Ask HN: What do you use to take notes? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by pmontra » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 12:56 PM UTC

Paper during meetings with customers. A5 or even A6. Faster than anything else. Big bonus for drawing diagrams quickly.

The default notes app on my Samsung until I changed phone, Private Notepad now. This is for short random notes.

Several markdown files on my laptop especially for work related stuff.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by srikz » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 12:57 PM UTC

OneNote on a Surface (for handwritten notes) and Google Keep for quick notes and reminders on phone. OneNote is quite slow to sync on Phones

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by eskimobloood » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 12:57 PM UTC

Paper

Quiver[1]: suports markdown and syncs via Dropbox

Mindful[2]: chrome extension

[1]http://happenapps.com/#quiver [2]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mindful-beta/cieek...

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by petetnt » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 12:59 PM UTC

Dropbox Paper currently: syncs automatically with everyone who I want to share the notes with, saves automatically, has an advanced and simple to use editor, keeps track of changes, has comments and so on.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by kNawade » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 1:00 PM UTC

Atom and Markdown. You can even see real time previews with "Markdown preview plus" plugin, upload it to git if need be.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by jenhsun » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 1:00 PM UTC

As a Mac User, I use nvALT for my notes and monosnap for screenshots and image uploads plus sharing. ToDo List I use Any.Do for a while.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by jordz » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 1:01 PM UTC

I tend to switch between Field Notes and Moleskine books, I use a Japenese Kuru Toga pencil (mechanical pencil that sharpens itself while you write) and a Uni JetStream Prime 0.7mm.

On the digital side I use OneNote.

If anyone is interested, this guys instagram says it all: https://www.instagram.com/desk_of_jules/

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by wtfishackernews » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 1:02 PM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #32

Evernote. My Evernote is the only valuable digital asset I have. Everything else is exchangeable.

You may want to read this https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/14/evernotes-new-privacy-ru...

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by DominikSerafin » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 1:03 PM UTC

The good old physical post it notes work best for me if I need to note something quickly.

If there's something that I need to copy/paste later then I just have "Clipboard.txt" on my desktop. Not prettiest but it's fastest and easiest.

If I need to plan something bigger then I use Trello.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?

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Post by illuminated » Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 1:07 PM UTC

jnbiche wrote: post #15

I use Google Keep. It's simple and has an acceptable Android app and web interface. It also accomodates image notes. I don't think you'll find a notes application that has code highlighting, but perhaps I'm wrong...

Google Keep user here as well. It has few things that makes it perfectly fit into what I need:

- simple to do lists

- create notes with the phone's camera (I usually do this when taking a photo of a whiteboard)

- audio recording and transcribing: I can just say my note and Google Keep will make a text out of it with an attached audio recording

- sharing: this makes my life sooo much easier. I have one note taking app I can use for business, for sharing shopping lists with my wife, house chores with my kids, etc. When Google Keep came out first it was way too simple, but I can hardly imagine my life these days without it.