I usually do notes in a plain text files and I LOVE MIND MAPS for concepts and use XMind.
Ask HN: What software do you use to take notes?
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#72Onenote. For me the killer feature is the ability to put text wherever i want, and move it later, i just click where i want to write in the page and type, it really changed the way i take note, it feel more natural and more close to the "paper experience". i tried opensource solution, but all the one i found allow only for "linear" note taking, witch is ok if i need to take a quick note, but if i need to "prototype"…
As a college student I hooked up a microphone (A tiny shotgun mic) and the audio would sync with my notes. It was simply amazing. As a librarian I bought OneNote for the whole student body and taught every freshman for 1.5 hours on how to use it. Less then 2 dozen students said at the end of the year they used it. I no longer purchased OneNote. People are strange.
And it indexes audio, too. Comes in handy reviewing hour+ meetings where we can't remember exactly what was said.
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#73Pen and Paper
Bingo. I often can't read what I've written but it's much easier to flow and get ideas out on paper. Theoretically I want to use OneNote but a nice pen and paper wins.
Re: Ask HN: What software do you use to take notes?
#74Onenote. For me the killer feature is the ability to put text wherever i want, and move it later, i just click where i want to write in the page and type, it really changed the way i take note, it feel more natural and more close to the "paper experience". i tried opensource solution, but all the one i found allow only for "linear" note taking, witch is ok if i need to take a quick note, but if i need to "prototype"…
Really like OneNote too. One geature it really lacks though is real tagging (#hashtags). Ideally keep the current system (ctrl+1 to cycle through checkbox, checked checkbox and nothing is nice) but add tags on top. (If they have added tags and I haven't realized then I'll be happy to know.)
I used to use ``*tag for my tags and just used search worked good
Re: Ask HN: What software do you use to take notes?
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use it for shopping list with my wife. It is awesome for that one feature.
Have you tried wunderlist? My partner and I have a shared shopping list that we both can populate and finish items from—offers a bit more structure and to-do type item features than Keep.
I liked wunderlist but we have a different note for each store with a check box. Nothing beats the keep for shopping list for us. Simple and easy
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#76I primarily use Wunderlist, because it's truly cross platform. I can use it on my desktop, phone and the web just the same. I use it mostly for actionable notes...things I'm planning on doing something about at some point. It's more of an idea bank than a todo list, though, for me.
For more free form note taking I'm using Rocketbook's "smart" notebooks (https://getrocketbook.com/). I can scan the notes to Evernote, and when the notebook gets full, I can easily erase the notes and reuse the notebook.
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#77WikidPad
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#78nvALT and any smartphone voice recorder.
This! Can't believe there aren't more people using nvALT.
My question for iOS nvALT users is, what app do you use for the iPhone?
I've only been able to find Simplenote, which is fine, but it syncs the content of my notes as clear text, which isn't fine.
Is there any other iOS app that syncs with nvALT?
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#79Re: Ask HN: What software do you use to take notes?
#80Depends on type of notes - shopping list google keep(in case they shut it down there's omni notes). Otherwise I use markdown + latex(math) in whatever editor I have at my disposal. Then I view it in e.g. hackmd.io / VSC / neutriNote. I've tried word, onenote but it didn't work for me - writing formulas and equations is much faster in latex. I don't go full latex though because markdown is much more readable in its raw form. Graphs are still pain though, haven't really solved that, especially those without absolute values.