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People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by eitland »

Multicomp wrote: post #341
eitland wrote: post #152

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I'm using Logseq for the same reasons. .txt was never going to cut it for me, I always include images like drawings, photos and screenshots etc. Logseq is open source, reasonable file format, stable, extensible, has a reasonable plan for funding itself without lock ins, and, for me, is among the smoothest I have used. Notably missing from old OneNote 2016: - shared notebooks w/indication of updates - smoother syncing…

> As for the modern version of OneNote, I have given it up. It almost isn't comparable. Agreed, that's why I'm happy they basically kicked "onenote for windows 10" to the curb and leaned back into the win32 style full desktop application on Windows, AKA onenote 2021. It even has full dark mode and dictation now!

> the win32 style full desktop application on Windows, AKA onenote 2021.

It exists?

Edit: I checked and it does exist! Thanks!

I installed it and verified tags are just as cute as before.

I don't have time to verify if the old brilliant sync via file share feature works longer, but the rest of it looks good. I probably should test OCR of pasted images too, now that I think of it, although the OCR in Windows Power Tools has replaced it for me.

I'll probably not use it much again now that I have Logseq and thankfully don't work at many "Microsoft only" shops but if sync via fileshare works it is back as my recommendation for smaller shops that insist on Microsoft centric setups.

I'd probably also personally prefer it to Confluence on small projects (and that thankfully means almost every project I touch).

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Post by barbariangrunge »

Jackevansevo wrote: post #30

The 23 minute video linked on the "ultimate notion setup for 2023" sounds like a great trap to fall into to not actually get anything done. I get the impression some people spend more time configuring these productivity tools instead of actually being productive. Although I admit I've been guilty the same thing, perfecting my .vimrc instead of actually working on projects. Messing around with static site blog generat…

Which is why I just ditched scrivener for a markdown editor with minimal features for my writing. Configurable tools can lead you to spend all your time configuring them instead of using them

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by barbariangrunge »

runjake wrote: post #68
dmd wrote: post #46

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Over the last 20 years or so I've tried: index cards, wunderlist, todo.txt, remember the milk, Asana, Any.do, Evernote, Google Notebook, Simplenote, Trello, Workflowy, Google Keep, Bear Notes, org-mode, and probably a dozen others. Three years ago I started using Apple Notes and told my wife "if you see me trying anything else at all, yell at me". I've been pretty happy with it and am much more productive just using…

Is there an easy way to link other notes in Apple Notes? I've used Obsidian for years now. Mainly because it's frictionless, I can easily link notes, and just Markdown files. I don't spend time looking for cool new plugins or new methodologies, so I don't have those temptations. I wish there were a better mobile app, though.

I installed obsidian today and spent the entire time configuring plugins etc. I uninstalled it for something simpler and less about configuration combos

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by barbariangrunge »

Swizec wrote: post #99
rvense wrote: post #59

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When I first got into Linux it seemed like a lot of people mostly used Linux to configure desktop environments and Conky to take screenshots of. There's a Buddhist parable about someone spending their whole life building a boat to cross a small river and dying before they made it across.

I used to be a total Linux nerd throughout highschool. To the point of being a Gentoo user! On a machine that took 3 days to build KDE. Around freshman year of college I switched to Mac. Realized I wanted my computer to be a tool, not a hobby. Some config is fine, but for the most part I stick to the defaults now and trust that people who spent years thinking about this stuff have it handled. If they don’t, it’s prob…

Ubuntu is pretty easy to use too

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by jdougan »

jitl wrote: post #349
jdougan wrote: post #327

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Ah, so it mirrors the NLS internals

We're inspired by the greats ( https://www.notion.so/about ). Our Github code review bot is named doug-engelbot

Did anyone actually go over the NLS internals docs over at bitsavers? I went through them, it is impressive how much mileage they got out of the '68 designs. Still parts missing that no one seems to want to add to their new outliners.

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Post by IceWreck »

prima-facie wrote: post #276
IceWreck wrote: post #233

I am quite obsessed with keeping a personal wiki, like some of these people described in the article. However, I simply cannot imagine doing that in an application that isn't controlled by me or doesn't work completely offline. I dont want my life to be organized around an application that charges a subscription and my workflow is at the whim of a corporation. I went from Zim to Dokuwiki to Bookstack (where I've been…

Can I ask what determined you to move away from Zim? I'm currently using it and finding it quite good.

Zim was cool but I wanted something that could work on multiple systems without waiting for files to sync and bookstack works over the web.

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Post by arthurofbabylon »

fudged71 wrote: post #161
arthurofbabylon wrote: post #69

I built minimal.app as the antithesis of over-planning, over-documenting, over-organizing, and over-thinking. The feature that keeps the mind open is the Note Lifetime, whereby notes die when you don’t engage with them [1]. This is in contrast to notion, evernote, et al where writers collect stuff and live in these information silos, trapped by the confines of their tools. Of course many (most?) thoughtful people can…

Rather than a note dying, I wonder if notes could decay into smaller and smaller summaries.

Genius

Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives

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Post by arthurofbabylon »

mywacaday wrote: post #197
arthurofbabylon wrote: post #69

I built minimal.app as the antithesis of over-planning, over-documenting, over-organizing, and over-thinking. The feature that keeps the mind open is the Note Lifetime, whereby notes die when you don’t engage with them [1]. This is in contrast to notion, evernote, et al where writers collect stuff and live in these information silos, trapped by the confines of their tools. Of course many (most?) thoughtful people can…

I presume you were scratching your own itch but maybe you can answer a question for me, why are the majority of productivity apps on here only available on IOS?

I think it comes down to business mechanics. I think it’s often the case that Apple-ecosystem customers are more willing to pay for a product, allowing the company to have a direct relationship with stakeholders. It’s quite nice to charge a customer money, respond to their questions and feedback, grow together, succeed together. Advertising and other non-paying solutions do not have such powerful interest alignment, particularly for smaller and more artisanal brands. So business are choosing customers that support this more harmonious alignment by going platform-specific.

(In my case, I simply don’t have enough resources to support Windows, Android, and web versions. For Minimal, Windows is the most requested second platform.)

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