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Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by agustif »

sitkack wrote: post #85
tomduncalf wrote: post #81

Personally I find Apple Notes the most convenient for quick jotting down of ideas etc. It’s not the most advanced in terms of features but it loads instantly, is quick to use and is available on all of my devices. Have tried numerous alternatives but they’ve never stuck e.g. they’re slow to start up or are fussy to use or don’t work well on one platform. For deeper sketching out of ideas, diagrams etc I really like C…

How do you backup Apple Notes? The PDF export loses fidelity. I really like AN for the integrated camera, esp the document scanner. Is there another application that allows for writing as well as annotating media, video, photos and sound?

I remember I used some notes-cli tool to export notes from Notes.app into txt or markdown files

Maybe it was this https://github.com/xwmx/notes-app-cli

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by yalogin »

The main feature for note taking should be it’s simplicity. I am just writing down a list. All I need is a place to keep referring to and may be search them. The problem comes when they try to cram too much functionality in it. If I wanted more functionality there are other apps like pages and numbers already available. I would just start there. It’s understandable though, Every company wants to hoard all the enterprise functionality

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by Maha-pudma »

jcelerier wrote: post #113
Maha-pudma wrote: post #98

I used both. If I'm learning I will write notes with a pencil and paper (pencil over pen every time). This means I have to think more about what I'm writing and for me is more flexible. I use an A4 squared pad with an index at the front, each page is split similar to the Cornell note taking system which is good for summarising and adding tags for quickly finding information. My notes are scribbled and messy. I will t…

vouching for zim too

The way Zim organises the notes really makes sense to me. I know you could do what Zim does manually and use built in Linux tools to accomplish most if not all its features but it's nice to have it all in one package.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by kostarelo »

dvtrn wrote: post #118

the global note-taking management software market is estimated to reach $1.35 billion by 2026 That’s an interesting indicator. Would anyone happen to know what report the author is sourcing or have a link? I’m curious to read more of these numbers in full.

I would like more info on that too.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by kevindong »

sitkack wrote: post #119
aj7 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s on iCloud.

Is iCloud a backup or a coordination mechanism? If someone steals an iDevice and starts nuking notes or deleting videos, are they not gone?

It's a tradeoff of convenience vs. security. If someone steals my iPhone they would first have to get into it. Assuming they can do that, I'd have much bigger problems than my notes being tampered with.

Additionally, iOS devices can be locked remotely.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by jurmous »

sitkack wrote: post #119
aj7 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s on iCloud.

Is iCloud a backup or a coordination mechanism? If someone steals an iDevice and starts nuking notes or deleting videos, are they not gone?

All deleted notes go to a "recently deleted" folder in which they will stay for 30 days. Although they could be permanently deleted from there and then it is really gone...

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by dmje »

Funnily enough, I don’t think there is a really good one. There’s lots that almost do it but not quite. - Evernote: no note linking - Bear: lovely but no web or android version - OneNote: appalling in the way only MS can be - SimpleNotes: too simple - Zoho: too ...urgh - Keep: too Googley - Apple notes: too Appley - Standard Notes: too buggy

I’m clearly a fussy sod. But really, just a nice, oss, local files, ability to encrypt, x-platform apps: surely not too much to ask....?

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by timwis »

I've tried a lot of note taking apps over the last 8 years. Over the past few months I've become less fussed about the tools and more focused on the process: I now have a file for each week (I call it a journal or weekly notes), with a heading for each day of the week, and a sub-heading for each meeting/conversation/thing I'm thinking about. At the each week, as part of my weekly review (GTD), I review the weekly notes file. I scan my notes for each meeting/etc. and consider whether I need to do anything with them: I often have to create a task; sometimes I want to hang on to something so I move it into an evergreen note [1] on the topic (at the moment, I have one for work, and one for personal, but I expect I'll split these out as they accumulate). But for most things in my weekly notes, no action is necessary and I'll probably never look at them again (unless I need to refer back to something someone said later, which is easy to find if I wrote it).

So far it's working pretty well for me. I think the key is the regular review/processing.

I think I could implement this in just about any tool, so long as there's an easy way to quickly add an entry with a timestamp to the current weekly note file. I happen to use org-mode in emacs for this with org-journal (using doom emacs, only switched a couple months ago) but other tools would work just as well I bet.

[1]: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4SDCZQeRo4xFEQ8H4qrSqd68ucp...

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by [deleted] »

orthecreedence wrote: post #103
kirubakaran wrote: post #88

"Note Taking" is the wrong approach, imho. You are responsible for putting things in and keeping it up to date, and of course this is prone to fatigue. An automatic knowledge base that is created from the signals you already generate anyway would serve you the best, I think. This is what I'm building with https://histre.com/

Does it have e2e encryption? This is more or less a requirement nowadays for me.

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