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Ask HN: What would you choose today as your note taking device and app

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Re: Ask HN: What would you choose today as your note taking device and app

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Post by cfjgvjh »

This is purely a want and not anything realistic, but

I'd love a device with a reflective LCD screen since I find that my eyes hurt after staring at bright screens for so long. Ideally it would be color, giving it a distinct advantage over eink. TCL NXTpaper looks very interesting for this reason.

As for apps, I'd be happy if it ran Obsidian, Sublime, Scrivener, and Office (or really anything powerful enough to let me write my papers with proper Japanese support and do code snippet highlighting).

Having a pen input might be nice for diagrams and mindmapping.

I guess I really just want a reflective iPad.

Re: Ask HN: What would you choose today as your note taking device and app

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Post by meowster »

I use a small moleskin pocket ("cashiers"?) journal and Zebra F-402 pen.

It's not obnoxious to pull out and jot something down as it would be to take out a digital device would be. I have a record that's easy to look through. I line-out items that I don't need anymore. If it's a large block of text or picture that I've transfered to somewhere else, I 'X' through the whole thing. It looks neat and clean.

Re: Ask HN: What would you choose today as your note taking device and app

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Post by pketh »

I don't mean to self-promote, but I built my own perfect note taking app by mistake.

No slow modes, or toolbars – just click anywhere and start typing, then drag to move or connect thoughts/cards together

(It's called kinopio and you can use it with signing up, https://kinopio.club)

Re: Ask HN: What would you choose today as your note taking device and app

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Post by fattybob »

pketh wrote: post #5

I don't mean to self-promote, but I built my own perfect note taking app by mistake. No slow modes, or toolbars – just click anywhere and start typing, then drag to move or connect thoughts/cards together (It's called kinopio and you can use it with signing up, https://kinopio.club )

At a glance, this looks very nice, any chance it could run and store locally?? Some of us still have a need for working without any available online connection.

Re: Ask HN: What would you choose today as your note taking device and app

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Post by truth_ »

I use a combination of pen and paper, and sticky notes on a wall mounted detective board for things to do immediately.

I also use Simplenote. Free with markdown support, sync, and publishable links.

I use Samsung Notes for trivial stuff, like chores or shopping list.

If I want to easily sketch inside a note app, OneNote is the best. But it is weird in a sense that there are two OneNotes- one that comes with Office, and anotherthatcomes with Win 10. But OneNote is buggy and slow. You can barely use it in mobiles. I don't use windows that much.

Which brings me towards Obsidian. Best data policy, custom plugins, and what not!?

I am using it everyday. I am using another sync service to sync between devices.

My vote would to to-

Obsidian + Simplenote.

Re: Ask HN: What would you choose today as your note taking device and app

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Post by karmakaze »

Rumudiez wrote: post #3

Pen and paper. It’s the only thing that can keep up with me! No changing modes, never have to select or delete anything, plus I can draw arrows and diagrams that are often way more helpful than the words I’d use to describe them.

I completely agree. I haven't found anything effective for remote collaboration. I sometimes use the Whiteboard app on a Surface Go but that's not an online app. I have to copy the image over, or show the physical screen to my main computer's webcam.
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