A diary in Workflowy, per project. The diary is distinct from to-do list (for that I have a separate section in Workflowy, called Projects, and a smartphone to-do app for next actions).
Workflowy seems nice and easy to use. Will check it out!
Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?
#72I use mnemonics like memory pegs when I need reminders. I like to be freeform so I also have several small paper notebooks going at once. Daily journal entries and longer stuff goes in markdown files in folders on Dropbox. I like Regexxer or Grep or ag for searching those. Google Keep for longer notes if on my phone. Hi-Q MP3 Recorder for Android if I need to do voice recordings. I don't like transcribing those voice…
Yep, transcribing voice notes yourself sucks. Did that a few times - however I like recording voice notes so gotta find a solution here too.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?
#73http://forwardapp.co/ - we bought the app 'Jot', rebranded it and brought it back for this purpose
Interesting, going to check it out - iOS only so far?
Re: Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?
#74I write markdown files with Typora, backed up and synced with Resilio sync. I still use Evernote for clipping web sites. I'm working on a web clipper that saves directly to markdown so I can finally ditch Evernote.
Are you building a browser extension for this or how can I imagine using your tool?
Re: Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?
#75I write markdown files with Typora, backed up and synced with Resilio sync. I still use Evernote for clipping web sites. I'm working on a web clipper that saves directly to markdown so I can finally ditch Evernote.
Are you building a browser extension for this or how can I imagine using your tool?
Definitely a browser extension for clipping highlighted portions of websites and convenient browser integrations. I don't want to do the conversion to markdown in the extension itself because I also want to do some minimal processing, like download images so the resulting markdown file can be viewed offline. That requires either a desktop application or a service. I've been toying with the idea of integrating with dropbox, google drive, etc so you can choose which folder the markdown file and all supporting material will be saved to. Then you can read and edit the markdown with whatever editor you want. The clipping experience would appear to be entirely in the browser extension, just like with the evernote clipper.
As a UX guy, how would you approach this?
Re: Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?
#76* Ad-hoc tasks likely without immediate dates: Any.do * Long term notes without tasks or deliverable dates: OneNote * Short term notes pending a permanent home: Apple's IOS Notes * Dated tasks: Google Calendar
Nice, did you have a chance to try the "assistant" mode of Any.do?
The "assistant" has made an appearance on really strange tasks that were in my Someday bucket. Like trying to help me by a brassiere, which is something I'd like to take care of myself.
I don't understand how to tap into the assistant from the phone app. If the assistant is evaluating my list without my request, the assistant can't make heads or tails of my tasks and so does not make an appearance.
All in all, not really all that helpful.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?
#77DropVox, and then configure Evernote desktop to auto-import and remove/cleanup the audio file/s at the same time.
Do you get transcripts from dropvox / are they searchable?! (Looking for something like this..)