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Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by wodenokoto »

Dolores12 wrote: post #121
kissgyorgy wrote: post #117

Typora! I just found it recently, but maan, I was searching for something like this for a long time! It is basically a Markdown editor but with an unique touch and extra features like outline, sidebar browser, built-in image viewer and stuff. It's very beautiful. https://typora.io/

windows installation is 42mb. i better stick to notepad.exe(245kb)

They are not comparable. Typora can handle images, render graphs, render markdown and show outlines and is cross platform. It also let's you edit markdown in a WYSIWYG-format.

Notepad can't do any of that.

Do you also complain about the size of blue-ray movies, when .txt documents are so much smaller?

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by greyman »

confounded wrote: post #143
greyman wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> plain text files and your favorite editor I tried this solution as well, but I missed one core feature of Evernote, that you can search by tags or keywords, and it instantly list all related notes.

... grep?

That is possible, but more impractical. In Evernote, I just click Win-Shift-F within any application, and then directly type the search keyword, and then get the list of notes, which I can preview in another window. It's just not the same experience.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by wodenokoto »

kissgyorgy wrote: post #117

Typora! I just found it recently, but maan, I was searching for something like this for a long time! It is basically a Markdown editor but with an unique touch and extra features like outline, sidebar browser, built-in image viewer and stuff. It's very beautiful. https://typora.io/

Typora also handles copy-pasting of images really well. It essentially copies the files to an assets folder next to your md document. If you paste image data from the clipboard it will create the file too.

This is extremely handy!

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by b3n »

kissgyorgy wrote: post #128
Dolores12 wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is wrong with org-mode? It is plain text file. I see no major differences compared to markdown.

There is a huge difference. It's proprietary , what I mean by that is you can't really edit it with anything else than Emacs. I used it with Spacemacs, and when an upgrade broke it, I left with no notes... Very frustrating experience, I immedieately abandoned it when it happened. Never used org-mode since then.

It's not proprietary, it's still just plain text, and can be edited with anything. Emacs adds a lot of nice features on top of it to manipulate that text, but it's still just text.

See http://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by jnurmine »

codeCatalyst wrote: post #72

zimwiki pros: * open source * stored as a bunch of linked text files * can version control with git * wysiwyg markdown(media-wiki syntax) editor http://zim-wiki.org/

Zim is great. It has grown to be a part of my working process.

My TODO lists with tickboxes are in Zim. (use [] to make a box). This way I can check what tasks are left and which are done. When the list of "done"-tasks grows, I move those to an own page to declutter and have a searchable history.

When I read an interesting paper or book, I add summaries to be reviewed later. When I develop, I build "case files" of things I am doing (e.g. set of commands, replies from a device, mini-HOWTOs, observations). Often these can be communicated to other people after a little polish.

One problem is that some notes tend to become spread out and somewhat chaotic, especially when having to multitask under time pressure. Many notes taken have little if any value after some weeks or months so I don't pay much attention to strict discipline there. Zim is essentially a somewhat messy lab journal intended for myself.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

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Post by evilc0 »

chris_st wrote: post #19
nso95 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I like Quiver too, but hate the fact that‘s only on Mac. If your open sourcing your project, i would love to help. Just let us know.
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