In Part 1 of this series, I explained why I gave up paper notebooks, email, and note-taking software like OneNote over the years. I had taken up wi...
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I seriously recommend taking a look at Obsidian.
It is, in essence, just a nice editor for Markdown files, with some useful amenities, like a calendar for journal entries, that sort of thing.
I have used OneNote, Evernote, Joplin, and plain files. I like just files, but even with VS Code and Markdown, it didn't really work, because I wanted to be able to easily use it on my phone.
I decided on Obsidian because:
Sincerely, thank you, Darryl. You may have lead me to my starting point for finally building a working notekeeping/zettel. Also, thank you (sarcastically) for sending me down a rabbithole for two hours.
I already use obsidian and it just great on desktop. Right now i use Telegram saved messages for my phone note taking, why? cuz it fast. Still need to figure out how to sync between phone and obsidian
I use Obsidian, and since it does not have a Andriod client, I build a web interface with it, and it works perfectly for me: github.com/chenyukang/obweb.
I have the official Android app. What country are you in? Maybe it's blocked there.
yes, it's blocked. BTW, if you use official app, where is the data stored？We need the official sync service?
The data is stored in your filesystem, the same as with the desktop app.
The official sync service is not required, you can use anything you want for syncing. I use SyncThing, as stated in my original comment.
Maybe I can upload an APK...
Thanks for your sharing!
I didn't notice it, but currently I'm happy with my own solution :). I prefer to use a web app which could embedded in Wechat.
That's the benefit of everything in plain text. we can build our own tools based on it.
You nailed it! We can build our own tools and have our own processes. I hope I have stated this better in the latest (third) post in the series that was published today. Thanks for the comment!
Man, you opened rabbithole for me, whole weekend I have been watching obsidian videos. And its amazing whole new world I didn't know about.
Thanks for sharing your note-taking journey. Looking forward to your 3rd installment.
Not sure if you (or anyone else here) are on Discord but I'd like to extend an invite to a closed Alpha note taking / whiteboard program called Project Meta. The community has grown to over 700 members since June (4 months).
You can read more about the project here: projectmeta.netlify.app
Public Roadmap is here: notion.so/Project-Meta-Public-Road...
Discord server invite: discord.gg/2tUspn52
I'm a community Mod there and can say that everyone is extremely excited about the project and the small Dev team is super involved with user feedback, bug reports, use-case scenarios and 1-1 onboarding.
Oh, I just noticed that today (Oct 23) is your 4 year anniversary on Dev.to! Congrats.
Hello.
I will read both parts later.
Until last year I tried to take notes on Microsoft OneNote.
In many cases this is useful, but as I was trained dev, I started to need code snippets. While I could do it in OneNote for there is a code styling, there are still problems :
I was already using Github for 6 months before the idea of markdown struck me.
Why didn't I think about it earlier?
Since then, any new course I'd follow, I write notes in there in markdown.
I'll read both parts later and may update this comment or write a new one after. Hopefully I may learn a thing or two I did not integrate yet.
Cheers.
Have any of you tried checkvist.com? It sounds like what you are looking for. They've been around for about a decade and are still updating their changelogs with progress on improvements. I keep coming back to them for the simplicity.
I wrote my own note-taking system which automatically links pages together because I didn't want to get in the way of the collocational features of the words. If you want to see the current prototype it is at github.com/Tanami/maja
That's pretty cool!
foambubble.github.io/foam/ is where it's at
Notion.! Highly recommend
As much I want myself enjoying using Notion, I just can't so somehow. The mobile app feels really sluggish, I am guessing it's because it's not a native app but a wrapped-up-web-tech app. The disability of using it on my phone bums me so much
I recommend Notion as a handy service (to me).
When more? Thanks for sharing. Will follow.
It looks like it will turn into a four-post series right now. I'm trying to make sure and publish them on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Glad you're getting something out of it
I am excited to see the next part :)
I feel much of the same struggles and limitations in note taking and lists.
Looking forward to it :)
Enjoyed the read, thank you. Have you ever heard of org mode in Emacs? I find it amazing for note taking.
I signed up just to vote up this comment, org mode is the best for note taking, it's just a text format similar to markdown, but better (and older), give it a try!