Tired of note-taking apps
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Tired of note-taking apps
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Re: Tired of note-taking apps
#2I also prefer writing things down. However, the ability to quickly search and link years worth of notes is the reason I’m putting effort into org-roam ... dozens of notebooks on a shelf will never be able to do that.
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#3I've used Keep extensively, but have been slowly migrating over to Notion as I need more structure than what tags in Keep can afford me.
The problem is probably me, I save a lot of stuff. But, Keep has become sluggish as a result. I'm not great at utilising tags, so oftentimes I'll just scroll through "everything" (sometimes narrowed by say searching for "images") and I have pretty decent visual memory so I'll readily find the thing I'm looking for just because things have the right shape (even text).
Notion is sluggish with embeds. It doesn't deal with the visual information I store very well either. This might be a Firefox thing.
Have used Evernote too, in the past. The problem with that is that it doesn't at all mirror my mental model of how things relate to one another. Granted, neither does Notion nor Keep.
For me, things start out flat (Keep) and then they nest (Notion) but I also have interrelationships, and need pointers between things. Sometimes, I just want to explore the "web" of how things connect but I've never encountered a system that affords me different "cameras" to explore my curated content.
I do not have the energy to build it though.
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#4I agree with the sentiment, but it's a crowded market that if there was an easy, elegant solution that met everyone's needs we'd already have some leaders out there. Maybe we already do. My person preference is Notion at the moment.
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#5The amount of notion spam on the internet is pretty remarkable.
Every year...there's a new FOTM note taking app, but this post hit the nail on the head....they are all absolutely awful and cater to serial movers.
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#6Markdown and similar markup languages is the perfect note taking solution.
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#7Nothing beats plaintext.
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#8It’s easy to be overwhelmed by choice, but consider all of the different ways that people have recorded paper notes, and you can figure that there will be at least as much diversity in electronic notes. What we’re seeing today is just the tip of the iceberg, we’ll probably keep inventing new note taking software for as long as we have interesting computers to do so with.
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#9I've tried many different systems, and the one I settled on is a single simple doc. It's the only method I've used for over a year.
You can do google doc or office doc, but the key for me was having one doc that I just keep prepending to.
Each day i'll add the date yyyy-mm-dd (dow) in bold and then list my work for the day... I use hyperlinks to dedicated docs or online guides for more involved projects (quick ctrl-k), and add a little check mark when it's done.
By adding days in the future, I am able to schedule work or set reminders, and with ctrl-f I can search the doc for anything I've done previously as it also acts as a journal.
I often used to get lost in the minutia of catagorization, and having list sorting help me determine priority, but I've come to realize that I already know what needs to be done, and roughly in which order. ... my bottleneck was always focus. Excessive task structure can be a procrastination in itself.
Going back to paper as op suggests seems like a step back.
It's not perfect, but it works. I do still wish I could add some sort of hierarchy to line items and also be able to zoom out to see the bigger picture, but for now that just sits in another dedicated doc that I schedule myself to look at now and again.
Hitting 18 months now on this system. Have never felt so organized.
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#10I was trying and using one single app for this purpose: Simplenote.
Installed a few years ago to all my devices. Simple and works. Why should anyone waste time trying all alternatives, after a first good enough app have been found which fulfills most needs?