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Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by nicbou »

ralphc wrote: post #178
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…

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...?

When I was in university a few years ago, laptops were very common, but most still used paper.

Yeah, it was distracting. I spent more time writing my own note-taking tool than I did listening in class. It went poorly.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by miku86 »

jasonv wrote: post #127
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 spent time this week with Joplin. Why I won't be using it: * If I live in Markdown, I want to edit it WYSIWYG. Maybe that's wrong, but I don't want to live in .md code mode (for this reason, I miss Evernote). I author in Typora, but I don't want to keep notes in MD. * It's sync-ing options don't map to the most used syncing tech on desktops these days. I'd have to pay for Dropbox (given my current ecosystem) just t…

- Joplin has a rich editor

- If you talk about google drive, you can use the file system sync and sync from there

- you can create notebooks and sub-notebooks

If you are still on the search, there is a great list: https://old.reddit.com/r/Evernote/comments/j87fb9/please_hel...

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by grtehy »

drieddust wrote: post #87
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…

> * Rich media is possible and easy to do in org-mode. Attach a snapshot, embed a video file How you insert a video in org file? This is one of the reason I have to move away from org only setup.

Might be misleading for me to say "embed" a video. Emacs definitely cannot play video (there are some round-about ways but org-mode is strictly text only)

I meant it's possible to embed a link/thumbnail that will open the file in the player of choice

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by grtehy »

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…

Yeah, you're right. It's not for the casual user. Emacs itself has "unwieldy keybindings" as many say. I switch between vim and emacs all the time but it's not for everybody

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Post by edwinyzh »

bravura wrote: post #11

Yet-another-note-taking-system that doesn't solve my core problem: I want to browse my notes in chronological order AND in thematic order. i.e. I want to do semantic search and automatic topic grouping. [edit: The use-case I have in mind is you are learning about a topic, and your chronological "research notebook" is also an automatic zettlekasten.]

Do you mean browsing the notes in chronological order AND in thematic order (something like an outline?) in the SAME TIME? I'm currently doing a re-designing of my DocxManager (outliner based on Word) and you did inspire me!

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by npteljes »

nickthemagicman wrote: post #172
npteljes wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Absolutely they do. And now I'm realizing that they build a Trello-like functionality too, Nextcloud Deck.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/it.niedermann.nextcloud.deck

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Post by aGHz »

herodoturtle wrote: post #48
jdshaffer wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Quick tip, you could replace the ifs with

mkdir -p Dropbox/diary/$y/$ym

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by octoberfranklin »

blackbear_ wrote: post #31
octoberfranklin wrote: post #24

vim with folding Still the best tree editor I've found. I left emacs for it!

Emacs has folding too, so that cannot be the only reason..?

Yeah emacs has like eleventeen different folding modes. That's the problem.

Vim has folding as a basic feature of the editor binary, not some aftermarket script. So editing operations on folded regions always do what you expect.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by herodoturtle »

aGHz wrote: post #187
herodoturtle wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Quick tip, you could replace the ifs with mkdir -p Dropbox/diary/$y/$ym

Neat, thanks!

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by coffeeling »

pps wrote: post #56
ito wrote: post #44

For years, I experimented with paper, org-mode, text notes (Sublime Text, TextEdit) to manage my thoughts and life. What I ended up with was folder after folder of disorganized notes, files like daily.txt, todo.txt, log.rtf that ended up disgusting me. I would so strongly recommended everyone reading this to check out Roam Research ( https://roamresearch.com/ ). At it's core, it's a collection of text notes in the cl…

After exactly year of using it, I moved back to Notion, even though I have Roam for free. Thanks to Roam's hype they have backlinks now (+ it's possible now to create new page in another page/db with "[[", that will leave only link/mention to that new page), which means both structured and flat zettelkasten-style notes (done in some master notes DB) are possible, plus regular DBs and all of the other cool stuff. This…

Wouldn't a Zettelkasten in Notion be most natural as a page with a template button to create a new note, and the new page had a template button to create children, etc...

That way it'd end up as a branching tree the way an actual zettelkasten would and would probably be more searchable.

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