Ask HN: What is your favorite way of taking notes?

It depends a bit on my mood, but I generally switch between a zim[0] wiki and plain text / markdown files written in vim.

[0] http://zim-wiki.org/

For laptop, I usually use Evernote or Sublime, depending on how I want to store them. Sublime has some nice plugins that make it really sweet for notes.

For phone, I use Evernote or Jotterpad.

Evernote is only when I really want to store the notes for the future. If they're disposable, I just care about how fast I can write.

BTW, you should also look into being able to type quickly. I find a critical weakness in taking notes on my phone was that I couldn't write as fast as I think, and I would drop a lot of thoughts. I recommend getting enough practice to hit 50 WPM at 100% accuracy.

Notability on iPad with Apple Pencil.

Org-mode. I won’t be wasting any words at it since I think it is well known thing here.

Besides that I use Apple Notes. They sync and work flawlessly between iOS and Mac devices.

And lastly, pen and paper. I like writing things down.

WorkFlowy is incredible

But it’s not open source