Honestly, I'm surprised at the amount of different answers here. It shows how personal note taking is to the user. I currently love notion. I switched over from Evernote, and it has been a game changer. The only downside is I'm tied to notion (the company), in a way I wouldn't be if I used something like markdown and git. That said, I think it's worth it to have the features in notion.
How I Manage My Random Daily Notes
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#92Honestly, I'm surprised at the amount of different answers here. It shows how personal note taking is to the user. I currently love notion. I switched over from Evernote, and it has been a game changer. The only downside is I'm tied to notion (the company), in a way I wouldn't be if I used something like markdown and git. That said, I think it's worth it to have the features in notion.
What features do you use?
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#94I 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…
For most things, paper works best for me for capture, and then the additional step of transcribing / summarizing into my corpus of org files gives me a chance to structure and review.
But I have a notebook and a (fountain!) pen on my desk all day long, right next to my keyboard and mouse.
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#95I 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…
Great until you lose the paper.
same for digital: great until you get hacked or loose your data some other funny-digital way ;-)
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#96I get why folks like paper, but I'd lose it, it'd get spilled on (because kids). That, and it's just so easy to get buried in piles of paper… so I do everything digital. I even work to stay as paperless as possible.
I'd like to make a plug for Standard Notes.
standardnotes.org
I don't work for them. I get nothing from mentioning them.
It's cross-platform, and you have the option of encrypting things. It's my go-to place for notes.
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#97As I've mentioned elsewhere, I have a fairly straightforward "personal knowledge management" (PKM) methodology. 1. Capture: every interesting idea that I think up or read is immediately stored in Google Keep (on mobile or laptop). It can be very rough at this point, the goal is simply to not forget. 2. Transcribe & Organize: every weekend, I go through the notes I accumulated during the week. It tends to be between 1…
This sounds like a good idea if you are on top of things. I was going to push back by saying it almost sounds like a chore, but a lot of the reason notes are jotted down is in fact to learn. So this process makes a lot of sense in retrospect.
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#98I 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.
What turned me off about Joplin was how awkward it was to link to other pages. I might have missed something, but by default I think that takes creating the other page first, then manually copying its id -- way too much clicking, and breaks the focus on what you're writing. In the end, I ended up using Obsidian ( https://obsidian.md ). While typing (even in an outside editor), I can just go [[random reference]] -- an…
Agreed. In Joplin internal linking is a pain and that makes it a bad Zettelkasten. However, Joplin is not meant to be that, Joplin is more of an Evernote alternative, which is made for collecting information rather then connecting it. For that Joplin is awesome.
For my Zettelkasten and writing I use Obsidian. They are fantastic in tandem.
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#99Honestly, I'm surprised at the amount of different answers here. It shows how personal note taking is to the user. I currently love notion. I switched over from Evernote, and it has been a game changer. The only downside is I'm tied to notion (the company), in a way I wouldn't be if I used something like markdown and git. That said, I think it's worth it to have the features in notion.
What features do you use?
Templates, Linked Database, Styles/Designs, Sorting/Filtering of databases. I also follow alot of Ali Abdaal workflow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONG26-2mIHU
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#100I am very surprised nobody has yet mentioned Notational Velocity, or better yet the fork nvALT [1].
I hate any _friction_ to writing a note. I just want to get it out of my brain (or find it, if a previous thought) as quickly as possible.
With nvALT you start typing and it is searching immediately, but if there is no match and you hit enter you are now writing a new note.
Each note is stored as a text file, and so is findable via other search methods on your machine, and is easy to sync via your chosen technology.
I have tried a variety of approaches as I love the idea of linking between notes, and adding images, and tagging and all that stuff. But in reality all of that adds friction, and so prevents me from making the note (which is the critical part).