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Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple note taking tool

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I expect this kind of tool will be built into Google/Apple/Microsoft ecosystem within a year with at least GPT-4o level capabilities. So I'd say... procrastinate on building something like this?

Though I feel like it's not too hard to do something that searches a folder, uploads all the images to GPT-4o and returns the results. It won't just search text inside images, it can do things like identify which images have a product with sugar in them.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple note taking tool

#22
I’ve been using Workflowy for over a decade. It’s mostly just an infinitely nested bullet point list and has only basic features. Organization is up to you.

It’s cross platform and has a good search.

My only gripe is that pasting from a separate bullet point list doesn’t always work well.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple note taking tool

#24

I’ve been using Workflowy for over a decade. It’s mostly just an infinitely nested bullet point list and has only basic features. Organization is up to you. It’s cross platform and has a good search. My only gripe is that pasting from a separate bullet point list doesn’t always work well.

My two gripes: it‘s not E2E encrypted, so don‘t put very private information there, and some keyboard shortcuts don‘t work on Windows (and never will, unless they let us configure custom shortcuts someday).

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple note taking tool

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I migrated off from Evernote and OneNote completely to Obsidian. I would not advocate for Obsidian (or any specific application) here, but rather advocate for having your notes in plain text files - e.g. Markdown. This will ensure that whatever application you use on whatever operating system, you will have your notes easily accessible. It also gives you the flexibility to choose how you want to sync your files - OneDrive, iCloud, Dropbox, whatever you name it. This kind of gives a level of data sovereignty as well.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple note taking tool

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post #25

I migrated off from Evernote and OneNote completely to Obsidian. I would not advocate for Obsidian (or any specific application) here, but rather advocate for having your notes in plain text files - e.g. Markdown. This will ensure that whatever application you use on whatever operating system, you will have your notes easily accessible. It also gives you the flexibility to choose how you want to sync your files - One…

Agreed. I’m currently using Obsidian as well, but I’ve got many notes I was able to transfer seamlessly from another app precisely because they were Markdown.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for a simple note taking tool

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post #25

I migrated off from Evernote and OneNote completely to Obsidian. I would not advocate for Obsidian (or any specific application) here, but rather advocate for having your notes in plain text files - e.g. Markdown. This will ensure that whatever application you use on whatever operating system, you will have your notes easily accessible. It also gives you the flexibility to choose how you want to sync your files - One…

Relevant for OP's requirement of AI: https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj
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