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Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#32The notes app in my Mac. Notes are quick and dirty - they'll end up in Jira / Confluence / Email / Trello..
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#33I use a command line app called nb to manage my markdown files and a single markdown file per week, named after the first day of the week. For instance, this week's is called "Weekly Summary - 2021-09-13".
The format is an H2 for every day, named after the day's date, followed by an outline that covers what I worked on, including details that stood out, links to tickets and slack discussions, etc.
If I ever need to embellish upon a point, I add an H3 as the subheader and write up whatever needs embellishment. Same goes for useful queries I might want to reference later and other daily scratches. This makes for a useful [TOC] for apps that support it (I'm using typora)
In slack we have a room we post low-detail lists of what we worked on for the day. I generally just copy and paste my daily outline to it. It's TMI for the team, but the ease of doing so ensures I post consistently, and since a lot of my work tends to affect a lot of the team, I think those concerned tend to appreciate the extra detail.
Also, like @OnACoffeeBreak, I use a full sized notebook and a fancy pen to help keep me focused during meetings or when I need to sketch out an idea.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#34Text file + Forward (forwardapp.co) - bought the source for an app called Jot before it shut down and brought it back online as Forward. Totally biased and I love it, all credit to the original author Dan Hopwood.
Forward sends me an email tomorrow, next week, with all of the notes I tag for that day. Takes it off my mind until I need to think about it.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#35Vim with potwiki, dumb simple, super fast to call up, always in context of the code editing, etc. Take notes at the top, then easily add them to their own files. Git-commit once in a while.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#36OneNote. One section for each year, one page for each week. Copy unfinished todos from the last week at the being of every new week.
OneNote is pretty awesome. I don't know why these Google lovers can work without it.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#37Roam research, infinite scrollable timeline with tags and date breakdown
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#38I do most of work in Emacs and use various notes files which I edit in org-mode. For example I have general 'personal.org' and 'research.org'. Then, on projects I work on I usually have misc .org files under 'doc/' directory. Such as, 'ideas.org', 'todo.org', etc. They are easy to edit in emacs with formatting and collapsing levels, and yet are readable with 'less' or could be even edited with 'vi' if I ssh somewhere.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#39At work, One Note by week-day eg. W107 Mon (since I started). It's nice between One Note and Teams can globally search terms to fix an error that other people have fixed already.
Personally working on it... so many options (I prefer making my own) just talking about approaches to data store.
I've already made an encrypted at rest url-based web notepad and also a cross-platform app (desktop/mobile) with the API hosted by a local RPi.
I'm in the process of making a Chrome extension one just because I'm always in Chrome.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes throughout your work day?
#40org-mode.
with org-crypt for the private stuff.
i mix my todos with my notes.
though I don't mostly find taking notes that useful at work. if something is involved enough, i'll update our wiki, or right a tutorial. most of my real note-taking is in my code itself. much of the other stuff has a trail of communications that can be searched.