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Ask HN: What tools do you use to take learning notes and organise them?

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Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to take learning notes and organise them?

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Post by cher14 »

I made https://www.breakdown-notes.com Its' a tool to make notes quickly. You can click anywhere and start typing, copy paste text and images from pdf's or other sources, and use a multitude of shapes, arrows and colors. Also it's easy to reorganize / revise your notes: text can be edited like in any other text editor, but it is way easier to reposition text blocks / images. They can simply be dragged anywhere. You can zoom in and out of the map you take notes on, making it easy to get overview or detail.

It works great as a note taking tool while reading a book, or following a course. Searching the notes is OK-ish. You cannot search the notes without opening it. It works best in chrome and is not intended for use on mobile.

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to take learning notes and organise them?

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Post by ismail »

evolve2k wrote: post #16

I love Docear an awesome open-source project that lets go create mind maps of highlighted references from journals you've been reading, but they could do with some more dev assistance. http://www.docear.org https://github.com/Docear/Desktop

Wow this sounds Awesome. Will definitely take a look.

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to take learning notes and organise them?

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Post by EricLima »

Notion.so — It was recommended to me and after playing around with it for a little while, I didn’t want to use anything else. I use it for almost all of my note taking and other note and documentation tasks along with several other purposes. Completely left Evernote and moved everything over to them.

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to take learning notes and organise them?

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Post by ApolloRising »

EricLima wrote: post #24

Notion.so — It was recommended to me and after playing around with it for a little while, I didn’t want to use anything else. I use it for almost all of my note taking and other note and documentation tasks along with several other purposes. Completely left Evernote and moved everything over to them.

This looks great, thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to take learning notes and organise them?

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Post by kingkongjaffa »

spondyl wrote: post #8
conception wrote: post #5

Can you go into detail on what OneNote, EverNote, etc are missing? That said - Workflowy is amazing and changed my life.

As a Workflowy fan, I can also recommend Dynalist

I want this but offline/ self hosted, any ideas?

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to take learning notes and organise them?

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Post by acutesoftware »

cher14 wrote: post #21

I made https://www.breakdown-notes.com Its' a tool to make notes quickly. You can click anywhere and start typing, copy paste text and images from pdf's or other sources, and use a multitude of shapes, arrows and colors. Also it's easy to reorganize / revise your notes: text can be edited like in any other text editor, but it is way easier to reposition text blocks / images. They can simply be dragged anywhere. You c…

That looks like a good tool, which can make some nice visual notes.

There is a typo in your sign up line though (should be weeks)

"Try out for free for 2 week!"

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