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Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by jaotl » Tue, Jun 22, 2021, 3:20 PM UTC

noisy_boy wrote: post #94

Tried Tiddlywiki based on recommendations on this page. Started nice and saved few pages, could update the settings etc. Then updated the setting to widen the wiki column size and suddenly all the links (like Home/Settings etc) stopped working with exception of Theme/Appearance and Save. Thankfully didn't put a lot of content in it. I guess I'll have to continue with dokuwiki + my plaintext markdown note setup.

I know, it shouldn't be possible to mess it up that way. .. _But_ the links didn't stop working. You probably made the "wiki column size" (aka story-river) wider and didn't move the sidebar out of the way. So the story-river did "catch" the clicks... There are some changes on the way, that should make it harder, to create confusion like this.

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by crazyjustin » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 12:03 AM UTC

something98 wrote: post #45

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.

Having been making a go at several of the suggested applications, which all use MD, I’m also starting to like it less and less. I find the side-by-side panes of some just a hilariously stupid waste of space. And the editors that at least do live “previews” feel so janky when editing; watching pound signs appear and disappear as you move off a line, or having text shift around as bold and italics markers come and go.…

I think Markdown exists mostly to make the editing experience predictable for both the user and developer. I don't think I've ever seen a rich text editor that doesn't require babysitting.

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by metta2uall » Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 2:12 PM UTC

blackbear_ wrote: post #163

metta2uall wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd also want to integrate notes & TODO - but also time-tracking, i.e. the ability to "click" on any note/TODO and log time against it. Perhaps a TODO can be a note with a tag like "#todo"/"#todo-important"/etc, and time-logs can be child notes..

You can do this with Org-mode in emacs! It will look something like this: * project ** DONE investigation ... ** TODO implementation [2/3] DEADLINE: :LOGBOOK: CLOCK: [2021-06-17 Thu 13:30]--[2021-06-17 Thu 16:03] => 2:33 CLOCK: [2021-06-17 Thu 10:30]--[2021-06-17 Thu 13:04] => 2:34 :END: do X and Y, be careful about Z - [X] part 1 - [X] part 2 - [ ] part 3 And you can quickly show the time spent on each entry: #+BEGI…

Thanks! I've read before that org-mode is really featureful but what's holding me back is the time required to get proficient and smartphone support..