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

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

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Post by hnrodey »

muzani wrote: post #4

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 taki…

Care to expand on the Sublime plugins?

I use Sublime for notes but store them as plain text files. My other favorite Sublime feature is it persists unsaved tabs through app restarts and system restarts thereby giving me the effect of holding on to my notes until I'm ready to actually save. A lot of stuff I just need temporarily.

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

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Post by john00088876 »

Sublime or VS code, as markdown in Dropbox for constant backup and easy roll-back for up to a week or something. I had used Ulysses on the Mac but an iCloud sync bug caused me to lose 8 hours of notes from customer meetings so that was the end of that. VS code has a lot of nice markdown plugins and I also use the “highlight” plugin for arbitrary colour based on regex for custom things like tags I include.

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

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Post by timwis »

Oh boy have I tried just about everything. I've settled on a pretty nice solution: markdown files in my Dropbox directory. To edit them I use iA Writer (paid but worth it) for a very nice markdown exciting experience without any special serialization format like all the others (just plain markdown files). I also use their Android app but for both platforms I could switch to any other app that edits markdown files. Total portability. Syncing is Dropbox's job.
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