iPad pro + magic pencil.
Ask HN: How do you take notes other than using paper?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes other than using paper?
#12"I found that there is no app that allows me to quickly mix together text, math formulas, images, sketches, graphs, and other kinds of media" OneNote - with add-ins
I like OneNote, I really do.
But it is not always quick. If you're using a pen and/or the tablet version of outlook, there are some cumbersome menus to navigate. Still not quicker than paper.
EDIT: Though after a reread of the original post, it is faster than LaTex.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes other than using paper?
#13Pen and Paper works for me. If it aint broke, don't fix it.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes other than using paper?
#14Google Keep is good for the odd note, list, or whiteboard picture.
I'd like to have a CLI version.
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#15iPad pro + magic pencil.
Honest question, but do you like the iPad Pro? I've eyed it, but that's a lot of money to spend for the addition of a pen. I assume you do design or something else that makes that more worth it for you?
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes other than using paper?
#16Google Keep is good for the odd note, list, or whiteboard picture. I'd like to have a CLI version.
Since you'll be in the command line and limited to text, why not just text files? deft for emacs is like Notational Velocity. If you store your notes in dropbox, you've got them in the cloud.
There's also org mode, vi, todo.txt, etc. etc. etc. etc....
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes other than using paper?
#17I used to use OneNote a lot (partly because my high school used it a lot). It was alright, but the free version on the Windows Store is horrible and I don't have enough use for it to pay for the full version.
I've tried using the notes app on my iPhone but it's just not quick enough to write things down in - although that might be because I have a 5s with a smaller screen than newer phones. I've used it when I have been without a pen a couple of times, but other than that I have very little use for it.
I think I used Evernote once and it just seemed like an early-2000s version of one note.
Ideally what I want is MediaWiki in a .exe or .app. Most other wiki programs seem to be inferior to OneNote for me, but I'd love to have my own offline Wikipedia of my life and projects.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes other than using paper?
#18Used to use Evernote, then Notes in macOS, but I'm still a pen and paper person as it allows me ultimate flexibility. I also record audio on my phone, write a time in my notes next to anything I need to review later. I just don't retain the information nearly as well if I type. Using a pen/pencil like tool on a screen wouldn't work for me as I use the texture of the pen and paper as a guide to look away while still scratching down notes. As weird as it is, the act of turning a page and marking the date in the corner places a marker in my mind for when I review; practically takes me back to the moment I was writing the notes.
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#19I keep notes in text files in sublime. If I want to search, I just do a text search. I generally have many, many tabs (don't the old folks call them text buffers?) open, and when I go through a weekly cleanup of these I find that they fall into two categories:
Stuff that was just, say, a couple of lines of code or urls, short todo lists that have been todone, long lists of credentials, research.
I delete the stuff I don't think I'll need and store the rest in an encrypted store on my main machine.
To your question, these things are things I almost never want to share with folks, my sketches / doodles /etc are generally ephemeral on purpose, and my images are usually parts of projects or collections of similar media, not part of my "notes", and code, of course, is very good in plain text.
Keep in mind that there are reasons why people, myself included, still take notes on pen and paper. For me, it's a single function thing that keeps me focused on the people I am meeting with... I've never gotten a distracting email on my spiral full of graph paper.
So here's an issue you can solve: I totally don't think that there is an "upgrade" for pen and paper in the situations that I use it.
Re: Ask HN: How do you take notes other than using paper?
#20"I found that there is no app that allows me to quickly mix together text, math formulas, images, sketches, graphs, and other kinds of media" OneNote - with add-ins
What add-ins if I may ask?