Google Keep. Simple, does the job and is already in every device.
You forgot good search capabilities, the only problem is its limited scalability. It's great for random notes, but not so much for a lot of structured data.
How do you take efficient notes?
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Re: How do you take efficient notes?
#22After trying quite a few, I started using multiple tools without worrying about sticking to one tool. This automatically free's up my mind space and allows me to focus on what notes to take rather than how I should format or which tool to use. The core point is that tools will evolve continuously, and it's hard not to switch.
I've learnt a method called CODE (Capture, Organise, Distill, Express from a book - Build Your Second Brain. It changed how I organised my information and helped me be more productive.
You can have a look and see if that methodology works for you.
Re: How do you take efficient notes?
#23I just use vimwiki with neovim and hit ww if need a new note and its super easy to creates links and structures with vimwiki. I used to use Obsidian but once I learned vim I dont want to edit/write in anything that is not vim.
Re: How do you take efficient notes?
#24I dump stuff into an Obsidian page, then clean and reorganise it. It's simple, but requires a little bit of self-discipline.
During meetings I often use my iPad w. Concepts or Apple Notes.
I prefer doodling when I feel like I'm focusing too much on writing down notes verbatim and not paying enough attention to the conversation.
Re: How do you take efficient notes?
#25Look into Orgmode. The challenge you are describing is of the cost of context switching between multiple tools as all your information that you need to recall to do your work (say about a project or a topic of what have you) is living in different places. Your tasks may be in todoist but it’s not great for writing notes to preserve context. Trello etc all have similar problems. Notion is too powerful in the way you c…
organice is a user friendly, cloud backed up, lightweight front end to orgmode (or based on). https://organice.200ok.ch/
... but looks aesthetically unpleasant.