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Note Taking in 2021

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Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by hyperluz »

Not even a mention to Onenote, Liquidtext and Outline?

IMHO, if you want to do digital note taking in 2021, your best tools are on iPadOS, Android and Windows, where such tools allows handwritten notes and optionally allow to convert those into plain text via OCR.

This or using one of those recent expensive last generation e-ink devices.

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by SilverRed »

waiseristy wrote: post #31
jrm4 wrote: post #18

Gotta get in the greatest (IMHO of course.) https://zim-wiki.org I'm continually baffled at how the rest of the world hasn't discovered this, but it could be because I sort of live at the margins of "ultra geek" and "normie." Local, self-hosted "wiki-like" tool. You write notes, it saves them, supports links and todos and calendars etc. Tons of plugins for math, git, etc etc. The killer aspect, I think, though. Any h…

ZimWiki was my favorite until I had mysterious performance issues on macos, so now I'm back to looking at browser-based solutions, ugh.

Yeah zimwiki seems to run on macos only by chance and not because anyone tested it or put any work in to it. I love using it on linux but when I tried out MacOS I had to use notes.

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by SilverRed »

jrm4 wrote: post #18

Gotta get in the greatest (IMHO of course.) https://zim-wiki.org I'm continually baffled at how the rest of the world hasn't discovered this, but it could be because I sort of live at the margins of "ultra geek" and "normie." Local, self-hosted "wiki-like" tool. You write notes, it saves them, supports links and todos and calendars etc. Tons of plugins for math, git, etc etc. The killer aspect, I think, though. Any h…

Zim wiki is awesome. You could even make it cloud synced by just having it save to your cloud storage folder. The only missing link is mobile support

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by nixass »

What do you use for taking notes in corp environment where data security is hard requirement and using 3rd party online solution (or the one that requires you to open an account for)? So far I'm stuck with offline solution (cherrytree, I'm with them since using Linux back in the day) which is not ideal but gets me going. Also it's relatively easy to make scheduled backups to internal servers where I can retrieve them in case of laptop failure and/or migration to new hardware. Not saying I really need to use other software than cherrytree but would like to try something else (you know, that itchy feel in the back of your brain).

Any good offline solution anyone would recommend?

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by ygra »

KTallguy wrote: post #50
petersellers wrote: post #41

Whenever one of these threads pops up I'm always surprised at the lack of responses for OneNote. For me it's pretty much perfect - it syncs with all my devices, supports the iPad pencil, supports OCR and text searching in images, has native apps, and it's free.

I used OneNote for a long time. It's not bad, but it has some quirks that I wasn't fond of: why are notes in these weird draggable boxes? When I decided to export my notes to a different format it was a huge pain. I ended up creating a keyboard macro script and cycling through each note one by one. Once I exported all my notes to word documents, I was able to convert them to markdown/org from there.

For me that actually is one thing I really love about OneNote and hate about everything that tries forcing my notes from something paper-like into something text-file-like because that's just not how I take notes. I tend to scribble into corners or wherever there's space. It doesn't linearize well, but it doesn't have to (at least for me).

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by keithnz »

I write markdown in text files and organize them into directories backed up by dropbox ( but could be anything really ). It works way better than all the different note taking apps I've used.

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by nullptr_deref »

I need help in making notes. Whenever I make some notes, the problem with my notes is that I don't revisit them because they seem to lack information on my first read. So I go back to the source and read it again. Each time I do it, I get new insight. So everytime I see these note taking posts, I don't get the point of making notes. How often do you guys revisit your notes?

Re: Note Taking in 2021

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Post by sunu »

swozey wrote: post #16
nxc18 wrote: post #4

Obsidian.MD works pretty well and meets all of the stated requirements. Everything is markdown on disk, but the tool is maintaining an index for linking things. The index powers search and graphing, but otherwise everything works just as well in VS Code. It works really well for me, with the one downside being it is an electron app. Because it is all markdown based, you could use a native tool of choice (I use Ulysse…

I use Obsidian and one thing I'm not getting about peoples concerns with e2e encryption - does nobody realize once it's decrypted on the devices you use (work laptops, etc since it's your ubiquitous note taking app) that anyone with access to your laptop (IT) has full access to every single .md file downloaded to your system? People talk about encrypting their vaults and everything else all the time. I've never seen…

e2e encryption is not trying to solve the problem you describe. If I'm going to open and view private notes on a non-private machine, no amount of encryption will help me.
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