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Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by npsimons »

ekianjo wrote: post #22

I guess the author has never heard of vim-wiki? > The way it works is that every time I run the script, it opens the note for that day in my editor of choice vimwiki's diary function does that for you under the hood.

> I guess the author has never heard of vim-wiki?

The author, as well as most everyone in the comments here, have apparently never heard of org-mode. Yeah, I can understand that for some people emacs is a non-starter, but trust me, if you want to do it, I can just about guarantee it's possible in org-mode. It's just that flexible, and everyone's org-mode setup is different, customized to their needs.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by pdx_flyer »

I have been struggling to keep notes effectively. A lot of my notes "expire" a few days after taking them, but others I will need years later.

For most of my job I take physical notes. I don't love it but it's easy for me to grab a pen and paper just about anywhere I am. Where I struggle is doing something with those notes after the fact.

When I am at my computer, I usually just keep a plain text file going for the day and just save it for the date. I also have Teams recordings, screenshots, and other stuff that I have to just put in a folder. I don't have tagging or anything and keeping up this information just isn't working.

Any tips?

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by dv35z »

StavrosK wrote: post #41
jareware wrote: post #23

I feel like Joplin ( https://joplinapp.org/ ) should also get mentioned: storing notes in plain Markdown files, optionally synced via e.g. Dropbox. Bonus points for also having mobile apps that sync with the same backend.

I looked for many alternatives to taking notes and Joplin ended up being what I went with, it's fantastic. I wrote a small script to export my notes to a static website because I figured someone could use the knowledge, even if it's just a brain dump: https://notes.stavros.io/ 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 c…

I would love a network of people’s knowledge base / personal notes. I have several people’s kb-sites bookmarked, which I check in from time to time - I always learn a ton! I have been using Obsidian to take notes of everything I learn - my own KB - and have been thinking of how the share the notes out publicly, while still keeping the informal, private, low-friction note taking. For those who share their notes/kb publicly, whats your strategy?

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by kovek »

For me, I'm an avid browser, lurker, reader of HN, Reddit, and when I come through an interesting paragraph in an article, or a comment in a thread, I screenshot it.

Next step will be to automatically move the screenshot from iCloud onto a computer, run OCR on the screenshots, index them, and make it possible to search through their text with near-equal search terms (eg "cute dog" would match "cute puppy" as well)

Anyone has ideas on how to make that possible?

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by dageshi »

feteru wrote: post #107
dageshi wrote: post #78

My 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?

I really like Roam, it seems to be made by people who're thinking deeply about what a note taking system should be, I don't mind paying for that reason.

I think there are a bunch of alternatives out there, just googling roam research alternatives will throw them up, I just don't want to spend a lot of time searching and evaluating different systems when frankly roam is good enough for me.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by StavrosK »

dv35z wrote: post #134
StavrosK wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I looked for many alternatives to taking notes and Joplin ended up being what I went with, it's fantastic. I wrote a small script to export my notes to a static website because I figured someone could use the knowledge, even if it's just a brain dump: https://notes.stavros.io/ 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 c…

I would love a network of people’s knowledge base / personal notes. I have several people’s kb-sites bookmarked, which I check in from time to time - I always learn a ton! I have been using Obsidian to take notes of everything I learn - my own KB - and have been thinking of how the share the notes out publicly, while still keeping the informal, private, low-friction note taking. For those who share their notes/kb pub…

> and have been thinking of how the share the notes out publicly, while still keeping the informal, private, low-friction note taking.

That's exactly what I want to do too. Increasing the friction makes people less likely to share, so I want the community to feel very casual, so people aren't afraid to post even single-sentence brain dumps.

> For those who share their notes/kb publicly, whats your strategy?

You mean those who have already shared them? The advantage of a centralized site would be improved searchability, so you'd help more people.

Since I don't really aim to make money from this, it'd be open source, sort of like a Neocities vibe.

Would you like to email me at hi@stavros.io if you're interested (and whoever else reads this comment, please feel free). If I do end up making this I'll make it invite-only so I don't have to worry about spam (at least at first), and this would be a nice way to have a few early testers.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by vmarsy »

alexpetralia wrote: post #90

As 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…

Same system, except for step 1 I simply email me@onenote.com [1] from gmail and it goes in the "Quick Notes" section.

I like it especially when it's a single URL as OneNote automatically appends a snapshot/screenshot of the page in the note itself, so even if coming back to it much much later, less risk of the original webpage being 404 not found.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-email-to-send...

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