Ask HN: What note taking app do you guys using as a developer? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What note taking app do you guys using as a developer?

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Post by _f9cu » Sat, Mar 08, 2025, 5:58 PM UTC

Pen and paper. Walls, palms. Sometimes just pen. Most of the time I revist the same place which gave me the idea.

Re: Ask HN: What note taking app do you guys using as a developer?

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Post by mikewarot » Sat, Mar 08, 2025, 9:18 PM UTC

I've got a lot of notes in WikidPad, which seems to be a dead open source project.

Re: Ask HN: What note taking app do you guys using as a developer?

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Post by hnthrowaway0315 » Sat, Mar 08, 2025, 10:19 PM UTC

I realized there is little that deserves preservation.

- Business logic/knowledge changes every time I switched company/industry. And I want to be as far away from business as possible, provided I still get hired;

- Technical knowledge is best preserved in code, or design documents in Markdown or whatever.

Re: Ask HN: What note taking app do you guys using as a developer?

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Post by CER10TY » Sat, Mar 08, 2025, 10:40 PM UTC

rahmansahinler1 wrote: post #13

mejutoco wrote: post #9

Obsidian. All markdown files that you control. You can always sync it with Dropbox or any other if you choose to. Markdown files will be readable forever, and it is free.

I will try Obisidian for sure. But can we interactively do something with taken notes, like dragging them etc?

Late to the party, but there's a "canvas mode" in Obsidian where you can sort of group notes together and drag them around. Other than that, it's also got a graph view, so provided you tag and link notes properly, it will show you related notes in the graph.

Re: Ask HN: What note taking app do you guys using as a developer?

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Post by cryptbro » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 4:39 AM UTC

Confluence. VSCode Readmes. Google docs.

Re: Ask HN: What note taking app do you guys using as a developer?

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Post by cryptbro » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 4:40 AM UTC

card_zero wrote: post #15

A bunch of arbitrarily nested folders with somewhat ambiguous names, a simple text editor, plain text files, and cynicism.

And grep?

Re: Ask HN: What note taking app do you guys using as a developer?

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Post by epirogov » Sun, Mar 09, 2025, 9:41 AM UTC

On Windows I have notepad++ for me and on Linux Kate is the best. I know, this just text editors but in a couple with Visual Code and annotation plugin to this is a scalable way to find needed Linux commands that works, categorize important notes :

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Artifici...

Previously I used OneNotes, but git is better to works from 5 my workstations with collisions.