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Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

#41

I'm starting to use Gitbook and Gitbook-Editor for my personal notes. Love the Editor's UI and the fact that I can keep it in my private repository is also pretty nifty. I'm curious to hear what's everyone's workflow

Is it open source still? I only found their legacy version of Gitbook Editor, I would like to hack on it or at least be able to make some custom extensions.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

#42
when I just have my phone, I use an app like Google keep for temporary notes.

However, if I have a little spiral flip pad, I much prefer that.

Anything I put into the phone, I transcribe onto a bigger sketch pad. I feel like having them in the phone is less accessible in some sense. Thought to paper is just easier to for me.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

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Google Keep. It lacks formatting, but it's readily available on all platforms.

Agreed.. Google notes is currently on my watch list. I am sure they would come up with more features..

Why not use Google Docs if you want Google notes with more features? I do and it works great except for my general NSA paranoia.

It's great being able to simultaneously edit a document from the PC and on your phone.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

#45

I 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…

Are you going to support dropbox syncing/android client?

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?

#46

I 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…

Are you going to support dropbox syncing/android client?

Dropbox is in the plans, but it will remain macOS/iOS.
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