I'm quite happy with Apple Notes. But there are a few things I'd like to fix (Git support, Code highlighting) so I have started on making my own app.
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#12Google Keep across all devices.
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#13I'm quite happy with Apple Notes. But there are a few things I'd like to fix (Git support, Code highlighting) so I have started on making my own app.
Out of interest, did you do research first to see if anything else would fit? I see a big trend on HN of "This doesn't do X, I'll make my own" - we end up with 5000 weather apps and 8000 'game changing' note taking apps.
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#14I use a real-life notebook for anything real-life. I enjoy keeping notes offline. I use a bullet journal style.
For quick meeting notes or todo notes at work, I send myself an email.
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#15Google docs. Sync, offline, voice dictations. I use it many times a day
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#16No mention of Vimwiki yet. I'm a hardcore Vim user so it works well for me.
ww to open Vimwiki and to follow (and create) links and to go up one level. Works like a charm for me.
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#17No mention of Vimwiki yet. I'm a hardcore Vim user so it works well for me. ww to open Vimwiki and to follow (and create) links and to go up one level. Works like a charm for me.
This. I've been using it for years and its one of the things that keeps me the most productive nowadays.
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#18I keep it simple: A bunch of semi-organized markdown files + resilio sync (+ an old always-on android phone for a resilio 'server'). I can continue living in Emacs (and a markdown-friendly android app). I tried to bespoke notetaking things (evernote, google keep, trello, orgmode, et al) before I figured out I was just dumping bits of text and never actually used the organizational/tagging/convenient features. I guess…
I normally use Evernote but its been getting very slow on my phone(2-8 seconds before i can input my text) so I was thinking of writing a simple bot for Telegram that would log my messages and set cron-like reminders. I guess i would search it by sending something like "/s words to be searched for" Is that something you would use?
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#19Hey, maybe http://zenkit.com would be an option for you. You can create different data collections (Kanban Board for example) and then add your data there. There´s also a pretty cool global search feature..as your notes are becoming more and more they might be harder to find so you can just search throughout the whole app. Web-based platform - super easy to use.
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#20I've also done the untitled tabs in Sublime thing.
Workflowy (https://workflowy.com) is worth a try.
It's still very lightweight. You have one doc which has one master root. Then, you can create arbitrarily nested lists of things and zoom in and out of the overall list. You get a daily email of your delta from the day before. There's an okay mobile client but the desktop one is much better feature wise.
I've been using for it everything from an inbox to blog post ideas lately (I just start drafting the post inside Workflowy).