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Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?
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#2I use OneNote! It's probably the only Microsoft software that I use, but its amazing. You are able to create Notebooks, that contain section-groups, sections, and pages. You can draw, record, paste, etc.
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#4Notational Velocity on the Mac, even if it isn't updated it still quickly stores and organizes (good for rough or final works). I'll use TextEdit or iA Writer if I need to actually work with the note or to publish. Sadly at least once a month I still need to use Office for Mac for something.
I don't personally have a need to save or insert data, images, or other content. If I really need to I'll insert the online URL or the location on my server in the note. Which makes a basic solution the best solution for me.
I also use iA Writer on my iPhone synced with iCloud for on the go access, and writing *nothing personal/private for security, secure notes are encrypted and accessed online or I use a physical air gap between machines I need it on.
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#5Mindly software's "bubble" on smartphone and TODO, NOTE, ..., in editor if they can't be immediately digested by Trac's ticket or wiki page.
If it's valuable it would end up as git committed record in sqlite Trac database, and simply erased if not.
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#6For everyone using OneNote I'd like to make the comment that there are actually 2 versions of OneNote that Microsoft makes. There is "OneNote" and "OneNote 2016". Windows has both versions while your phone and Mac has only the lesser featured but more modern looking "OneNote".
Personally, I got a Parallels VM running on my Mac with Windows just so I could use "OneNote 2016". Many more features including deeper organization and custom tags.
In general, as long as you plan it out properly, hierarchical organization tends to be superior to tag based organization, and "OneNote 2016" (and even the other version) are really good at hierarchical organization compared to say Evernote.
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#7WORK: I don’t a defined organizational system since it hasn't provided value for me, but my general guideline is to store the notes nearby the context of the associated topic. This can be in project file folder, on a white board, or in a collaboration tool wiki. my formats are usually txt files, email, paper (notebook, paper), or onenote. Often times I will write a note on a scrap piece of paper just to remember a topic better.
PERSONAL - I also always switch but Evernote has worked for the last year. here is my sample setup (although I do not swear by it similar to my work structure). I don’t like post-it notes near my home rig ; ). Here is a snapshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tlnzut54agbycnh/notes_screenshot_f...
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#8At work I log my activities and notes on an incredibly long text file.
For other notes I just email myself. I like email as a format. It's accessible on all platforms.
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#9At work I log my activities and notes on an incredibly long text file.
For other notes I just email myself. I like email as a format. It's accessible on all platforms.
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#10Org-Mode is great but not perfect. I would be willing to pay a significant amount of money for anyone that can reproduce most of the features of org-mode outside of emacs in a light-weight format.
It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult but it hasn't happened yet. People seem to start replicating org-mode, realize how many complex features there are and give fall off before completion.