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Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
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Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
#52Things for Mac & iOS - https://culturedcode.com/things/
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#53I've given up on using any sort of branded app for notetaking. At best it's open source and the maintainers will lose interest in a few years.
When you write things down, you're investing in your future. It's silly to use software that isn't making that same investment.
After trying Evernote, Workflowy, Notion, wikis, org-mode, and essentially everything else I could find, I gave up and tried building my own system for notes. Plain timestamped markdown files linked together. Edited with vim and a few bash scripts, rendered with a custom deployment of Gollum. All in a git repo.
It's... wonderful. Surprisingly easy. Fast. If there's a feature I wish it had, I can write a quick bash script to implement it. If Gollum stops being maintained, I can use whatever the next best markdown renderer is. Markdown isn't going away anytime soon.
It's liberating to be in control. I find myself more eager to write things down. I'm surprised more people don't do the same.
Edit: here's what my system looks like https://imgur.com/a/nGplj
X-post from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15057002 10 months ago. Still using & loving it.
Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
#54plain 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.
Same here. Vim, Markdown, and GitHub. I can easily sync between my laptop, work computer, and desktop via git.
Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
#55Standard 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.)
Thank you, have searched for things like Standard Notes before but without success. That is why I participate in HN, many times it works better than a search engine, you just need to wait for the right topic to appear in the first page.
Indeed, one of the most important points is the Q&A in the FAQ: "Has Standard Notes completed a third-party security audit?" (Spoiler: yes, it did).
Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
#56I've given up on using any sort of branded app for notetaking. At best it's open source and the maintainers will lose interest in a few years. When you write things down, you're investing in your future. It's silly to use software that isn't making that same investment. After trying Evernote, Workflowy, Notion, wikis, org-mode, and essentially everything else I could find, I gave up and tried building my own system f…
I too am thinking of going this route so as to reduce dependencies on custom software for something as important as note taking. However, how do you handle images in such a system? For instance, I sometimes take pictures of a whiteboard discussion and paste them as is in One Note - how do I do the same with plaintext files?
Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
#57Typora for writing markdown files which are saved in google drive.
Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
#58Write on spiral notebook paper, then scan it.
Is there a good app that scans a camera image and appends good metadata, plus has good handwriting recognition, and saves in interchangeable formats?
Have you heard of Rocketbook? (https://getrocketbook.com/)
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#59Dropbox Paper has worked quite well for me.