I just use whatever comes with the phone, never understood the "market" of note taking apps.
Does Android ship with a note taking app?
Tired of note-taking apps
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#162Funnily 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…
This is why I’ve come full circle and just use a small notepad now. I still don’t type writing by hand, though.
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You must have some very interesting notes. I think for most of us, the US government wouldn't be particularly interested in our musings, but what do you suggest?
It's amazing that people can witness POTUS 44→45 and still make "well I have nothing to hide" arguments :/
Regardless of any political situation, it's a rather stark lack of imagination when one can not realize that there are people who are doing things entirely legal and reasonable that absolutely require privacy from the state for their own safety and success, such as labor leaders, political organizers, civil rights leaders, reporters researching state corruption, war crimes, or human rights abuses by the state itself, et c.
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#164Personally 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…
Does it integrate with Siri?
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Are you saying that the connection to Apple servers that hold the backups are not encrypted? That can't be... I'm almost certain they use TLS.
No, I'm saying that the notes are not encrypted from endpoint to endpoint. They are encrypted with TLS keys known to Apple in transit, and they are encrypted with storage keys known to Apple at rest in your iCloud account. This means that Apple has the ability to decrypt them at all times without your knowledge or involvement, and can and does so via the PRISM program for US military intelligence to access the plaint…
Okay, that makes more sense.
When I'm backing up to an Apple server, I think of the two ends in the end-to-end encryption scheme as my computer and Apple's computer.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, I'm saying that the notes are not encrypted from endpoint to endpoint. They are encrypted with TLS keys known to Apple in transit, and they are encrypted with storage keys known to Apple at rest in your iCloud account. This means that Apple has the ability to decrypt them at all times without your knowledge or involvement, and can and does so via the PRISM program for US military intelligence to access the plaint…
Okay, that makes more sense. When I'm backing up to an Apple server, I think of the two ends in the end-to-end encryption scheme as my computer and Apple's computer.
No, the ends are the device from which the backup is being taken, and the device to which the backup is restored: the start and the endpoints of the entire journey of the data.
When done properly, the places the data sits/transits in-between have no ability to read or decrypt the information; it's indistinguishable from random data to those intermediate storage/relay services or nodes, because they never have access to the keys to decrypt it.
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#167I was a long-time nvAlt (macOS + SimpleNotes on iOS) user and then used Drafts for the last 6 months which is a nice replacement (I use about 1% of the features). I'm trying to get into Notion for a few types of notes I take but it's too heavy for quick notes so I feel like I'll probably settle into using Drafts for quick notes/scratch-pad and then use Notion for structured notes/knowledge base type stuff.
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#168It’s fashionable to say that the best note taking system is pen&paper, but I think it ends up being a disservice to the idea of registering knowledge. I think written and digital have completely different pros and cons.
I love to physically write things down on a moleskine, but I decided to not storage knowledge there, I just dump things from my short term memory to act upon them in the short term. I tried storing knowledge there but when I needed later I didn’t have the notepad with me, or it was in an old one etc.
Digital note taking has several disadvantages, but at least it’s always with me.
Like they say about cameras, the best one is the one that’s with you.
Having created several note taking apps (the latest being Mindown), I’m deeply interested in the note taking problem, but it seems to be impossible to create the ideal one. Sometimes we want “simple”, other times we want advanced features. This is the first layer of challenge I see in the note taking world, but I can peel this onion in almost endless layers...
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#169I save my notes as text files (markdown format). It is universal so its not dependent to any app. It is searchable and future-proof. I save them in Apple iCloud so it auto-syncs to my iPhone and use iA Writer app to read/write to it. I used to use GitHub and git app (Working Copy app) on my phone to sync between devices.
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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 loved apple notes, and have used it for years. I left (for joplin) because there was no easy way to do an export/backup without scripts or workarounds. I don't use the document scanner tho :(
You can save your notes as emails when you connect your gmail account.