Ask HN: Where do you keep your notes?

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Post by Ezhik » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 1:42 AM UTC

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Post by leephillips » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 1:54 AM UTC

On my computer.

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Post by eli » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 2:18 AM UTC

nvAlt synced to Dropbox

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Post by slap_shot » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 2:28 AM UTC

OneNote. I keep a crazy amount of notes that it's the best I've found. Excellent Mac and iPhone clients.

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Post by ericbn » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 2:35 AM UTC

I fell kind of ashamed of saying, but: the Mac Notes app, with data synchronized with my Google or iCloud account. Tried Evernote more than once, and gave up all the times I tried.

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Post by niftich » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 2:38 AM UTC

Can you provide more context to stimulate discussion?

I keep different notes in different places. Most of my notes are on paper, although there's also a good amount as plain text files saved on various computers I own. More incidental, spur-of-the-moment notes are in Google Keep, which serves as a (very) poor man's Evernote that syncs between my phone and the cloud.

The bulk of my notes isn't kept in the cloud because they're heavily context-dependent, and I get little benefit from having them available at all times.

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Post by Ezhik » Sat, Oct 08, 2016, 4:19 AM UTC

niftich wrote: post #6

Can you provide more context to stimulate discussion? I keep different notes in different places. Most of my notes are on paper, although there's also a good amount as plain text files saved on various computers I own. More incidental, spur-of-the-moment notes are in Google Keep, which serves as a (very) poor man's Evernote that syncs between my phone and the cloud. The bulk of my notes isn't kept in the cloud becaus…

I don't really have a specific direction I want this post to go in except for 'notes'. Apps people use, organization methods, digital vs paper, all fair game.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you keep your notes?

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Post by brudgers » Tue, Oct 11, 2016, 1:22 PM UTC

For anything important, a notebook. . In terms of the CAP theorem it trades strict consistency for availability. I find physical reality is a useful abstraction with a well defined API and good persistence model -- also widely available and open source.