cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/51403759
Ok basically what the title ask. There are so many note taking apps available and also the good old notepad, but, how do you take notes? What do you actually take-keep notes on? Is it like complicated things or simple ones?
All time times that I started using an app or a pen and paper intended up just using a simple reminder for things. Others I just remember.
Zim just works.
I used to keep a text file in each project, with todo items at the top and a ‘done’ section at the bottom. File gets too big, start a new file.
Now I use a note taking program that stores markdown notes with links in between them. Kind of the same idea, mostly, some notes are to-do items and others are lists. I have about 10000 notes in there.
Obsidian sync’d with my desktop PC, usually. Though also experimenting with doing the same with Orgro. Both on my phone. If I happen to be in front of my PC, just org-mode in emacs.
I use notally for things I read on my tablet or phone, it loads quick on older devices which is the main goal. Otherwise I just get out a document for more important notes.
Currently, poorly. I’m trying to pick up some Zettelkasten habits. I started to, using Logseq, and now I’m trying to switch to Org-roam.
This is pretty much ditto to my status. I loved logseq’s paradigm of easy linking and transclusion from the journal dumps.
Are you trying to do something similar with org-roam? I still haven’t figured out my way around with the org (roam) ecosystem
If by transclusion you mean hyperlinks & copypasta, then yes. I’m looking at using Zotero as well. I still haven’t really gotten the hang of Emacs, never mind org-mode or org-roam. It’s a lot. Too bad I didn’t pick up Emacs decades ago instead of vi.
Yep, that’s what I meant. There’s an org-transclusion package aiming to reproduce logseq’s behaviour but editing from the embedded copy and updating the source isn’t as seamless.
I also use Zotero standalone for bibliography but I wanna move everything to emacs. There’s org-noter and bibliography support in org(roam).
But you’re absolutely right, it’s overwhelming, the amount of things one can do and the learning curve is steep
Notesnook at the moment. Excited that they’re started supporting self-hosting. It seems immature but working well for people. I’ll get round to hosting my own sync server when I have the time and maybe once self-hosting is more mature.
The walk in the bathroom of my pub.
Did you get my message about me being there, and also that part where I questioned your mothers sexual decency?
where I questioned your mothers sexual decency?
Oh she doesn’t have any of that.
That’s really not fair to her. She was more than decent - banging, if you will.
Only if you’re a fan of four hundred pound swamp donkeys with webbed toes.
I happen to have a specific type sir, and I will not sit here and be shamed for it. Good day.
email and notepadd++ are the most common but sometimes a calendar.
Obsidian vault in my cloud storage. Does everything I need with no bells and whistles.
Am I weird for just using a pen and paper? I recently upgraded my setup by buying a binder and ~1000 pages so I won’t have to burn through notebooks or money.
One thing that I know for sure is weird is that I use a fountain pen for it all…
Foxy Notes only one that I’ve stuck with
Complex stuff (talks, projects, brainstorming, etc): The notes get taken on paper. Some things stay there, because the act of writing them down is enough. Some things then move to my “second brain;” for personal stuff, that’s currently on Notion (I’m contemplating migrating it to Obsidian or something similar). For work stuff, that’s a Slack thread, or (if it’s really important) Confluence.
Todos go into Google Tasks. I used to use Todoist, but I got frustrated by how inflexible the notification system was.
Shopping lists (and a few other similar lists that need to be shared) go into Google Keep.
I have an entire Second Brain on OneNote organized into sections pertaining to many things. There is no tagging system. I have recently gotten into Obsidian. It is fully free and there are ways to get around the subscription to sync feature. It has tagging, uses primally markdown which I am now learning more of and so many free plugins like kanban style boards and spreadsheets. I had previously used links in OneNote to link to Google Sheets but now I will move some important info to Obsidian. Where you can link within and externally plus so many more features, and for all platforms.
The good old notepad. One-time notes go in my pocket, anything even short-term get put in the bullet journal.
Selfhosting Joplin with my partner on our synolgy nas. Works great, not perfect but good enough.
