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Honestly it’s pretty good. I am much more productive than on paper.
On laptop or desktop I stick with vim and copy to Word if required. I use Inkscape for diagrams.
However, most of the time I just use paper. I generally use 200-ish page hardbound books with a narrow rule, and go through around 2 a year with work; entries are dated, volumes are dated when filled and filed away. I don't treat them with the full rigor that you would a real "lab notebook", but it's the same general idea.
For hobby use, I use similar books, but usually blank or graph lined.
For day-to-day reminders and such, I'm almost always carrying a little 50-cent spiral-bound notebook. When used up, remove the spring, toss the pages and cover into the recycle bin.
My use of software for note taking at this point is pretty much confined to initial research where I'm more interested in saving images and URLs than any actual details that might end up on paper later.
Over my last two terms I've invested in using markdown with Pandoc to write any notes in class. I needed a way to be able to take math notes, and be simple to use. After migrating to Linux, OneNote was no longer an option. It's simple to use, as it uses markdown syntax for anything text based, and LaTeX syntax for inlined math formulas. I as of recently also found out that VimWiki exists. I've started to use it becau…
No matter what I tried, a mind map app felt extremely natural. I just dump random bits of stuff into the map and it works.
If I’m not in my pc, always paper
Then bigger notes in devonthink because of its superb search and classification
I'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…
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.
- Markdown rendering can be done with pandoc
- Structure and search can be done with a solid file structure and grep
- Sync can be done with git or any other syncing solution out there.
- Encryption can be done with gpg (vim-gnupg)
Serious question: What feature is missing from this workflow (assuming the audience are developers)?
It's a mess. And I have a standard paper logbook, its primary purpose is to organize thoughts in reunions.