Trello has been the best Notes and todo app I could find.
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How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
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#102Trello has been the best Notes and todo app I could find.
I love Trello but I don't want my data on the cloud. I wish I could have something as nice and easy as Trello but self hosted
As a self-hosted Trello alternative, I use OpenTasks[0], created some Lists to sort my different kind of notes, and sync this between my machines with DAVx5 and Nextcloud. Not as streamlined as a trello, but hey, FOSS and self-hosted. On desktop I can view my tasks and lists with Nextcloud's web app, or Thunderbird's Lightning addon. With OpenTasks, one task can have a title, a detailed description, a checklist, start and due dates, completeness status, even priority - I usually just use the title, and often the checklist, excellent for groceries and household chores.
You could also try Wekan[1], which is awesome on desktop, but I found the mobile interface unusable.
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#103nb seems like a souped-up version of this tool, and a few others mentioned in the thread.
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#104I go for a low-fi approach: it is a single text file.
$ notes
appends a new line, current date like Mon 05 Oct 2020 10:20:47 AM EDT another new line and a set of === as a separator and moves the editor cursor to the bottom. So I can immediately type.
If I type
$ notes So that was weird
then it will take whatever I typed at the command line and append that as well allowing me to continue to type in the editor.
Finally I use :tag to freetag notes so I can easily search through notes based on the topics.
I figure eventually I might figure out a better system but so far this one worked very well.
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#105I use paper. Digital notes are great if you need them to be available everywhere, or edit them time and time again, but paper is still significantly better for me. I keep my recipes in Keep and on my personal website, because I often amend them. However I discovered that printed recipes are much more pleasant to use. Likewise, I'd much rather have a dirty notebook to sketch and write on when I'm working in the garage…
Nothing beats the flexibility of pen and paper for unstructured information. Of course, for work we also use shared digital docs, but what goes in there has first been through my ugly scribbles on paper.
> Nothing beats the flexibility of pen and paper for unstructured information.
How 'bout a pencil and paper?
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is really awesome, this kind of functionality would be a really awesome plugin to Joplin itself somehow. > I also had an idea to make a site where you could take notes and have them be auto-published (like the above, but as a service), to create a community of random knowledge dumps. Think of a Wikipedia, but made of personal sites and not as rigorous, with a very "personal Web 1.0 website" feel, but talking to…
> this kind of functionality would be a really awesome plugin to Joplin itself somehow. Agreed, I looked for a plugin but unfortunately found none. > Alongside this idea, would you use a browser plugin that shares your bookmarks as a stream? I don't really use bookmarks, whenever I come across an interesting page I put it in https://historio.us , but they're too few to make a stream out of... > Also, somewhat unrelat…
> I don't really use bookmarks, whenever I come across an interesting page I put it in https://historio.us, but they're too few to make a stream out of...
Interesting! I'd never heard of historious, thanks for the link. I'm quite surprised that using that is easier than hitting Ctrl+D (in Firefox anyway), and doing the management there. I totally get it though.
> I don't think so, I prefer doing my own hosting and NextCloud/WebDAV works quite well, so I wouldn't want yet another account to manage.
Yep, I can see that, many who find their way to joplin are quite technologically independent and came to joplin precisely because of those reasons. I guess not many people would really want hosted WebDav when you can just hook up NextCloud/S3/OneDrive/etc.
> Yeah, I ran into this problem with my script as well, where I wanted some notes to be private. For those, I just created a notebook that has "private" in the name and put them all there, the script skips them. Tags might work as well.
Yeah -- tags would definitely be the way, but the problem is that I'd want someone to be able to publish an update from their phone (or at least from every platform possible), and be able to keep their encryption. Just spitballing, but imagine serving a sync/backup service that happens to also be able to spit out md-derived websites very very easily. Notion and it's ilk have features like that and people seem very excited about it. A notebook as a blogging platform also seems interesting/incredibly low friction. Could even be a podcasting platform if you attached audio to notes.
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#107My system as of right now... Todoist on my phone for tasks. I like todoist because it's got a nicely polished interface and an excellent API. I use an AWS Lambda to define and push repeating tasks into Todoist at set times, it also moves tasks from certain lists into my inbox at certain times of the day/week. Basically I don't want to fiddle with setting times or scheduling in todoist except for one off scheduled tas…
Do you think Roam is worth it, and are there any alternatives that are comparable to Roam?
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#108As I've mentioned elsewhere, I have a fairly straightforward "personal knowledge management" (PKM) methodology. 1. Capture: every interesting idea that I think up or read is immediately stored in Google Keep (on mobile or laptop). It can be very rough at this point, the goal is simply to not forget. 2. Transcribe & Organize: every weekend, I go through the notes I accumulated during the week. It tends to be between 1…
Google Keep has a limit with how large notes can be, and how many unarchived notes can dictate app performance.
It's neat you simply decided to use it to hold on to things for about a week, prefering instead to store them in OneNote (or anything you want), a more stable product. Thanks for this advice!
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#109I went from paper to a tablet for a year (as a challenge), ended up back on paper. My boss got me into using nicer notebooks, and I've been doing it for years (about 6).
I then switched to MD files, eventually ending up using Stackedit extensively for a while similar to the tablet effort.
Now, between work, hobbies, being a DM; I've given up and spent some time in One Note... and now that's where I've
migrated everything. I'm always interested in how others do this in case they've figured something out.
I still use a paper notebook as a personal journal, important notes, etc. I also still use a notepad for those daily notes / thinking on paper that you can throw away at the end of the day.
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#110Personally I used Python's tnote program, but, because of Python, it worked pretty slowly. So I rewrite on pure POSIX shell and it serves me for nearly ten years:
http://www.git.stargrave.org/?p=t.git;a=blob;f=t
Comparing to author's solution, it gives ability to briefly list notes, use multiple "namespaces", quickly add (without invoking the editor), delete or modify each specified note. Also there is no bashism and it works out of box on *BSD (that lacks bash) and GNU systems.