Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?

Post by wiradikusuma » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 11:48 AM UTC

zachlatta wrote: post #53

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…

Post by perilunar » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 11:49 AM UTC

karmelapple wrote: post #52

Things for Mac & iOS - https://culturedcode.com/things/

Post by kungtotte » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 11:53 AM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #215

kungtotte wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except Markdown looks like text with some special characters to embellish it a little. It's perfectly readable and legible in any text editor. Navigation is the only thing lacking, but manipulation is as easy as manipulating text is in your editor of choice. Note: I don't know what raw orgmode files look like, maybe they're similar to Markdown.

They are. Org format is kind of a better and more powerful Markdown. As plaintext, it looks cleaner to me. The thing is, Org format is defined by the way Org-mode in Emacs handles it. Beyond Markdown-like features (which are rather easy to parse out; the format is similar), you get things in the data format that to date are handled only by Emacs. Think of Emacs + org mode as a better Jupyter notebooks than just edito…

Post by meiraleal » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 12:07 PM UTC

kissgyorgy wrote: post #171

b3n wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/ .

Yes, I have been fooled by the "oh it's just plain text" notion also and have regretted it. Did you try to actually open an org-mode file with anything else than Emacs? Did you try get any meaningful information out of it on a mobile phone or with an another editor? I did...

Post by asdojasdosadsa » Sun, Jul 15, 2018, 12:17 PM UTC

    #! /bin/bash
    fpath=$HOME/notes.md

    if [ "$1" == "cat" ]; then
        cat "$fpath"
        exit 0
    elif [ "$1" == "rg" ]; then
        rg "$2" "$fpath"
    elif [ "$1" == "nano" ]; then
        nano "$fpath"
    elif [ "$1" == "--help" ]; then
        printf 'Commands: \n-----------------------------------------------\n
        $ notes \n
        $ notes --help\t\t--\tdisplay this help\n
        $ notes date\t\t--\tadd date row to notes\n
        $ notes \t\t--\tadd new entry \n
        $ notes cat\t\t--\tprint notes using cat\n
        $ notes rg \t--\tripgrep notes\n
        Remember to use #tags (for easier grepping)!\n\n'
    elif [ "$1" == "date" ]; then
        {
        echo ''
        echo '# '"$(date +"%m-%d-%Y-%T")"
        echo '-'
        } >> "$fpath"
    elif [ "$1" == "" ]; then
        less +G "$fpath"
    else
        {
            echo ''
            echo "$@"
            echo ''
        } >>"$fpath"
    fi