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Tired of note-taking apps

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Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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post #273

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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...

This drives me crazy too.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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I'm also tired. Now it's only a folder of Markdown files and pictures, Google Drive and VScode. Nobody can take it away from me. I'm in control.

Btw. I think git is too cumbersome for notes. I don't care about history and git log and I don't want to push things manually for notes.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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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).

Can you elaborate on this please?

It's not that complex. Our personal privacies have deteriorated with either party in power for decades. Both Dems and GOP have voted to extend the Patriot Act and similar acts. Most of the NSA/PRISM drama happened under Obama (PRISM in 2007 with Bush, to be fair) and I'm not sure anything changed by 2016.

So singling out Trump isn't really relevant or even useful.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Because of many of your noted downfalls of popular note-taking apps, I spent a few years developing MinimaList Outline: a nested list mobile app for Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.toadlybrood...

I use it everyday as it easily helps me organize huge amounts of data in a clean hierarchical manner. Give it a try, let me know what you think!

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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post #32

I’ve tried many, many different apps, and approaches over the years. On of my peeves is doing things twice, so here are, to my mind, the important decision making factors: 1. cross-device/platform support. Once I was entirely Apple, I settled on Drafts (post processing when necessary), and Apple Notes. If you have multiple OS’s involved, the decision is harder (Evernote). The logic is that I wanted some contextually…

There is a non-zero chance you won't always be on the same platform. That doesn't mean you shouldn't use the best app for your platform, but it's worth to think about how you migrate data out when that day comes. I've spent roughly a decade or so on each platform I've been on, and then moved on, because either the platform lost its way, or I needed different things. I've learned the painful way that you want data lib…

Yes, this is one of the reasons that I decided to use Joplin: it's Open Source and cross-platform. I never want my notes to be locked to one or two platforms.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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post #239

I searched far and wide for a good note taking app a few years ago, only to find that the best solution for me was right in front of me the entire time. git init fall2020 Git lets me keep track of everything, and I have free hosting at multiple different websites, or my own server if I want to. It's simple and customizable, and depending on what type of notes, I have different scripts to automate new notes and search…

I use git as well to track my notes, I just haven't found a good editor yet which is equally as important. Sublime Text or any code editor works fine enough for Markdown, but I really miss the ability to have hyperlinks in my notes. Markdown links are just extremely ugly to look at and overly verbose.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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Another huge benefit of physical note taking is that if you are doing it in a meeting other people won't think you are on Slack or otherwise distracted and not listening. Instead people will feel more appreciated, since you are valuing what they are saying though to write it down.

The same can be accomplished with some iPad note taking apps.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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post #223

Quick rant triggered by this... We have our - Cloud document systems (Google docs, Dropbox paper, Notion).... - Project management systems (Trello, Asana, Monday) - Todo/task/notes management (Keep, Todoist, Evernote) - Customer Ticketing systems (Zendesk, helpscout, freshdesk) - Bug/issue tracking systems (Pivotal, Jira, Github) - Crms (Salesforce, Hubspot, Streak) - And then theres even specialized customer facing…

I think that part of the reason there's so many options is because there's no best approach and managing information is hard.

Re: Tired of note-taking apps

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post #131

Taking notes is a process. If you're tired of the apps, then you haven't put enough thought into the process. The available apps are fine. Picking a tool to solve a problem is the opposite approach to how you solve the problem. You instead need to define the problem and then find the tool which is the best fit. If you're frustrated with the tool, then you might need to put more thought into the problem.

I ran into a lot of issues with note apps over the years. Tried many, but none really stuck. Until I realized that software based note/planning tools just don't work for me. W

An app is hidden away on my phone, and I need to actively open it to use it. But my bullet journal is always in my bag. It serves as a physical reminder. And it oddly gives me way more flexibility in how I structure it.

Being a software developer myself, the irony isn't lost me.

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