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Ideal Note-Taking Platform?

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Re: Ideal Note-Taking Platform?

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Post by jacobroyquebec »

Hey all!

I've been trying to find the perfect software to organize my notes, thoughts and tasks.

I wasn't able to find any suitable candidate and wondered if the HN crowd is in the same boat.

Is there any posts of people who went down the same endless search you would recommend?

For reference, here's a post [0] explaining my requirements.

Re: Ideal Note-Taking Platform?

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Post by tamimio »

Just use obsidian and the github repo addon so all your notes are not only backed up in a private repo but also with Git revision.

Edit: reading your requirements I’m sure above satisfy them except probably ‘programming notebook’, unless there’s an obsidian addon for that.

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Post by filterfiber »

Obsidian with plugins!!!!

You can create some very powerful workflows with dataviewer, properties and templates.

Whatever note taking style you want really, automatically moving them to folders, etc.

I highly recommend using unique notes with tags to start with, you can reorganize it as you need.

I have #snippets for code snippets, #walkthrough, #todo. Theres plugins to automatically move these to folders if you want.

Notes can easily link or embed each other too, so going from bug -> bug -> project isn't an issue. And creating glossaries is super easy with dataviewer.

Bookmarks for glossary's and searching with tags a keywords makes it easy to find what you're looking for even if its in a pile. And properties let you mark things like "completed: false" for todo items.

The best part: All of your notes are markdown, so you can easily move them elsewhere if needed.

Re: Ideal Note-Taking Platform?

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Post by jacobroyquebec »

filterfiber wrote: post #6

Obsidian with plugins!!!! You can create some very powerful workflows with dataviewer, properties and templates. Whatever note taking style you want really, automatically moving them to folders, etc. I highly recommend using unique notes with tags to start with, you can reorganize it as you need. I have #snippets for code snippets, #walkthrough, #todo. Theres plugins to automatically move these to folders if you want…

Great to know, I always read that people dislike Obsidian for being closed-source. It's also not self-hosted by default, but seems possible with a sync plugin. Thanks, I will look into it!

Re: Ideal Note-Taking Platform?

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Post by jacobroyquebec »

tamimio wrote: post #5

Just use obsidian and the github repo addon so all your notes are not only backed up in a private repo but also with Git revision. Edit: reading your requirements I’m sure above satisfy them except probably ‘programming notebook’, unless there’s an obsidian addon for that.

Great idea! After a quick search, there's some plugins[0][1] that could work for my use case!

[0] https://github.com/twibiral/obsidian-execute-code [1] https://github.com/tillahoffmann/obsidian-jupyter

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