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Note Taking in 2021

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Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by smoldesu »

tptacek wrote: post #6

This is going to be one of those threads where everyone rattles off their own note-taking setup, which is great and all. So: There's a lot of things people tend to want from note-taking setups: easy entry, navigation and organization, wiki-like linkages, export to various formats, encryption. What I've found actually matters for my day-to-day and gets me to actually take lots of notes, though, is just (1) search and…

I use Nextcloud and markdown files to take notes, it lets me search and sync to my hearts desire. Nextcloud is chronically underrated.

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by ozzydave »

tptacek wrote: post #6

This is going to be one of those threads where everyone rattles off their own note-taking setup, which is great and all. So: There's a lot of things people tend to want from note-taking setups: easy entry, navigation and organization, wiki-like linkages, export to various formats, encryption. What I've found actually matters for my day-to-day and gets me to actually take lots of notes, though, is just (1) search and…

I really like Agenda app. Similar to Bear notes with two advantages- connecting notes to calendar entries is smart, it means you are organized with no effort, and create reminders in line in your notes.

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by ckcheng »

tptacek wrote: post #6

This is going to be one of those threads where everyone rattles off their own note-taking setup, which is great and all. So: There's a lot of things people tend to want from note-taking setups: easy entry, navigation and organization, wiki-like linkages, export to various formats, encryption. What I've found actually matters for my day-to-day and gets me to actually take lots of notes, though, is just (1) search and…

Exactly, I need to take lots of notes and beyond search and sync, I need it conveniently everywhere with me on all devices.

That's why I use Google Keep --- which is pretty terrible... except it's free, it's everywhere there's a browser, there's an app for it on every phone/tablet, and it works offline when I sometimes don't have internet connection.

Works ok since I write notes in plain text, with some markdown notation (but without actual Markdown support in Keep).

In the past, I've used Notational Velocity and other fancy things, but I find plain text is best. And now I need sync on all devices, so went with Keep.

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by Timothycquinn »

FWIW, I have used single panel outlines for years starting with Omni Outliner on my OSX 10.0.1 days. However, after switching off Mac, I've come to depended on Ecco Pro[1] which I presently use on Ubuntu/Gnome via Wine.

Ecco Pro only has one level of undo but it just does just what is needed and I've never had it loose any data on me. It was last compiled in 1997 but there are ways to tweak it out for modern OS's.

I have automated scripts to convert Ecco outlines into Markdown also have time invoicing outputs etc. As Ecco does not have any rich text or any intrinsic special formatting coding, its easy to use Ecco as your own personal note taking DSL. For Example: .: :. [.] - todo (open) [x] - todo (done) [~] - todo (in progress) etc...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_Pro

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by flankstaek »

mr_o47 wrote: post #20

Interesting article ! Note taking is very important as it helps you retain stuff and helps you learn better in general. I am huge on taking notes whenever I'm learning something new and the strategy that worked for me best was using markdown in vim to take notes and use git to save them. Last but not least if you are a huge note taker I would suggest using Mdbook(A project powered by Rust) as it allows you to write i…

Would you mind explaining what Mdbook does in this context?

It seems like it fulfills a completely different purpose than what's being talked about here.

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by 0xCMP »

tptacek wrote: post #6

This is going to be one of those threads where everyone rattles off their own note-taking setup, which is great and all. So: There's a lot of things people tend to want from note-taking setups: easy entry, navigation and organization, wiki-like linkages, export to various formats, encryption. What I've found actually matters for my day-to-day and gets me to actually take lots of notes, though, is just (1) search and…

+1 for Notes, but I use Notes as like my scratch/dumping area and then move things into Notion.

I make an Inbox note in both to just dump stuff and then move it around. In my Notion I have a "Knowledge Garden" page which is like this hyper linked super wiki page of all my knowledge and as you dig in to the links it gets deeper. (e.g. a toggle for "computers" with bunch of paragraphs talking about [Cloud] and [AWS (Cloud > AWS)] and etc. links)

I should probably just use Obsidian or Roam but things working well on Mobile is important to me and the Notes and Notion apps work exceptionally.

To be honest: if Notes would just let me make non-share links to use to navigate between notes (without all the hacks you can do) I wouldn't really need Notion.

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by nichos »

tptacek wrote: post #6

This is going to be one of those threads where everyone rattles off their own note-taking setup, which is great and all. So: There's a lot of things people tend to want from note-taking setups: easy entry, navigation and organization, wiki-like linkages, export to various formats, encryption. What I've found actually matters for my day-to-day and gets me to actually take lots of notes, though, is just (1) search and…

Joplin is one I highly recommend: https://joplinapp.org/ Cross platform, open source, and offers encryption.
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