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Re: Ask HN: What note taking websites/applcations do you use?

#21
I use QOwnNotes on my desktop, synced to my personal Nextcloud server. I write almost everything in .md files, and link in other files where needed.

On my phone I just use the Nextcloud notes app, since I mainly need to reference existing notes or use checklists.

Re: Ask HN: What note taking websites/applcations do you use?

#22
I use notion pro. I think the free tier is good enough as well.

I use it for personal knowledge management and organizing my life.

All my notes are in it, as well as interesting tidbits from podcasts, YouTube.

I’ve implemented Cal Newports productivity/time blocking method in it as well.

there’s lot of cool templates and community around it as well if you want to get the most out of it.

Re: Ask HN: What note taking websites/applcations do you use?

#24
Unpopular take - but after trying all the others I went back to Evernote. I tried Apple Notes, Joplin, OneNote, Simplenote, Obsidian, and the others, and nothing has the features, workflow, and maintains sync as well as Evernote. You can list all of your criticisms and I'll probably agree with most, but I value time and convenience and Evernote just works. Always.

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#25
At work, I've been pleasantly surprised by Slite for team notes. The note-taking and search experience is fine, no complaints. The "catch up" view gives a global view of all new/recently-updated docs, which is really useful for seeing what happened in meetings I couldn't attend, e.g. sales calls.

Re: Ask HN: What note taking websites/applcations do you use?

#28

Dendron for its blazing speed and its ease of use. https://www.dendron.so/

What does "blazing speed" mean in the context of a note-taking app? Using notepad and a basic markdown file is also blazing fast, but that doesn't tell me anything about it? What are the specific features that made you choose Dendron over other knowledge management tools? I'm not trying to be adversarial, I'm genuinely curious.

The main impediment for knowledge retrieval in apps like obsidian/roam etc. are that the notes cannot be retrieved easily, especially as the number of notes scale. (Maybe, Obsidian users might disagree with this point, but that was my assessment.)

Dendron is built for ease of retrieval of notes. It is built mostly for devs. Now, I can retrieve forgotten syntax easily in Dendron when compared to other apps. The fact that is is built on top of VS code helps.

Re: Ask HN: What note taking websites/applcations do you use?

#29

I use Standard Notes[0] although it doesn't support images. Evernote supports images, but Evernote isn't as private as Standard Notes. There is also Joplin[1] if you really need images, and you can either self-host it or use their cloud[2] offering. [0] https://standardnotes.com/ [1] https://joplinapp.org/ [2] https://joplinapp.org/plans/

I really like standard notes, if you switch editors to their built in Bold Editor (https://standardnotes.com/features/bold-editor) you can embed images.
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