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notesnook.com
Notesnook is not open source (you cannot self-host it, you must pay them). FWIW, Standard Notes is also very difficult to self host, though if you dig deep enough you can actually find the server and some outdated documentation. FWIW, I settled on https://github.com/zadam/trilium which is very bare-bones but fully open source and self-hostable.
Question for anyone that consumes a lot of PDFs as I do: what do you use instead? Manual data insertion is an absolute no. So that leaves the Zotero alternatives, but quick search shows 0 mentions for any of them too.
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What is the benefit of moving on to a new repository? It's not like Git would have a performance problem with thousands of small text files, and it's just as easy to organize (actually much easier) within a single root than within multiple roots.
I am adding to my journal every day. If someone checks my journal on Monday, unless they scroll to the bottom to check for new journal entries on Tuesday, they shall miss the journal entries I added Tuesday. (Unless they come back but I feel I have one chance to gain a regular reader) I submit to HN when I reach a new batch of 100-300 entries. I don't want people to not see the new entries. I only tweak or add to old…
I think it's because you put a number in your titles so they all looked like blog spam articles '100 ways to improve you sex life'
I find all online note taking to be useless because you can’t efficiently and effectively draw on any existing platform with anything like the convenience of p&p. Also, why aren’t you all just using gDocs, like everyone else? Self hosting your personal notes seems like you’re putting your precious brain dumps one drive failure away from disaster.
I prefer pen and paper for most things. For that I'd recommend the supernote [1] with the utmost confidence. It has single-handedly changed my life. My biggest issue was I wanted to go digital (because paper sucks to handle) but my experience with the usual suspects in the tablet market left a lot to be desired. I didn't really need all the bells and whistles. Just a paper replacement. I didn't want to use org mode o…
My iPad is still confined to paper replacement duty, and it excels.
I’ve been typing for a long time, but I like taking notes by hand in a notebook. Just works well for me.
ITT someone who hasn't heard of Obsidian
But I don't think any one note taking style or software would apply to 2 people. Everyone's thought process is so different. I tried doing the Zettlekasten but it didn't work out (for me). The worst problem with taking notes is finding them (and God knows all these tools don't make it easier). It's tragic to see that search is often last on the list.
What I wish for is search like Google (when it was better than it is now) for my own notes - intelligent, fast, and predictable.
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Org (org-mode) supports many link types, and you can easily define more: https://orgmode.org/manual/External-Links.html It's a shame the Ruby renderer used by GitHub and GitLab doesn't understand them. I've been intending to patch it. In the meantime, one can always define a CI task that uses Emacs to export to HTML.
doesn't that (export to html) already exist as part of org-mode?
I'm a software engineer. My thinking process gets better as I develop and implement things. I cannot write notes and then implement. There were times when I wished I took notes/planned before implementing, but nothing to make me regret. It is just more refactor and time consuming to rewrite things.
I feel like note taking is overrated and trendy like AI/ML (like DALL-E or Stable Diffusion). I wish someone can mentor me to takes notes and make understand the value of it. And I read a lot of blog post about it.