I use. Lots of iOS apps, but if they don't have a Mac app or a web version, sorry. I don't always have my phone on me. Lots of Mac apps, but can I use it on Windows, too? Sometimes I use Windows.

We're a different kind of digital nomad: someone who never settles on one device, OS, or even form factor.

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