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Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?

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https://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.

> Benefits are encryption + cross-platform sync.

Great features but I find the pricing a bit too high (for a consumer product).

Does it have vim bindings?

Re: Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?

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Pretty primitive but I write the notes on my refrigerator with a dry erase marker. Every morning when I make breakfast I read the notes, check off what I've done, prioritize what I haven't and add new to-dos. If I have to travel that day I take a picture of the notes on my phone and save the pic to my gallery.

I find it more satisfying to physically draw a line through the tasks that I finished, rather than check them off a list on my phone. If a task stays on the fridge for more than a week I regretfully discard it as something that didn't need doing.

As a bonus my kids add notes to my list and draw silly pictures beneath some of them.

Re: Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?

#40
“Hey Siri, remind me to check if anyone relied to my pull request tomorrow at 9:30am”

Then I rely on he fact that pending iOS reminders sit on my phone lock screen until I mark them as completed. I also use the “remind me again in an hour / tomorrow” options a lot.

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