This is a great post - I've been struggling with this for a long time and tried a lot of different options and methods.
I want something that's easy to capture and search, bonus if it could tie that data into other stuff (APIs or similar). Google Keep and a Google Doc have been good for those snippets, I think back to 2011-2012ish. I've tried Notion, and Zoho Notebook, and Evernote, and others, but nothing has been "sticky" enough long term to be the main process.
Thanks for your reply, Dave! Seems like the problem is quite common - there's still much to innovate regarding solutions for taking quick and categorized notes. Would you mind sharing your routines of tagging or assigning categories to the notes you take?
For stuff I do in Keep, I have one color for all @spark
tagged stuff (for visual separation), and the @spark
tag for anything that's an idea or part of one. Those are usually the quickest "need to write it down so I don't forget" things.
I also have a Google doc that has a running list of ideas that's just called @spark
(yes, there's a theme here!). I add to the bottom, using the date as a header - might need to reorganize to Year-Month headers, depending on the amount you're adding. The eventual plan would be to use that doc as the holding place for all of it, copying in the Keep notes (or other quicker-capture apps) for longer-term reference (then archive the Keep note).
With any method, remember to go back and read the ideas in their entirety at least a couple of times a year. I've had some good stuff come from that. :)
This is a great post - I've been struggling with this for a long time and tried a lot of different options and methods.
I want something that's easy to capture and search, bonus if it could tie that data into other stuff (APIs or similar). Google Keep and a Google Doc have been good for those snippets, I think back to 2011-2012ish. I've tried Notion, and Zoho Notebook, and Evernote, and others, but nothing has been "sticky" enough long term to be the main process.
Thanks for your reply, Dave! Seems like the problem is quite common - there's still much to innovate regarding solutions for taking quick and categorized notes. Would you mind sharing your routines of tagging or assigning categories to the notes you take?
For stuff I do in Keep, I have one color for all @spark tagged stuff (for visual separation), and the @spark tag for anything that's an idea or part of one. Those are usually the quickest "need to write it down so I don't forget" things.
I also have a Google doc that has a running list of ideas that's just called @spark (yes, there's a theme here!). I add to the bottom, using the date as a header - might need to reorganize to Year-Month headers, depending on the amount you're adding. The eventual plan would be to use that doc as the holding place for all of it, copying in the Keep notes (or other quicker-capture apps) for longer-term reference (then archive the Keep note).
With any method, remember to go back and read the ideas in their entirety at least a couple of times a year. I've had some good stuff come from that. :)
That's a pretty good routine!