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How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Trello has been the best Notes and todo app I could find.

^same! I absolutely love Trello for short notes and now I have over 1000. I still need to figure out a proper export / back up mechanism

I haven't even tried to back it up But I'm assuming they have an export function?

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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, star…

This looks great. With to-dos and notes I'm like 80% mobile.

Does next loud have mobile apps?

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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 w…

That's very nice! TiddlyWiki was the first thing I looked at, but couldn't find a good way to publish it on the web. Thanks for the Drift link!

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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…

I keep two TiddlyWiki [0] files, one public, one private. If I feel that a certain note can become its own piece of knowledge in a Zettlekasten fashion and can have any value for someone else, I put it in my public file and I run a script that will copy it to my hosting provider. My public site is a single file! [1]. [0] https://tiddlywiki.com/ [1] https://ramirosalas.com/

Me too, I find Tiddlywiki perfect for this kind of use! You may have seen it, but it is recently made a php script that let you save directly to your server and create a public version where private tiddlers are removed or censored [0]. That way you only need to manage a single file. But it sounds as you have found a good way of doing it already:)

[0] https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/GRkskZRzj_o

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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…

You may want to take a look at logseq [0], which is open-source but seems to support org-roam files!

[0] https://logseq.com/

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I'm terrible at scripting, but I'm curious how you handled that. Do you mind sharing the script you created?

Sure thing. It's a script called "d" (for diary) that I keep in my home folder. I try minimise mouse usage, so I've got a keyboard shortcut for opening a terminal, and then in the terminal I run ./d === start of script === #!/bin/bash y=`date +%Y`; ym=`date +%Y-%m`; ymd=`date +%Y-%m-%d`; if [ ! -d "Dropbox/diary/$y" ]; then mkdir Dropbox/diary/$y fi if [ ! -d "Dropbox/diary/$y/$ym" ]; then mkdir Dropbox/diary/$y/$ym…

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! (And sorry for the way delayed response... I went to bed shortly after posting.)

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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I use markdown + git as the core note components (organization methodologies layered on top, dealer's choice), wanted to share this Android neat app for those who do the same: https://github.com/GitJournal/GitJournal

Thanks for GitJournal. Will try it out. I have been thinking of converting from OneNote to markdown. One thing that has been keeping me from making the switch is search, especially from mobile. Any one knows of any solution that is capable of searching through all the markdown notes similar to how OneNote does from mobile? I am thinking of hosting the notes in a RPi with Gitea or Nextcloud and access it using VPN (us…

Hi.

GitJournal author over here. If you can provide me with a video of what you mean, and what you would like that would really make implementing this much easier.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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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…

I graduated college in 1984, so my note taking was entirely pen & paper. What's the norm in college nowadays? Is everyone banging away on laptops? That seems like it would be distracting to me. If it is laptops, what software do people use? Simple text editor, Word...?

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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post #143

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're accessible via IMAP. For me, at least, that makes them quite easy to export or $whatever with.
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