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Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by aidos »

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…

Sorry to be “that guy”, but I’ve switched to Remarkable recently and I love it. It’s for people like us who work best on paper.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by mimischi »

0x008 wrote: post #45
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…

Obligatory mention of foam for vs code here.

As well as org-roam for Emacs! https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by StavrosK »

srich36 wrote: post #26

For the past few months I’ve been taking markdown notes which are then transformed into HTML and pushed to an s3 bucket for public viewing. Probably not the best solution within this thread but it costs approximately nothing is a great way to get access to a web-based version of your notes anywhere. This allows you to throw extra features in the HTML like searching for files and randomly selecting a note for viewing…

I made a comment here with the same idea:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25300423

I love the idea that I have a place to publish random stuff that I don't have to spend lots of time writing, I can just drop a sentence and maybe someone else will find it useful.

The big problem is that Google will basically never give you that page in a result, no matter how relevant it may be to your query, because it prefers SEO-rich content farms like Wikihow. I was thinking that a service would at least be easier to search/remember to go to.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by lukaszkups »

aidos wrote: post #51
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…

Sorry to be “that guy”, but I’ve switched to Remarkable recently and I love it. It’s for people like us who work best on paper.

was about to say something similar, but using OneNote while working on Surface Book 2, taking handwritten notes with Surface Pen. Totally recommends it.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by pps »

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 is a complete solution for me, all of my notes are much better organised now. And yes, I know, Roam has much more features than backlinks, I was using all of them, queries and block references, and sidebar, and ..., but for real work I'm not missing anything else than a sidebar. Sidebar is the best part of Roam IMO, even Obsidian with their multipane can't compete with that. With Notion I can open new tab in browser or new window in desktop app and keep it side-by-side and it's ok too, not as good and fast experience as with Roam, but good enough.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by hardwaresofton »

StavrosK wrote: post #41
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 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…

That is really awesome, this kind of functionality would be a really awesome plugin to Joplin itself somehow.

> 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 community of random knowledge dumps. Think of a Wikipedia, but made of personal sites and not as rigorous, with a very "personal Web 1.0 website" feel, but talking to a few friends it didn't seem like they saw much point in it.

Alongside this idea, would you use a browser plugin that shares your bookmarks as a stream? Almost like a cross of the github "X starred Y" stream and Twitter (with none of the social-y features). I favorite a lot of things from day to day and would love to know what others are favoriting/finding as well.

Also, somewhat unrelated to that, would you pay for encrypted offsite joplin sync target/backups?

I'd love to make it possible to also share-from-joplin for single notes but that feature isn't there yet. The only way to make it happen otherwise would be synchronizing somewhere unencrypted (!) and then asking that somewhere to "publish" your notes. Unfortunately, since joplin doesn't have multiple "profiles" or any way to separate encryption keys or which notes are and aren't encrypted... it's hard to do that as well..

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by hardwaresofton »

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.

Very happy Joplin user -- switched earlier this year and am extremely happy with it.

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by tasuki »

ekianjo wrote: post #22

I guess the author has never heard of vim-wiki? > The way it works is that every time I run the script, it opens the note for that day in my editor of choice vimwiki's diary function does that for you under the hood.

Yes, it sounds like they reimplemented 1% of vimwiki...

Re: How I Manage My Random Daily Notes

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Post by StavrosK »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #57
StavrosK wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

That is really awesome, this kind of functionality would be a really awesome plugin to Joplin itself somehow. > 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 community of random knowledge dumps. Think of a Wikipedia, but made of personal sites and not as rigorous, with a very "personal Web 1.0 website" feel, but talking to…

> this kind of functionality would be a really awesome plugin to Joplin itself somehow.

Agreed, I looked for a plugin but unfortunately found none.

> Alongside this idea, would you use a browser plugin that shares your bookmarks as a stream?

I don't really use bookmarks, whenever I come across an interesting page I put it in https://historio.us, but they're too few to make a stream out of...

> Also, somewhat unrelated to that, would you pay for encrypted offsite joplin sync target/backups?

I don't think so, I prefer doing my own hosting and NextCloud/WebDAV works quite well, so I wouldn't want yet another account to manage.

> Unfortunately, since joplin doesn't have multiple "profiles"

Yeah, I ran into this problem with my script as well, where I wanted some notes to be private. For those, I just created a notebook that has "private" in the name and put them all there, the script skips them. Tags might work as well.

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