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1. Dropbox for all the read-only ( Images, PDFs, Books, important papers).
2. I use IFTTT to autobackup a specific folder (very imp one) from Dropbox to Box.
3. Something I need to edit, like spreadship or docs. GoogleDrive works very well.
4. I keep most important files on atleast two services.
5. IFTTT works great to collect data automaticaly.
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One of the problems of keeping everything in your head is trust. People forget! Maybe you have a great memory, but eventually it'll forget things. And it should! otherwise there won't be room for any new stuff. I don't think we have infinite storage available; at some point things have to be erased to make room. But also, keeping that stuff in a system you can trust frees your brain to do other things. Instead of fal…
Yeah, I've messed around with Method of Loci off and on over the years, but it hasn't done much for me. Probably I'd just need to put the effort in to it, and I haven't. My natural tendency has been a grab bag of sorts; if I want to recall something, I think about a category -- "people", "projects", "trivia", etc. -- to kind of prime my brain in some way I don't really understand, and then it just pukes out a bunch o…
Passwords are a good example of this. I can deduce them(based on a formula), but I don't want to do that every day, so I use 1Password.
But it's not bad to just forget. There are quotes, links, funny pics in my Evernote that I've never used. So I'm now much more selective in my note taking. It's less stressful.
I mostly use Simplenote for ideas and loose notes, and Quip/Evernote for more structured notes. All three sync to all my devices, and while neither are perfect for my needs, they are OK. The problem comes from keeping everything organized (impossible with Evernote and Simplenote with their lack of structure, impossible with Quip since it's docs/spreadsheets-only) and in a way that works with my mind and workflow. I'm…
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I recently started keeping track of a lot of stuff in Tiddlywiki (in server mode). I keep a browser tab open to localhost:8080.
I've used Tiddlywiki in the past but I didn't quite like it (just my experience, I know that a lot of people use it). Switched to dokuwiki and after that to media wiki and I'm using this now, but as you can guess from the question, I'm trying to find/build something better for my needs ;). How do you use Tiddlywiki - do you often search or do you know where did you put some note? What in your opinion are pros and con…
With Zim everything is in plain text files, and it integrates with version control. This makes things more transparent (to me at least), and you can still use some useful things like filtering with tags, searching, todo-list overviews, etc.
I mostly use Simplenote for ideas and loose notes, and Quip/Evernote for more structured notes. All three sync to all my devices, and while neither are perfect for my needs, they are OK. The problem comes from keeping everything organized (impossible with Evernote and Simplenote with their lack of structure, impossible with Quip since it's docs/spreadsheets-only) and in a way that works with my mind and workflow. I'm…
What I would like is a way to organize not only written notes but files too, keeping them where they are in my disk or dropbox/google drive without having to duplicate them in another online service
I have a notebook (moleskine atm, but I've used a lot of other brands/kinds) for sketching out and expressing ideas/insights and I use Evernote for long-term storage, project management, and to store reference material. I also use Safari's reading list to hold on to things I want to read, but don't know if I want to save permanently. Edit: I seriously keep everything in Evernote, whats up with the down votes?
Do you regularly review things in your Safari's reading list or it keeps growing? Because that's the problem in my case.
- one where I keep track of my work: it's half a todo list with bullet points, half notes about my progress for meetings - one where i write ideas, things I want to dig into later
I write in them from bottom to top (so that my last entry is always on top). I basically use them as paper notebooks.
Actually if it wasn't for URL copy pasting, I think i'd use paper and pen.