Note Taking in 2021
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Note Taking in 2021
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#2Having a public repository online of notes is something that never crossed my mind - however, I am very intrigued.
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#3If anyone is interested my mobile note taking consists of:
Dynalist for organised notes that work well in list/tree structures
Standard Notes for unorganised, random brain dumps
And good old fashioned pen and paper everywhere else.
The miMind app from the article looks like it may be useful.
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#4Obsidian.MD works pretty well and meets all of the stated requirements. Everything is markdown on disk, but the tool is maintaining an index for linking things. The index powers search and graphing, but otherwise everything works just as well in VS Code. It works really well for me, with the one downside being it is an electron app. Because it is all markdown based, you could use a native tool of choice (I use Ulysses on iPad). They have a sync service, but I just use iCloud.
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#5If anyone is interested my mobile note taking consists of: Dynalist for organised notes that work well in list/tree structures Standard Notes for unorganised, random brain dumps And good old fashioned pen and paper everywhere else. The miMind app from the article looks like it may be useful.
If you think miMind is interesting, check out SimpleMind.
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#6This is going to be one of those threads where everyone rattles off their own note-taking setup, which is great and all. So:
There's a lot of things people tend to want from note-taking setups: easy entry, navigation and organization, wiki-like linkages, export to various formats, encryption. What I've found actually matters for my day-to-day and gets me to actually take lots of notes, though, is just (1) search and (2) sync --- I need my notes mirrored onto my phone.
For several years I just use Apple's Notes.app. It's honestly pretty great; it's frustratingly good, in fact, because it doesn't feel much better to use than does TextEdit. Both search and sync work fine. I don't have to think about what I'm writing or how it fits into the scheme of things because I'm guaranteed to be able to find things with search. I can drag screenshots of lecture videos in and write short sentences about them.
I had Bear.app for awhile and was initially skeptical of it, but it has now replaced Notes.app for me; it's a better writing environment, it has sticky notes (pinned to the top of the note list) which turn out to be really valuable, does native Markdown, and search and sync work reliably on my laptop and phone.
So, Notes and Bear.app are my two recommendations.
I'm interested to see if anybody comes up with something macOS-supported that outdoes Bear.
I'm an Emacs person, I've written a couple thousand lines of elisp, and I have never, ever been able to get into org mode.
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#7This is going to be one of those threads where everyone rattles off their own note-taking setup, which is great and all. So: There's a lot of things people tend to want from note-taking setups: easy entry, navigation and organization, wiki-like linkages, export to various formats, encryption. What I've found actually matters for my day-to-day and gets me to actually take lots of notes, though, is just (1) search and…
I'm considering getting an iPhone just for notes. I had an old iphone, the iOS version didn't allow the sharing of notes feature. I thought I could just log into the iCloud website and edit my notes, however you are unable to view or edit shared notes from the website. It's very confusing.
I'm currently using iA Writer on Android. Notes are automaticaly saved as markdown to a Dropbox folder which I can open on my other devices fairly easily.
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#8This is going to be one of those threads where everyone rattles off their own note-taking setup, which is great and all. So: There's a lot of things people tend to want from note-taking setups: easy entry, navigation and organization, wiki-like linkages, export to various formats, encryption. What I've found actually matters for my day-to-day and gets me to actually take lots of notes, though, is just (1) search and…
Best note taking I’ve done is just rubber-ducking to myself in a (public) slack channel solely for that purpose. Never worry about hierarchies, and easily link back to past messages. For a dedicated app and methodology, I find https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/ mimics that style.
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#9This is going to be one of those threads where everyone rattles off their own note-taking setup, which is great and all. So: There's a lot of things people tend to want from note-taking setups: easy entry, navigation and organization, wiki-like linkages, export to various formats, encryption. What I've found actually matters for my day-to-day and gets me to actually take lots of notes, though, is just (1) search and…
I followed the same trajectory as you from Notes to Bear, but have ended up on Craft. It might do too much for you, but I’ve honestly never used an app that is both so featureful and some beautiful.
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#10This is going to be one of those threads where everyone rattles off their own note-taking setup, which is great and all. So: There's a lot of things people tend to want from note-taking setups: easy entry, navigation and organization, wiki-like linkages, export to various formats, encryption. What I've found actually matters for my day-to-day and gets me to actually take lots of notes, though, is just (1) search and…
Time for me to shine!
I use 2 giant plain-text files.
One for notes. The other for to-dos.
I use git to sync to a private git repo using my own app https://github.com/tanin47/git-notes (work with Mac, windows, Linux)
My priority is that I want my notes to live forever. Using GitHub seems to achieve that purpose. (I used many notes app before which I threw away when moving to a new app)