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Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by marinhero »

After years of using tons of notebooks I decided to move to Notability on my iPad. The Apple Pencil + Paperlike experience really do it for me. Notability is nice and when I write feature designs I don’t have to transcribe my handwriting to the computer. I simply select the handwriting, convert it to text and move it over my computer. Another great thing about this is that I can run searches on my handwriting, I really enjoy that because looking for that one page in a notebook is never practical, specially when you have many notebooks.

I’m a fan of the simplicity of your system but I don’t know if it’ll work for me. I really like writing with a pencil, that’s when I feel like I’m learning or reflecting on information.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by StavrosK »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #106
StavrosK wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 N…

> I'm quite surprised that using that is easier than hitting Ctrl+D (in Firefox anyway), and doing the management there.

It's easier because I just hit a different shortcut and don't need to do any management at all afterwards, I can just search the content.

> I guess not many people would really want hosted WebDav when you can just hook up NextCloud/S3/OneDrive/etc.

Many people probably would, just not me :P

> A notebook as a blogging platform also seems interesting/incredibly low friction.

Yep, hence my idea of "notes as a site" in my first comment.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

k_sze wrote: post #74
k_sze wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t use pen and paper because I’m surrounded by nosy people who don’t know to respect my privacy. And if I put some kind of lock on a physical diary or something, they complain that I am hiding something.

Why am I getting downvoted? Am I not raising a valid point about physical privacy? It’s not like I’m calling anybody here nosy.

Downvotes are pretty random sometimes.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by hardwaresofton »

StavrosK wrote: post #112
hardwaresofton wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 N…

> I'm quite surprised that using that is easier than hitting Ctrl+D (in Firefox anyway), and doing the management there. It's easier because I just hit a different shortcut and don't need to do any management at all afterwards, I can just search the content. > I guess not many people would really want hosted WebDav when you can just hook up NextCloud/S3/OneDrive/etc. Many people probably would, just not me :P > A not…

> It's easier because I just hit a different shortcut and don't need to do any management at all afterwards, I can just search the content.

Reasonable, I clicked around their demo and I think I can see the value there.

> Yep, hence my idea of "notes as a site" in my first comment.

yeah this sounded like it'd fit great with the other hosted webdav thing, thanks for talking through it a bit!

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by StavrosK »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #115
StavrosK wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm quite surprised that using that is easier than hitting Ctrl+D (in Firefox anyway), and doing the management there. It's easier because I just hit a different shortcut and don't need to do any management at all afterwards, I can just search the content. > I guess not many people would really want hosted WebDav when you can just hook up NextCloud/S3/OneDrive/etc. Many people probably would, just not me :P > A not…

> It's easier because I just hit a different shortcut and don't need to do any management at all afterwards, I can just search the content. Reasonable, I clicked around their demo and I think I can see the value there. > Yep, hence my idea of "notes as a site" in my first comment. yeah this sounded like it'd fit great with the other hosted webdav thing, thanks for talking through it a bit!

Oh I made historious myself, so it's a pretty good fit for me :P

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by Scarbutt »

hiq wrote: post #63
grtehy wrote: post #47

Reposting my setup here. It's not the best setup but it's based on trying different things. Might be useful for those who are trying to figure out their own setup: ======= Just another opinion on the balanced note taking method: I think org-mode solves almost all offline note-taking requirements * org-roam makes it super-easy to link notes * emacs as an editor is as usable as any other editor * Rich media is possible…

One drawback you omitted is that you have to set it up and learn how to use it before you reach a point where it competes with other less sophisticated solutions. I try to keep some notes.org file and use it regularly, but I'm just faster with unix tools and vim, so it's hard to make the upfront investment in learning emacs and start somewhat from scratch. I think there's also some kind of discoverability issue with…

To know what features you need you first need to know what method you will use, that's the hard part and orgmode or any other note taking app will not help you with that.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by chadlavi »

nicbou wrote: post #16

I 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…

how do you find anything later? It's a simple capture method, but it doesn't work well for a use case like "oh I talked to that user one time, let me search for them in my notes"

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by JohnL4 »

psibi wrote: post #8

For the past couple of months I have been using org-roam [0] for this and I find it quite effective. Just found out that I have 87 different notes lying around: $ ls *org | wc -l 87 [0] https://www.orgroam.com/

I just use plain org-mode (orgzly on my phone), storing files on Dropbox (personal) or One Drive (work). AutoHotKey to emacs, then org-capture.

(Evernote if I find web content that's good.)

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by packetlost »

georgefrick wrote: post #109

I 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 everyt…

I personally use a combination of Notion for collaborative notes/tasks/whatever, bullet journal for daily notes/tasks, and a markdown based zettelkasten for knowledgebase-type stuff. There's a fair amount of duplicated information, but both Notion and the Zettelkasten or easily searchable, and it's trivial to copy-paste between them.

I really like the paper method for day-to-day stuff, but for research or work-related notes, I simply can't write fast enough to keep up (particularly if I'm trying to capture info from a meeting), and the lack of searchability means I can never fully rely on paper notes as a means of retaining information long-term.

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