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Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

#21
plain text files and your favorite editor, whatever that is.

things that should be encrypted are either gpg encrytped or put in my password manager.

Bonus if you format your plain text with markdown or asciidoc or whatever your fav. plain text markup language is.

Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be.

Put it in a VCS for super double bonus points :)

me personally: Vim, asciidoc and in a fossil repo.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

#22
Termux on Android with emacs/org mode and a ton of custom capture templates is awesome. Capturing eg. workouts and expenses to org tables and then processing them with python to get summaries.. quick restaurant or sento reviews in my journal .. whatever you want to capture quickly, you can tailor it to serve you. And, at the end of the day, it's all plain text synced by git.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

#23
I’ve (mostly) settled on using Google Docs for text-heavy notes, and just regular old paper for notes that will contain a lot of symbols and math. I also rely on paper for super short-lived notes and brainstorming.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

#28
You can get around the 2 device limit by getting a subscription to evernote.

I like DevonThink because it has good fuzzy searching. Good for finding articles that kept that kinda sorta has to do with the article you are currently writing.

https://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/overvi...

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