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Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?
#32For small notes I use Apple Notes app. Intentionally I don't keep too many notes in it.
Some larger ones graduate into a .txt file which go into a iCloud folder.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?
#33Dropbox's Paper
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?
#34For everyone using OneNote I'd like to make the comment that there are actually 2 versions of OneNote that Microsoft makes. There is "OneNote" and "OneNote 2016". Windows has both versions while your phone and Mac has only the lesser featured but more modern looking "OneNote". Personally, I got a Parallels VM running on my Mac with Windows just so I could use "OneNote 2016". Many more features including deeper organi…
Thanks for alerting us to this!
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?
#35Notational Velocity on the Mac, even if it isn't updated it still quickly stores and organizes (good for rough or final works). I'll use TextEdit or iA Writer if I need to actually work with the note or to publish. Sadly at least once a month I still need to use Office for Mac for something. I don't personally have a need to save or insert data, images, or other content. If I really need to I'll insert the online URL…
Notational Velocity is great! I made a web app (in Vue.js) that's inspired by NV (https://notational.co). All the code is on GitHub (https://github.com/tmm/notational).
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?
#36A mixture of things. From the top of my head:
Folders of plain text files, mindmaps, paper
Having said this, the actual challenge for me lies in deciding what notes are actually worth storing. I recently browsed through the hard drive of on old laptop and was astonished to find out how maybe 95% of the notes were completely pointless. I guess a good deal of notes are only important the moment you are writing them down (to make something clear to yourself). In other words, much could have been written directly into /dev/null.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?
#37I was using physical calendar notebooks, such as Moleskin. I also tried productivity apps like as Wunderlist or Evernote. But nothing worked for my workflow. So I made my own (Mac, iPhone, iPad) app called NotePlan (http://noteplan.co).
I have created NotePlan out of the need for a productivity app, which is not just pushing around todos or collecting them in buckets. But which resembles the way many people plan in the “real world”: Using calendars, notebooks and bullet points. If you love, Org-mode, Bullet Journal, GTD or TaskPaper, you will love NotePlan.
Here the most important features:
* One dedicated note for every day in your calendar
* A Calendar gives you an overview of all your notes
* General notes decoupled from the calendar
* Everything saved and synced with iCloud Drive as plain text
* Markdown support with custom flavour for marking tasks
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?
#38I use org-mode (in spacemacs), folder synchronized on some cloud, private notes GPG encrypted. For me it's more than perfect. I always find what I am looking for immediately, org-mode is useful in lots of other use cases, emacs has been around for a long time and I trust will stay for the rest of my life...
I second org-mode. Previously I was using OneNote but that is limited to Windows, and on Linux I need to be always online to use the web interface. To add one more use case: I was thinking of creating flash cards and came across org-dribble which provides the entire functionality of creating and revising flash cards using Supermemo method. When it comes to note-taking and organising, org-mode is an excellent choice.
I think it is org-drill.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?
#39I keep my notes from books, talks, etc as a repo of markdown files so I can access it anywhere. I also have a second private repo for personal notes. For meeting notes, I like Dropbox Paper.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?
#40Standard Notes. Simple and encrypted. Available on every platform. Markdown and code editors, as well as custom themes. https://standardnotes.org
I was going to ask why you use this over Apple's Notes app. It looks like you're the author, so perhaps even why you chose to build this? I like the themes and Markdown support.