I usually don’t take notes. When I do need to take notes, I create a .md file in VSCode and store it in a Notes folder.
I’m also currently giving FSNotes a try and I actually like it, it might become my go to notes app.
Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
21–30 of 91 posts
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#22Joplin works well for me, I started using it as an Evernote replacement half a year ago. It's open source, has markdown, syntax highlighting for many languages, comes with a mobile and desktop app and syncs via various services, e.g. Dropbox.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#23Joplin works well for me, I started using it as an Evernote replacement half a year ago. It's open source, has markdown, syntax highlighting for many languages, comes with a mobile and desktop app and syncs via various services, e.g. Dropbox.
+1 for Joplin - works much faster vs Evernote, and also got awesome plugins (including backlinks like obsidian)
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#24Google notes and the trusty speech-to-text function! Done in seconds.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#25For my personal development work, I use a privately hosted wiki. For my workplace work, I use notepad.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#26obsidian md
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#27Joplin works well for me, I started using it as an Evernote replacement half a year ago. It's open source, has markdown, syntax highlighting for many languages, comes with a mobile and desktop app and syncs via various services, e.g. Dropbox.
+1
Mind you that the notebooks seem to be actually "categories".
One notebook can be dragged into another to create trees.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#28This might be crazy but I rarely ever take notes... I try and remember stuff. But my train of thought is usually in my position at jobs someone is requesting something from me.. I come from the operations side of things and slowly did more dev work. People hate me sometimes but I am firm believer in no ticket no work. Put in a ticket if we do not have tracking system first thing to do. They can update the ticket all the want. But if you ask me something in passing I may do it or may not. But if i get a ticket it will get done. Works well no idea if it good idea though.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#29OneNote.
One section for each year, one page for each week.
Copy unfinished todos from the last week at the being of every new week.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#30Workflowy desktop app. If you haven't tried an outliner before, you should. It's as distinct a document type as text, spreadsheet, or imagefile.