Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by ams6110 » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 12:22 AM UTC

Emacs org-mode

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by egypturnash » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 12:26 AM UTC

Evernote + a subscription works for me.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by hwj6etsd90lb » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 12:26 AM UTC

Turtl: https://turtlapp.com/ Largely because it's open source and privacy oriented, encrypted client-side. It's not as convenient and feature-rich as OneNote, but entrusting Microsoft with all my notes seems crazy.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by bmarquez » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 12:40 AM UTC

Standard Notes: https://standardnotes.org/ for plain text, encrypted notes. Everything is easily importable or exportable in .txt format.

MS OneNote is great however they have stopped updating their desktop application (which allows offline notes) in favor of putting everything in the cloud (which will require a subscription to yet another cloud service if you exceed the OneDrive limits.)

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by tarek_computer » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 12:40 AM UTC

firefox notes for quick notes, dropbox paper is not bad, and zotero for more detailed research note taking. I frequently just open VIM with Pencil/mark down and take notes directly onto a Dropbox folder.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by rla3rd » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 12:43 AM UTC

I tried Evernote, One note and simple note, then settled on zim http://zim-wiki.org/ It even works on OSX but i had to build it via brew

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by peacetreefrog » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 12:44 AM UTC

vimwiki

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by plasma » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 12:45 AM UTC

Trello for some notes, often TODOs, since you can archive cards and tick off task lists.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by chris_st » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 12:45 AM UTC

nso95 wrote: post #9

lastofus wrote: post #4

I dropped a few bucks on Quiver for a more developer friendly Evernote, and I've been relatively happy with it.

How do you utilize Quiver? Just making notes of programming concepts with code snippets?

That's what I use it for. I've found the "One column of concepts, with one column of articles in each concept" to be a really useful formalism. I found, when using wikis (even just my own) that it wound up being an unorganized mess.

I wound up writing a Quiver-alike for the windows/linux world at work.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by apocalyptic0n3 » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 12:47 AM UTC

lastofus wrote: post #4

I dropped a few bucks on Quiver for a more developer friendly Evernote, and I've been relatively happy with it.

I second Quiver. Great little note app with fairly good markup support. Biggest problem is it is Mac only last I looked