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What note taking app (for code notes) are you using?

kristian on December 20, 2018

I have been using OneNote for a few years now and I am over the clunkiness. What is everyone using these days?
Having access via browser and OS X app is what I am looking for

William King • Dec 20 '18

I use Notion! It is amazing. notion.so

Stephen Chiang • Dec 20 '18 • Edited

+1 on notion... It has replaced the following apps for me:

Boostnote
Evernote
Trello
Parts of Google calendar

I use it for:
Tracking personal goals, projects, recipes, general ideas and inspiration, gift ideas, tasks, appointments, course notes in markdown, code snippets and workflow cheat sheets,and my workout log!

Luis Martins • Feb 2 '20

Curious, how do you guys use it for code snippets?

Mitchel van Eijgen • Mar 19 '20

I would also love a example on how to organise code snippets in notion. I was thinking of creating one big board with a tag on the different code bases, js, vue, php, regex, ect or create a board for each.

Guillaume • Apr 24 '19

Is the code experience better in Notion than Boostnote ?

William King • Apr 24 '19

I have never used Boostnote, but I have 0 complaints about code in Notion

Stephen Chiang • Apr 24 '19

There are some things that are more text editor-like with boost.

However, I'm more than happy with notion. I did ask them to create a new feature where you can specify the code type without having to select from a drop-down menu. Hopefully they'll implement it soon.

Ross Henderson • Dec 20 '18 • Edited

I use Boostnote. May not be what you're looking for, but I have it synced to my dropbox so I can multiple instances.

Stephen Chiang • Dec 20 '18

Boostnote is awesome and so is the team working on it. It's also an open source project that is great for people looking for oss opportunities

KevinConti • Apr 1 '20 • Edited

I've been working on codernotes.io to solve this problem, mostly because I couldn't find anything that had all the features I feel are important in a code note app.

I found a method that works for me that I wrote about here: codernotes.io/blog/how-to-take-cod.... Regardless of what software you use, see if that works for you!