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Incremental note-taking
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#42>The tragedy of Apple Notes is that it’s an idea black hole. I don't quite understand what's the problem here. You capture ideas digitally, and later, you can revisit them just the same as you revisit paper notebooks.
Joking aside about black holes, notes being created in plain markup languages and being confusing. There has to be something mentioned about microsoft notepad and their directions. You save files and you hope the desktop isnt filled up (talking the 800x600 days). I mean they also have other notes but really Apple Notes as you say is on level with other notes at the end of the day.
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#43Anyone here using Joplin for note taking? I hate using proprietary apps/services for essential thins, and that's so far the best self-hosted and open source note application I found.
There are a few very simple features missing (which could totally be implemented via plugins)
1. A daily note page. When opening Joplin I would like to start typing, and not create a new page first
2. A button for adding Notes on top of the stack, or below/above the current note.
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#44This is a good research topic but my opinion differs - The article claims that the forgetting of 90% is an underrated problem. I think it’s generally a feature that enables us to converse, read stories, and live. It’s a garbage collector. More specifically, however, it gets in the way when we learn new things. You read something important, have an aha moment, but then forget it a minute later when your short-term mem…
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#45> This means our tool has to be fast, and can’t burden you with questions like “In what folder should I put this?” that aren’t relevant in the moment. This is so important. I feel most note taking apps approach note taking the wrong way: organization first, ideas later. Most of our notes are random and the only real organization they can fit into is time. I have recently launched a note taking app [0] that keeps this…
That is why the Samsung Note series was the only thing that I see as a possible alternative to paper. (Paper is still king in my everyday life.)
Steps you need to take to write down a note with a Samsung Note:
0. Have it and screen off is fine.
1. Pull out the pen.
2. Don't press any buttons, just start writing on the display, the UI will awake when you go near the display with the pen tip.
3. Put the pen away. Note will be saved and screen will shut off.
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#46> This means our tool has to be fast, and can’t burden you with questions like “In what folder should I put this?” that aren’t relevant in the moment. This is so important. I feel most note taking apps approach note taking the wrong way: organization first, ideas later. Most of our notes are random and the only real organization they can fit into is time. I have recently launched a note taking app [0] that keeps this…
That is why the Samsung Note series was the only thing that I see as a possible alternative to paper. (Paper is still king in my everyday life.) Steps you need to take to write down a note with a Samsung Note: 0. Have it and screen off is fine. 1. Pull out the pen. 2. Don't press any buttons, just start writing on the display, the UI will awake when you go near the display with the pen tip. 3. Put the pen away. Note…
Sounds convenient but not everyone has a Samsung Note device.
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#47Interesting text. But by the end of the day I think it is quite subjective how people optimally capture their thoughts and ideas. I spent many years doing research to find an optimal tool. Netmanage Ecco worked very well for me, but had some limitations - interestingly some which also the referenced article considers important. Other people were fan of completely different tools which I couldn't get much out of (and…
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#48I think I'll stick with Obsidian for now :D
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#49Something in my notes I wrote about note-taking and its apps months ago:
"Google Keep is the best note-taking mobile app I've ever used. Interesting thing is, I didn't realize how good it was until I tried to switch to a better app due to Keep's lack of an obvious export feature. (You can export your Keep notes via Google Takeout.)
What makes Google Keep so special?
— Write icon opens to the body content, not the title. Several other apps open to the title and expect you fill that first. Horrible UX.
— content body begins several pixels from the top. Beginning writing right at the top makes the content feel too far. Cc: Writer Plus, which has a 4.6 rating from 46k reviews.
— focus when scrolling through app includes content body, not titles only. The boxes show parts of the content when you look through the app. Again Cc: Writer Plus and its ilk.
— 'search' searches all of content body + title + links.
— instant cloud sync.
— lightweightness.
— tagging > notebooks/folders. Easier and faster tagging a note than moving it around.
— urls are active links.
— view box is relative to content size.
What It Lacks — Markdown, or something similar
— Import/export
— revision control
— hierarchical structuring
— sharing notes with non-keep users
— linking to other notes within the app
A single feature could solve all last three features it lacks: links. You could copy the link to a note and share with non-Keep users or post it in some other note to refer to that note. (Keep already shows titles and images associated with linked web URLs)."Re: Incremental note-taking
#50This is very much why I keep things simple with an automated shell script[0] that creates and appends to a YYYY-MM.txt file for notes that's optimized for easy entry from the command line. I've been doing this style of note taking since 2001.
There's never any reason to think about where to save it, how to save it, what tags I should use, what it's linked to, formatting and other distracting tasks. You just run `notes` and it opens this month's file in your default $EDITOR, `notes this is my 1 liner to append to the file` or `echo "something to pipe in" | notes` depending on what you want to add.
It's just 1 continuous thought process of notes that's broken up by date and having it broken up by month is nice because if you're working on something that spans a few days you have everything together most of the time to recall it when you want it most.
Then for recalling specific older entries it's really easy to use grep and other command line tools or just open the whole directory in your editor and casually browse your notes if you want to go down memory lane.