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Chris Woods

I use a mix of note intake mechanisms.

I use pen and paper in some contexts like meetings, phone conversations, and lectures where it's quicker to jot down some notes (hybrid of outline/bullet style and Cornell style, which I've recently started trying to adopt more, often with some scribbled diagrams or pictures) and then transfer to electronic format later.

Digital format is in markdown. I use a markdown plugin in my IDE and keep most of those in a git repo (the exceptions being private things that I don't want exposed in a git repo).

Until about a year ago, for some 15 years or so, all of my digital notes were kept in org-mode because I used emacs extensively, but I've really stopped using emacs over the past 12-18 months and markdown is "good enough" (although with just a sliver of the capabilities of org-mode).

For a quick note or URL that I want to share from my work device to my personal device(s) I use Google Keep.