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Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by laurex »

kemiller2002 wrote: post #82
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…

It's just my opinion, but nothing beats paper. I have tried keeping note files on my computer, and I've tried using tablets to jot things down (I have spent so much money trying to get this option to work). Paper just works better. I found that I like to scribble and underline, and draw. I'm just not an organized thinker. Forcing things to be in a list don't work for my thoughts and even drawing on an iPad etc. seems…

This seems to be supported by data https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761452458...

I have been transitioning to Remarkable 2 to see if there's some benefit to uniting the concepts. So far, though, I seem to be taking fewer notes.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by colinhb »

varrock wrote: post #138

Does anybody have a counter argument for just using macOS notes if you exclusively use Apple products? They sync nicely with my devices and make note taking pretty simple for me.

I think similarly, but after giving the notes app a shot for a few days, I went back to a text doc on iCloud Drive.

I never really made notes on my phone, and I like being able to stay in my text editor (acme) on macOS.

For me, the presentation and structure around this workflow is what's too complicated. To adopt do something similar on macOS, I'd just:

> % echo 'notes () { acme-open ~/iCloud\ Drive/notes/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md }' >> ~/.zshrc

This would give me a function to create a new, dated notes doc and open with my editor anywhere from the terminal. And then I'd just use standard tools for searching, instead of using a script.

(FYI: acme-open is my wrapper to acme, and I keep a link to the actual iCloud Drive directory in my home folder.)

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by nottorp »

stronglikedan wrote: post #105
nottorp wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> How 'bout a pencil and paper?

I hereby salute your nitpicking :)

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by Natales »

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 do something similar with Drift [0], a customized distribution of TiddlyWiki [1]. I capture as many thoughts and ideas as I can using the Zettlekasten methodology [2]. If it can be distilled to a single piece of knowledge, I assess, should this be private for me? or it can be useful to anyone else? if b, then I publish add it as a Tiddler on my public TiddlyWiki file, and I run an update that will upload it to my web site [3]. If private, I keep it in my private file.

TiddlyWiki has been around for a very long time, and it keeps evolving. My personal file has over 3,000 Tiddlers and it keeps growing. It's unbelievable all you can do in a single file with just HTML and JavaScript. As long as those standards exist in 20-30 years, I can be sure my files, all tags and all relationships are still available and highly usable.

[0] https://akhater.github.io/drift/

[1] https://tiddlywiki.com/

[2] https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/

[3] https://ramirosalas.com

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by Natales »

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…

I like the idea of daily notes even better when you combine them with your todo lists at the same time. That concept is called interstitial notes [0], and it's used in several software tools like Roam Research [1]. I use Drift [2] which has a interstitial notes plugin which has proven to work very well for me.

[0] https://nesslabs.com/interstitial-journaling

[1] https://roamresearch.com/

[2] https://akhater.github.io/drift/

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by aidos »

yodsanklai wrote: post #67

I like to use the tools available on my system, so I simply use Apple Notes. It's simple, good for synchronization, backing and searching, good for regular text with minimal formatting, but not good for code snippets unfortunately. I'm open to alternatives (but don't want to bother with versioning). Overall, taking notes isn't a solved issue for me. I mostly like pen and paper as a thinking tool, but I'm not able to…

I can recommend the Remarkable. The nice thing about it is that I don’t even see it as a screen. It just exists as a more organised and versatile version of the paper notes I normally keep. But it’s a lot closer to paper than to a digital device (good for me, maybe limiting for some).

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by coffeeling »

laurex wrote: post #151
kemiller2002 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just my opinion, but nothing beats paper. I have tried keeping note files on my computer, and I've tried using tablets to jot things down (I have spent so much money trying to get this option to work). Paper just works better. I found that I like to scribble and underline, and draw. I'm just not an organized thinker. Forcing things to be in a list don't work for my thoughts and even drawing on an iPad etc. seems…

This seems to be supported by data https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761452458... I have been transitioning to Remarkable 2 to see if there's some benefit to uniting the concepts. So far, though, I seem to be taking fewer notes.

That effect is heavily driven by writing things down in your own words - writing by hand essentially forces you to do it, keyboard lets you get away with transcription, which doesn't help.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by chuckSu »

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…

That just seems like a lot of work to me.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by lostlogin »

jxy wrote: post #143
varrock wrote: post #138

Does anybody have a counter argument for just using macOS notes if you exclusively use Apple products? They sync nicely with my devices and make note taking pretty simple for me.

Proprietary format. Difficult to link (or backlink) to other notes. Difficult to export, index, or analyze with other tools.

They are difficult to export. I had great success with Exporter.app, it converts to markdown and even handles the images. It then imports nicely into Bear.app.

https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/exporter/id1099120373?mt=12

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