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Evolving my note-taking processes

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Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by vavooom »

sureglymop wrote: post #6

What I want in a personal note taking system is something where I can link anything. Anything is just a generic object that can be linked to and worked with. Like a mix between Logseq and Nextcloud, where I can still use CalDav and CardDav but I can link to tasks and calendar events and contacts from my notes. And i can link to a certain pdf page right from my notes.. or even a certain page of a word document. Anythi…

Sounds like you are looking for a Zettelkasten [1], which is a way of organizing notes around a loose linked structure. I use Obsidian[2] for mine!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten#:~:text=A%20Zet....

[2] https://obsidian.md/

Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by albatrosstrophy »

sureglymop wrote: post #6

What I want in a personal note taking system is something where I can link anything. Anything is just a generic object that can be linked to and worked with. Like a mix between Logseq and Nextcloud, where I can still use CalDav and CardDav but I can link to tasks and calendar events and contacts from my notes. And i can link to a certain pdf page right from my notes.. or even a certain page of a word document. Anythi…

I came across this recently, not sure if it's something that might help.

https://www.scrintal.com/

Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by adamdusty »

reactspa wrote: post #10

Markdown question: I want to take create a chronological journal where I track tutorials I've done (and how well, etc), but I want to add some sort of a tag wherever I feel like so that with a click I can find all my entries related to (say) React, or R (statistics), and so on. If you're reading this, and have had luck with such a tagging mechanism, please share your solution. FOSS only, of course.

Sounds doable with logseq. Everything is pages rather than tags, but a similar concept. Any block/note can be a part of any number of pages/tags via hashtags or page links.

Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by eointierney »

sureglymop wrote: post #6

What I want in a personal note taking system is something where I can link anything. Anything is just a generic object that can be linked to and worked with. Like a mix between Logseq and Nextcloud, where I can still use CalDav and CardDav but I can link to tasks and calendar events and contacts from my notes. And i can link to a certain pdf page right from my notes.. or even a certain page of a word document. Anythi…

Emacs

:)

Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by alexalx666 »

Daedren wrote: post #8
alexalx666 wrote: post #3

Is there a clone of Standard Notes which includes basic plugins for free? I almost think it was a mistake to go with SN for self-hosted notes

You can also self-host the Standard Notes extensions though.

so their extensions are free if self-hosted?

Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by not_skynet »

reactspa wrote: post #10

Markdown question: I want to take create a chronological journal where I track tutorials I've done (and how well, etc), but I want to add some sort of a tag wherever I feel like so that with a click I can find all my entries related to (say) React, or R (statistics), and so on. If you're reading this, and have had luck with such a tagging mechanism, please share your solution. FOSS only, of course.

I use [Dendron](https://www.dendron.so) for this. You can add tags or links to any entry, and the targets of those links will have backlinks. There's a nice "daily note" mechanism as well.

[Foam](https://github.com/foambubble/foam) seems very similar but I haven't personally tried it.

Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by bachmeier »

samsquire wrote: post #2

I journal computer and software ideas as markdown files out in the open on GitHub. When I get to 100-300 entries I move onto a new repository. https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas2 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas3 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas4 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/startups I create a new markdown heading for each entry and write. It's searchable and the data is easy t…

I started by putting stuff on my professional website. Too much overhead and styling kept me from writing:

https://lancebachmeier.com/other.html

Then I moved to GH pages and a simple theme, so that I could type directly in the browser on any device:

https://bachmeil.github.io/online-writing/

There was still too much styling on that page for my taste. The full CSS for my new site is

body { max-width: 950px; margin: auto; padding: 8px;} pre { border: 1px solid gray; border-radius: 6px; padding: 8px; }

That feels more natural to me. Site here:

https://bachmeil.github.io/the-blog/

Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by gigel82 »

gnuj3 wrote: post #9
alexalx666 wrote: post #3

Is there a clone of Standard Notes which includes basic plugins for free? I almost think it was a mistake to go with SN for self-hosted notes

notesnook.com

Notesnook is not open source (you cannot self-host it, you must pay them). FWIW, Standard Notes is also very difficult to self host, though if you dig deep enough you can actually find the server and some outdated documentation.

FWIW, I settled on https://github.com/zadam/trilium which is very bare-bones but fully open source and self-hostable.

Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by apetresc »

samsquire wrote: post #2

I journal computer and software ideas as markdown files out in the open on GitHub. When I get to 100-300 entries I move onto a new repository. https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas2 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas3 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas4 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/startups I create a new markdown heading for each entry and write. It's searchable and the data is easy t…

What is the benefit of moving on to a new repository? It's not like Git would have a performance problem with thousands of small text files, and it's just as easy to organize (actually much easier) within a single root than within multiple roots.
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