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Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by als0 »

m3kw9 wrote: post #273
_abox wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Big minus: Only works on Apple platforms :( I use macOS and iOS all the time but I also use Windows, Android and Linux. So sadly most of Apple's services don't work for me. Even though I know they're really good. I really wish they'd expand their horizons a bit. Microsoft stuff works on pretty much everything so why not theirs? I had no idea it was that good though, because of the above reason I never really used it.

You could still access it from web. The interface isnt bad, but it’s web, so no native UI.

Sounds like it's a stone throw away from being packaged by someone as an Electron app :)

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by GekkePrutser »

kaliszad wrote: post #90
j0hnml wrote: post #78

The biggest issue I have with note taking is not the medium or app, it’s the fact that I would often write something and never look at the note again. This essentially made the act of note writing, at least for me, futile since I rarely remember my notes as I’m writing them. The best solution for this, I’ve found, is to still take notes on the bigger picture but then to add the smaller details, definitions, concepts…

For me, if I have some more long-running projects or ideas I might return to and e.g. give a presentation about them at some point, I find using https://orgpad.com an alternative. It tries to be a general tool that helps you connect the dots in a graph and that helps structuring information more like your brain does instead of forcing the linear approach of lists or longer texts. It doesn't force a scheme or anything…

Orgpad looks really good.

I always find this kind of mindmap stuff to go beyond my screen size too quickly though.. I'd love to have something like this in VR so I can walk around and write stuff everywhere, move things etc, just like I have my walls covered in stuff like those stalkers in horror movies :D

VR would be great for this I think. I might even make an app like that.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by jliu70 »

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?

There's an app called "Exporter". http://falcon.star-lord.me/exporter/.

I've used it and it works. Software developer also makes Another note taking app Falcon http://falcon.star-lord.me/#features

NOTE: Exporter works well, but it does NOT decrypt locked notes, nor does it handle anything outside of text (e.g, tables or images).

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by Lammy »

reaperducer wrote: post #266
Lammy wrote: post #158

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It's amazing that people can witness POTUS 44→45 and still make "well I have nothing to hide" arguments :/

It's amazing that people can witness POTUS 44→45 and still make "well I have nothing to hide" arguments :/ Unless you have a really short memory, I think you mean POTUS 39→45. And while by a lot of measures POTUS 45 has been a disaster, POTUS 44 did far more damage to privacy than 45 has (yet).

I'm not talking about any specifics of either administration, only about having them back-to-back with polar-opposite reactions from most people. I hope that would make anyone on any side think twice before handing "their guy" some fun new weapon, but I probably hope for too much.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by oblib »

Haven't we all made a note app by now?

I spent over a month at "TodoMVC.com" playing with frameworks. After all that I couldn't decide which one I should use and ended up deciding not to use any of them and then made my own.

And I don't use it much either :D

I do look at new ones still though. Some of them have so many features that just the notion of spending the time learning how to use them puts me off.

As I write this I'm looking at 4-5 sheets of paper scattered on my desk with notes scribbled all over them.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by bronco21016 »

m3kw9 wrote: post #273
_abox wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Big minus: Only works on Apple platforms :( I use macOS and iOS all the time but I also use Windows, Android and Linux. So sadly most of Apple's services don't work for me. Even though I know they're really good. I really wish they'd expand their horizons a bit. Microsoft stuff works on pretty much everything so why not theirs? I had no idea it was that good though, because of the above reason I never really used it.

You could still access it from web. The interface isnt bad, but it’s web, so no native UI.

The web version has an incredibly obnoxious bug when it comes to using Enter.

On Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04 hitting Enter once will not go to the next line. Hit Enter again and it will go down two lines.

Works fine in Chromium but there's no reason I shouldn't be able to use Firefox, especially when Apple pretends to champion privacy...

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by dghughes »

I find Google Keep convenient it's simple and quick.

Colour coding of notes, pinning notes, add a url to a note all basic stuff I find useful.

The only missing feature is categories but I can do that manually. I add a header like "Tip" for notes I may need for work. Other categories I make up may be "Groceries " or what context the not related to.

I prefer fast and simple over anything needlessly complex I mean it's quick notes not a thesis.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by submeta »

justsomeuser wrote: post #283
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…

I like Apple Notes and would use it if it did not have the following limitations: - You cannot link between notes like a wiki (like Evernotes evernote://$note-guid) - You cannot export all your notes in a standardised format. - You cannot store notebooks in specific offline only encrypted disk images for privacy. - Cannot change background (must use paper emulation)

> You cannot export all your notes in a standardised format.

This!

When I tried to export my notes I realized how hard to impossible it was to get them out. An absolute no-go for me. So I gave up on accumulating notes in this otherwise beautiful and practical app.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by dutch3000 »

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…

i like using siri to add to apple notes, while ideas come to me or something during walks etc. works well with airpods pro.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Post by dageshi »

msamwald wrote: post #256
dageshi wrote: post #33

Roam Research was the one I settled on. It melds exactly with how my mind works. I think it's probably doubled my productivity.

I got very motivated to use Roam, but then settled for Dynalist. It's more polished, cheaper, and they recently added backlinks as well.

Opposite way around for me interestingly, I used dynalist (and paid for it) last year before moving to roam. The thing I really like about roam other than the graph is the auto generated daily todo pages, so you've always got somewhere to immediately start writing. And the TODO overview page, which lets you see all the todos you added across all notes. The two are really powerful, you can organically write out whatever is in your head, leaving todo's as breadcrumbs to regain context later.
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