Apple Notes is great. The only feature I wish it had is markdown or an easy way to make code blocks, but all of its other features make up for missing it.
I have used many other options, but Notes works best.
Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
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#182Google Keep
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#183Zim (http://zim-wiki.org)
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#184zimwiki pros: * open source * stored as a bunch of linked text files * can version control with git * wysiwyg markdown(media-wiki syntax) editor http://zim-wiki.org/
Yeah, mini-wiki in your file system is cool. Just started using it and have mixed feelings: * The files can live anywhere (say, the Dropbox folder) * The files are plain text * The markup is minimal and there is UI for it * The app is a bit old-school - none of the flat ui, panes, online-email-style stuff. No Electron. All good so far. Yet the app forces the user to organize stuff into linked pages. Let's see whether…
all your '*' are good points, right ?
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#185 Pen and paper
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#186I've given up on using any sort of branded app for notetaking. At best it's open source and the maintainers will lose interest in a few years. When you write things down, you're investing in your future. It's silly to use software that isn't making that same investment. After trying Evernote, Workflowy, Notion, wikis, org-mode, and essentially everything else I could find, I gave up and tried building my own system f…
I had the same sort of idea. I built this when Notational Velocity broke when upgrading to the latest macOS: https://github.com/JesseAldridge/toothbrush It's a single python file for grepping a directory of text files as I type. I have a global keyboard shortcut cmd+J that gives focus to my terminal and I then launch the script by running `t`. Then I can just start typing to search a career's worth of notes. Would be…
There is FSNotes.
brew cask install fsnotes
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#187plain text files and your favorite editor, whatever that is. things that should be encrypted are either gpg encrytped or put in my password manager. Bonus if you format your plain text with markdown or asciidoc or whatever your fav. plain text markup language is. Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be. Put it in a VCS for super double bonus points :) me personally: Vim, asciidoc and in a fossil repo.
Actually, I don't even understand why anyone would think that you need a dedicated app for note taking. - Markdown rendering can be done with pandoc - Structure and search can be done with a solid file structure and grep - Sync can be done with git or any other syncing solution out there. - Encryption can be done with gpg (vim-gnupg) Serious question: What feature is missing from this workflow (assuming the audience…
> I don't even understand why anyone would think that you need a dedicated app for note taking.
You're missing a big part: user experience.
Everything you said, sure, that's great. But the majority of developers (or really just people in general) don't want to spend their time learning each one of those things and trying to piece something together when a single app can do it good enough for them.
I too stopped using a dedicated note taking app but I already understand how to use markdown, git, etc. But for the average user or the user who just wants something to work without trying to look up multiple things or, hell, even the user who wants access on all of their devices like a phone, this solution make absolutely no sense.
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#188Warning: Early stage of development
Thinking Notebook & Markdown IDE
MindForger is human mind inspired knowledge management tool which aims to connect the tradition of outline editors with emerging technologies. Its mission is to help you in organization of your knowledge and associated local, web and real world resources in a way that enables quick navigation, concise representation, automatic interconnections, associative completion and inferencing.
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#189I use Evernote Premium and I’m mostly content with it. It’s worth $95/year to me. There’s no device limit in the Premium edition. You also get full-text search in PDFs and other nice features.
So far I haven’t found any alternative that suits me better. I really like being able to use different notebooks for different purposes and being able to tag individual notes. (This is something that e.g. Apple’s Notes is missing.)
I won’t trust Evernote to stay around forever so my plan is to research alternatives in two years or so just to see if any good alternatives are available. (NTS: I should also make backups of my Evernote data...)
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#190Don’t take notes. If you can’t remember it, it’s not worth knowing. If there is something you want to remember but you can’t, simplify it down to the basics until you can explain it back to yourself in such concepts that you would never forget.
I am tearing appart between these and forgoted really important things