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Notepad++ for quick, disposable notes, drafts, etc. I just open a new tab and start writing. Tabs are automatically saved somewhere and will reopen with the app (I have a personal goal to hit the max).
I don't often refer back to notes nor can I stick to any sort of "system", so this approach works well for me.
I mostly write Markdown notes in VS Code. With the help of some Bash scripts, Pandoc and Calibre, they are converted into PDFs, ebooks and websites. When I need, I use Git to sync the notes between different devices. I chose this method because VS Code is highly customizable (I make my own extensions) and because there are tons of other tools to work with Markdown and Git. I use those other tools as needed. Being abl…
I start by using plain text Markdown files so that I can use many different programs, workflows, and it is future proof. What do I consider Notes? Documentation, reference materials, ideas, journaling, and task management. For documentation I use a programmers text editor. Mostly VSCode, but I still use BBEdit, Sublime and others For the past couple of years the primary application I use for everything else is NotePl…
Everyone has their own preferences but $100 a year for a note taking app that will need a third party service to sync seems a little rich.
Yes I use Apple to sync the files between the NotePlan apps.
And I use my own tools to keep my NotePlan text files sync'ed to my KDE Linux Workstation where I can edit them in VSCode.
I won't say $100 is cheep, but then again I paid over $150 a year (more like $400 today)for a MSDOS Word Process in the 1980s.
I mostly write Markdown notes in VS Code. With the help of some Bash scripts, Pandoc and Calibre, they are converted into PDFs, ebooks and websites. When I need, I use Git to sync the notes between different devices. I chose this method because VS Code is highly customizable (I make my own extensions) and because there are tons of other tools to work with Markdown and Git. I use those other tools as needed. Being abl…
I've been working on configuring my VS Code for notetaking, I'd love to see more details of your setup if you'd be willing to share.
I’ve got certain scripts that iterate these folders and merge the notes into a single huge document that is automatically sent to Pandoc (to make EPUBs and PDFs) and to Calibre (to make Kindle-compatible ebooks). In some cases, separate documents are generated for specific folders.
These scripts also validate the notes with markdown-lint, proofread them with a custom extension, and remove all footnotes from them. By convention, my notes do not have any duplicated content, and all footnotes in them are secondary stuff that can be removed from the ebooks to maximize readability.
To use within VS Code itself, I’ve created some extensions. They enable things like reformatting text before pasting, clicking a single button to send a note to the printer, and validating that certain concepts and names are written in a consistent manner, to facilitate search.
I used to generate websites from the notes, but decided to stop doing that for the moment. It was like a rudimentary static site generator, lacking in features, so I decided it was best to integrate a proper SSG into my system in the future.
My goal is to automate anything that can be automated in terms of note-taking, so that I focus on actually writing notes and reviewing them periodically.
Hope this helps :)
Apple notes because of their zero friction in syncing and collaboration with any other Apple ecosystem user. Obsidian for technical things in my work computer.
Another pro for Apple notes that rarely gets mentioned: top class RTL support, notes woth mixed direction text and even lines It has same defaults for all of this, which can be overridden on a per note or per line level with a quick hotkey on desktop Along with search that properly ignores Arabic diacritics, unless I search with diacritics where it also matches diacritics With a very clear, nicest looking modern Arab…