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.
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…
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 a 20+ year old PDA for notes and other general productivity/organization needs. Distraction free, keeps me off my phone, and a fun conversation piece. Handy for staying on top of my ADHD.
Zim just works.
I use obsidian for just text stuff I need to remember later. If I need to do math or need a diagram temporarily I prefer pencil and paper. If I want to save diagrams for later I have a drawing tablet that I use like a whiteboard so that I can save and use layers. If you don’t have a drawing tablet Autodesk sketchbook is a decent substitute that can be used on your phone.
Vimwiki & syncthing
Lightweight, libre, synchs on all my devices. Links between notes. All I need.
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.
Nextcloud notes finally got good enough to replace google keep a while ago.
Been happily using that since.
The good old notepad. One-time notes go in my pocket, anything even short-term get put in the bullet journal.
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.
Selfhosting Joplin with my partner on our synolgy nas. Works great, not perfect but good enough.
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.
I use Logseq for work and it’s a godsend when trying to pull up old commands, code snippets, and when something happened.
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.
