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Note Taking in 2021

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Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by oezi »

I have recently developed my own terminal-based UI for day journalling and todo/task tracking [1] in markdown files because I was sick of rearranging todos in other tools and just needed something which provides a standard template for each day (journal, high priority, todos of the day).

The main advantage is that you can "migrate" all unfinished todos to a new page/day and thus get a clean start each day. This idea comes from bullet journalling.

To get it done I had to dig a bit into ncurses, which turned out more interesting than I thought. For instance, Windows Terminal just gained support for bracketed paste a couple of months ago and my tool supports it.

Long term I would like to add generated views (for instance: last year this time one of your highlights was...) and support recurring tasks to be inserted into the daily log.

[1] https://github.com/coezbek/rodo

Stack: Ruby, Curses, Markdown

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by liprais »

I grew up learning using pen and paper,I will stick to that.

Younger digital native generation wants to go all digital? totally ok with me.just we have to learn to agree to disagree.

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by mr-karan »

nichos wrote: post #30
tptacek wrote: post #6

This 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…

Joplin is one I highly recommend: https://joplinapp.org/ Cross platform, open source, and offers encryption.

+1 for Joplin. My workflow using it, if anyone's interested: https://mrkaran.dev/posts/how-i-take-notes/

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by gofreddygo »

Sophistifunk wrote: post #22

I just want something that's not an Electron app, not plain text, and not bloody markdown. I hate markdown, and I hate that it's taken over everything.

When not near a keyboard, use paper. When near one, use plain text.

For your sanity, keep metadata embedded in each file. I keep k:v pairs. One per line. e.g "topic: D3", "subject: scales", "context: Side Project"

Use grep, awk (whatever). Slice, group, dice, join, merge, backup as and how you want. A bash-like shell is the only dependency. Check into git regularly.

Some scripts I use

  ## group by topic. search for lines that start with "topic". print topic and the file name
  grep -i "^topic" *.txt | awk -F ":" '{printf "%-25s%s\n",$3,$1}' | sort

  ## find all files containing the "topic" tag 
  grep -i "^topic" *.txt | awk -F ":" '{printf "%-25s%s\n",$3,$1}' | sort 

  ## find all files NOT containing "topic". useful for cleaning up 
  grep -iL "^topic" *.txt

  ## find first 10 files not containing "topic" and open each in vi sequentially
  for f in $(grep -ilL "^topic" *.txt | head); do vi $f; done

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by darekkay »

petersellers wrote: post #41

Whenever one of these threads pops up I'm always surprised at the lack of responses for OneNote. For me it's pretty much perfect - it syncs with all my devices, supports the iPad pencil, supports OCR and text searching in images, has native apps, and it's free.

+1 for OneNote. I need a notes tool that works on desktop and mobile, where I can easily view and edit notes (text and images) even when being offline. Most tools unfortunately don't pass this basic criteria.

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by romwell »

japanuspus wrote: post #46
jrm4 wrote: post #18

Gotta get in the greatest (IMHO of course.) https://zim-wiki.org I'm continually baffled at how the rest of the world hasn't discovered this, but it could be because I sort of live at the margins of "ultra geek" and "normie." Local, self-hosted "wiki-like" tool. You write notes, it saves them, supports links and todos and calendars etc. Tons of plugins for math, git, etc etc. The killer aspect, I think, though. Any h…

Have you tried TiddlyWiki [0] which is running the brainfck.org Zettelkasten mentioned in the article. Seems like a very similar concept. I am intrigued by the concept and thinking about trying it out, so any input on picking one or the other would be great. [0]: https://tiddlywiki.com/

I've been using Tiddly Wiki for years, and can very much recommend it.

To start, all you need is a template HTML file. No installation, no nothing - it's self-hosted within the HTML! You save changes by clicking the "Save" button, which generates an HTML with changes.

If you really want, you can install a Node.js version which saves changes automatically. But you don't need it to start.

I mostly use Tiddly Wiki to keep notes at work, but I also built this with it: http://romankogan.net/adhd/

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by romwell »

waiseristy wrote: post #31
jrm4 wrote: post #18

Gotta get in the greatest (IMHO of course.) https://zim-wiki.org I'm continually baffled at how the rest of the world hasn't discovered this, but it could be because I sort of live at the margins of "ultra geek" and "normie." Local, self-hosted "wiki-like" tool. You write notes, it saves them, supports links and todos and calendars etc. Tons of plugins for math, git, etc etc. The killer aspect, I think, though. Any h…

ZimWiki was my favorite until I had mysterious performance issues on macos, so now I'm back to looking at browser-based solutions, ugh.

Try TiddlyWiki! It's what the author of the article uses and recommends in the article :)

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by hyperluz »

happyweasel wrote: post #40
jrm4 wrote: post #18

Gotta get in the greatest (IMHO of course.) https://zim-wiki.org I'm continually baffled at how the rest of the world hasn't discovered this, but it could be because I sort of live at the margins of "ultra geek" and "normie." Local, self-hosted "wiki-like" tool. You write notes, it saves them, supports links and todos and calendars etc. Tons of plugins for math, git, etc etc. The killer aspect, I think, though. Any h…

I migrated to ZIM from OneNote desktop. OneNote Desktop was everything I needed. Did not migrate to the OneNote cloud thing. Nowadays it's ZIM wiki using SVN as a backend. Not missing out on anything in particular. Ok, the table plugin for ZIM is still lacking IMHO.

OneNote allows hand written notes, that I use every time. Does ZIM or another note taking app for Linux allow hand notes?

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by FractalHQ »

rsyring wrote: post #33

I want rich text editing and easy sharing with individuals or groups, like Dropbox paper, but local, fast, and encrypted sync. Not found everything in a single app yet, please enlighten me if possible to something that fits that I've missed.

Same, but with back links and categories based on tags.

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by clydethefrog »

liprais wrote: post #52

I grew up learning using pen and paper,I will stick to that. Younger digital native generation wants to go all digital? totally ok with me.just we have to learn to agree to disagree.

Would be interested to see methods how to do that better. I am more of a mechanic pencil and paper user. Sometimes use markers when feeling fancy. Has there any new developments since the "bullet journal"?
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