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Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?

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Post by synthmeat »

ljsocal wrote: post #2

Notes app (native to iOS & OS X)

I went all in with Notes.app, sounded so appealing with much more potential features unlocked on iPad Pro with a pen, as well as iCloud web accessibility.

Then it failed syncing.

Then I noticed search doesn't work over note titles.

Then it prevented me from having more than 100 attached links (yes, links, not files) per note. Hard-coded.

Then it started crawling performance-wise. Slow startup, slow scroll.

Currently, I'm at file level when on desktop, and on paper when not. I'm not particulary happy with this either, but at least I'm aware of limitations at all times.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?

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Post by kristiandupont »

Physical notebooks started working for me when I started using them for daily planning, which I did by buying a silly $5 stamp of off AliExpress: [link redacted]

On NYE I went through my books of 2018 and it was a great experience -- both reiterating all the things I've actually accomplished and refreshing various thoughts and ideas that I had stored and sort of let go. https://www.instagram.com/p/BsDWesbnkDI/

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?

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Post by Vekz »

I email myself and capture in emacs org-mode.

I have an email address that is bound to AWS SES. SES listens for incoming emails and writes them to an S3 bucket. I then have a lambda hook which listens for writes to this bucket and processes the email content. This usually means writing an emacs org-mode record on dropbox. Which is then added to my emacs agenda.

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?

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Post by julienreszka »

Vekz wrote: post #14

I email myself and capture in emacs org-mode. I have an email address that is bound to AWS SES. SES listens for incoming emails and writes them to an S3 bucket. I then have a lambda hook which listens for writes to this bucket and processes the email content. This usually means writing an emacs org-mode record on dropbox. Which is then added to my emacs agenda.

I can't tell whether this is serious or you are joking. Either way that's unusual...

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?

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Post by polote »

I use Zim wiki: http://zim-wiki.org/

I organize everything in it, and I have also a daily journal in zim, it is synchronized with syncthing https://syncthing.net/ on all my computers and my phone.

When I have something quick to add and don't have access to my computer, I send to myself a message and slack, or on whatsapp and I add it later to my notes

Re: Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?

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Post by firefoxd »

Shower thoughts that may amount to something is first repeated out loud. Only when i vocalize them they can stay in memory long enough to be recorded by any means necessary.

I send myself emails, record audio, then in the end everything is converted to .txt file on structured dropbox folders.

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