2do (https://www.2doapp.com) on iOS/Android/Mac, synced to self-hosted CalDav or popular cloud services. Supports audio memos, can parse email to generate todo items, reliable with thousands of tasks, expressive filter queries, regularly updated to use new OS features.
Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?
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#22http://tiddlywiki.com/
Tiddlywiki, because it lives locally, is insanely fast and there's nothing I think easier/faster than it for making notes and todo's are more or less just notes.
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#23Wunderlist for tasks... Onenote for notes.
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#24https://standardnotes.org
I either use an "ideas" tag in Standard Notes, or have 1 pinned note called "Ideas" or "Journal" that I constantly make updates to.
This is an app I've been building for over a year now. Benefits are encryption + cross-platform sync.
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#25Trello. It's the best. Also Google keep is pretty good for one offs.
Google Keep still does not support markdown does it?
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#26I use the Clear app on iOS. Simple, means I will use it a lot, and I do.
If I need to voice memo, then I just use the stock voice memos app.
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#27Workflowy! The nested bullet structure is so simple and quick but powerful. If ur a vim head there is also vimflowy.
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#28nvALT on the desktop with its text files being in a synced Dropbox folder (so you can access them on mobile through another client).
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#29A diary in Workflowy, per project. The diary is distinct from to-do list (for that I have a separate section in Workflowy, called Projects, and a smartphone to-do app for next actions).
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#30How do you send a reminder to yourself in the far future? How do you verify your own assumptions if they are not validated with future data?
I bacially want this guy, as a Service.