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Notational Velocity broke? Any details? I'm continuing to use it happily on High Sierra.
Yeah High Sierra was what broke for me: https://github.com/scrod/nv/issues/365 Maybe it's working now?
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You are taking a very narrow look at these software.
Why not be conscious about these things? I have a lot more than 128GB on my system, but I still don't want to install dozens of 100+MB apps to solve just one problem each. Eventually you will run out of disk space with that approach. Why install a single-purpose Markdown editor when you already have VSCode installed that is an excellent Markdown editor plus a lightweight IDE for nearly every language ever? One tool,…
Because life is short.
We've built Notejoy as a collaborative notes app. So it's not only great for personal notes, but also great for easily sharing notes with your team with real-time editing, @mentions, threaded comments, and more.
But also built with a lot of the productivity features you expect from a note-taking app, including Mac, Windows, iOS apps, keyboard shortcuts / markdown accelerators, syntax highlighting, clean distraction-free interface, and more.
Google Docs for long form stuff. Apple Notes for the rest. I honestly didn't realize how much I was using Apple Notes on iOS and Mac, until recently. The ability to create folders, and iCloud sync (after it became useful enough) are amazing. I only wish Apple Notes would get a lot more features similar to Google Doc, but at that point it'd be an another replacement for Apple Pages. I was never hooked to Evernote, des…
Unless I write it myself, but I'm trying hard to avoid that temptation, as are probably half the people commenting here.
For longer-form stuff (brainstorms mostly) I switch to Markdown in whichever text editor I'm using that day, and... ooh I'm setting myself up here... Dropbox.
But I am aware that in twenty years from now none of these tools might be alive anymore. I keep exporting and backing up my data because of this. And my backlog of "to be migrated" grows longer and longer.
For now I find it more convenient to use a tool with a sleak interface that offer all the features I need in a "personal wiki" / note taking app: inserting screenshots into notes (this is a killer feature for me), beutifully rendering my markdown text, fulltext search, nested folders (or tags in Bear lingo), syncing across all my devices. The alternative is too cumbersome: For instance Emacs/Org + rgrep + Dropbox for syncing + git + a bunch of .emacs entries that allow me to insert screenshots.
Edit: Forgot to mention IdeaNote. Used it when I tried to replace my iPhone with a BlackBerry device. Excellent app. I could create super long and time stamped journal entries / logs / notes on the superb keyboard of the BB device in seconds (never got used to typing on a touchscreen). But eventually the BB got abandonware itself. And so the app. Luckily I could pay 50$ to export my 3k notes. Migrated them successfully to Evernote with a bit of Ruby script.
Edit 2: Lesson learned for me: No tool is going to be there forever. Need to have a clear concept for how I will keep my data independent from tools du jour.
I use a combination of iThoughtsX and Evernote. I find myself in a lot of situations where information isn't coming to me in a particularly organised fashion - interviews, presentations with several presenters, being on the receiving end of braindumps, etc. For those situations, I really need a mindmap app to be able to reorganise information with minimal effort into a structure that makes sense to me. It's a not-che…
It really depends on how you do note-taking. In my case, I take notes related to my research projects, meetings and things I find useful, which require me to find a software with Latex, MathJax support. I don't like latex code inside my note, I like the rendered view. Second requirement is that this software should be mobile support. On the bus, on waiting line etc, I should be able to edit/add notes. Outliners are g…
My new employer provided a tablet PC with a stylus running Windows and [OneNote](https://products.office.com/en-US/onenote). Taking notes on that system with excellent handwriting recognition was a revelation. The tablet was pretty clunky by today's standards, but it worked well. It was particularly useful for generating meeting notes in real time and projecting them during meetings.
After moving to another employer, I no longer had access to such a tablet but used [TiddlyWiki](https://tiddlywiki.com) to keep my notes. It was great until the number of notes became large (in the thousands).
After that, I became an early adopter of [Evernote](https://evernote.com). It was an adequate note-taking app, but the killer feature for me was searching for text in images. At that time, we put meeting notes up on a whiteboard. After the meeting, I could take a picture of the whiteboard, insert it in Evernote, and search it any time after that. I maintained a subscription to Evernote until the end of 2016 until they got squirrely about their subscriptions and some privacy issues.
After several years absence, I went back to TiddlyWiki. It was very much improved. But after importing thousands of notes, it became too slow at editing. The search was on for another system.
I looked at several open-source tools under active development:
* [TreeSheets](http://strlen.com/treesheets/) has been around a long time and has some unique features for organizing your information. * [CherryTree](https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/) it has been around for quite some time. Very long feature list. Very long wishlist too. * [BoostNote](https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote) bills itself as a note-taking app for programmers. It has clients for lots of platforms and can keep them all in sync. * [iA Writer](https://ia.net/writer) is very focused on writing.
I committed to [Collate](https://collatenotes.com) for awhile, even bought a license, but development seemed to stop shortly after I paid for it. And it keeps asking me to re-enter my license key. So, slowly moving off of it. And no more closed-source apps.
These days, my notes usually start short and then get longer and more detailed over time. Often they include mathematics, so typesetting math is crucial to me. Joplin fills the bill very well. It's almost perfect for me. But linking to other notes is a bit clumsy.
I set up a self-hosted [MediaWiki](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki). It did everything I wanted (and way more) but was more cumbersome to administer than I wanted to deal with.
What I finally ended up doing was writing my own wiki.
* It uses a version of Markdown that can typeset math (_via_ [MathJax](https://www.mathjax.org)) and accepts wikilink syntax as well. * Syntax highlighting for program snippets. * It seems to be cross-platform. (I started development on Windows, now do it on macOS, and can (but shouldn't) self-host it on a Linux server. * It runs on a desktop. (I can't read long notes with math on a phone and tablets are pushing it a bit with my poor vision.) * It's written in Clojure and ClojureScript, languages I enjoy working with. * The editor I wrote has a real-time preview (but the scroll bars don't' sync yet.) * The editor is compatible with Grammarly, so I get some help with my atrocious spelling and grammar. * All data is stored locally in a SQL database but can be exported to Markdown files with one keystroke. * Pages can be exported with YAML so that they can be imported directly to my blog. * and on and on.
Another option that might be useful is a [Jupyter](http://jupyter.org) notebook. It looks interesting, but I don't really have much experience with it. There's even a [kernel for Clojure](https://github.com/clojupyter/clojupyter) that I want to check out.
If you have the interest and the desire, I encourage you to look into writing your own tool. It isn't as hard as you might imagine just to get something working. It is incredibly hard to polish things to just the shininess you might want, but that's part of the fun.
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I've found myself doing this as well. I really appreciate the way Sublime Text persists unsaved files without having to give it any thought. I've kept a "scratch.txt" doc open with various notes and hints forever.
same, and also PlainTasks, which is the only tofo list working for me: https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks