👂 Sly
What is your note taking method/workflow ? And what tools do you use ?
🧿 Andrea
I tried roam research but found it too unstructured; then I read about "building a second brain" and its workflows, projects, labels and it clicked: what I needed was something like Jira, but with better ux, so I set myself up a linear.app workspace and I'm quite happy
‼️ Rob Gough
I use a simple plain text (markdown!) file, and a set of "personal rules" to create my equivalent of a bullet journal. I used to have a file per week (and have been doing this for years, so it's neat to go and look back through history) -- but I've just switched to a file-per-day system instead, with a few handy terminal functions/aliases for when I type things like "today" "tomorrow" "yesterday" "next week" to auto generate the file and/or open it in vim.
📚 Terry Mcginnis
Tried a few things but they all lacked dynamic programming capabilities so now I'm building a custom memex. Backend consists of CouchDB, MeiliSearch, Apache Tika, Tesseract OCR, Ruby, and Node.js. The plan is to have a programmable web frontend that will allow traversing a personal knowledge graph using arbitrary search and linking operators.
🐵 David
I use Notes app (iOS, macOS). My work markdown "wiki" is managed with Typora (all markdown files on OneDrive).
Runlevelrobot
I use drift found here --> akhater.github.io/... It's written from tiddlywiki. I love it.
👂 Sly
That looks amazing! It's just a single file ? Does automatically saves changes into the file ? How does one keeps it up to date without loosing data ?
Runlevelrobot
Well you can use github to save to or you can get a browser plugin called Timmi that will save automatically found here ibnishak.github.io... And yes its one file!
🗨️ Fui
I now use markdown on the most comfortable text editor I can find. Any will do, but I'm currently leaning towards Code-oss (VSCode's open source version). While reading, I jot everything down on paper. I then transcribe these notes and organize them in a Zettelkasten way. When talking to people, I also take notes on paper. Tl;dr: notes on paper+markdown transcriptions afterwards.
🐧 Aditya
I think that orgzly, which is an android implementation of the emacs org-mode deserves a mention here
Uscrea M.
workflowy.com - simple, reliable saas tool i've used every day for the past 7 years
🎲 Jamie
Currently using org-roam in Emacs. It's pretty good, though I think it would make more sense if I was also more invested in Emacs outside of org-roam.
☝️ Jean-David Moisan
I take a lot of notes with Milton. I wrote an article about it here: jeandavidmoisan.co...
Dan Heath
Pen and paper for day-to-day note taking and to do lists. Its ubiquitous, cheap, and has infinite ways of capturing thoughts. Of the information I need to retain for a long time that I can't commit to memory I use Apple Notes.
❄️ Geoff
Mostly using Notion now. Was on Roam but wasn't worth paying for IMO. I like the non-linear aspect of it, but I think you also need to organize better than they enable. I built a back-linking type ability into Notion. Typically goes in this order Raw notes (on the content I consume) -> Reference notes (take-aways in my own words) -> Mental models (usually piecing together reference notes to create a heuristic)
🎲 James York
Google Docs get the bulk of my notes which get commented on and tidied as a project forms. (I'm mainly taking notes on teaching practices, which then get turned into journal articles or other long form posts).
⌨️ Joseph
Right now I just have a giant text file under version control. I'm in the middle of switching to org mode now though.
🌊 Zero Two
I use handwrite notes on goodnote5 or type on notion
Cole Hudson
I'm very haphazard in taking notes, vim, git, and plaintext are my tools of choice. But if you're looking for something novel, you might try Roam Research, it's basically some approximation of what Project Xanadu was supposed to be
💻 Kernel
Currently experimenting with non-linear notetaking using Obsidian.md. It's the free version of Roam.
🎲 James York
Thank you for mentioning this. I picked it up and really like how minimalist it is. Being able to connect pages together is a fantastic feature that makes a lot of sense to me. Exciting!
🍁 John J.
Me too. What do you think so far? I'm very happy that spellchecking has been included recently. (Even if it is just a single dictionary.)
💻 Kernel
It doesn't run as smooth on all my devices. I wish the graph view had some more options (showing tags and allowing more sorting). Also I don't like that there is a separate edit and a preview mode, when I'm taking lecture notes I want to be able to see inserted figures immediately. What do you think?
🍁 John J.
Ah, interesting. I'm still in the early stages with it, to be honest. Runs really well on Linux, from my experience. I haven't really used the graph functionality much at all, and I didn't even take in that other mode distinction; pretty much working exclusively with text right now. I came to Obsidian as a means of building a zettelkasten; it, and my process, are both very much still in their infancy.
🧉 Martin
With regards to remembering things, I use Anki. It's old school, but by far still one of the best flash card apps. Flash cards combined with spaced repetition has been shown time and time again to be one of the most effective ways to remember things. I use it mostly for foreign language vocabulary, but sometimes other things I want to ensure stay available in my mind. Not note taking per se, but thought it was worth mentioning.
🔻 Trinity
Anki has been invaluable for my learning Japanese. It gamifies it enough to be rewarding but not enough to become addicting.
🐧 Aditya
Another Anki japanese learner reporting in! I use the KanjiDamage and 2k core vocab decks. Wbu guys?
🎲 James York
I used it only for studying Japanese too (haven't found a use for it outside of that though...)
👂 Sly
Thanks for sharing! Any tips on how to take notes while learning programming? I am having a difficult time finding a method that works, everything is 2 searches and 3 clicks away, it just feels unnecessary most of the time.
🔻 Trinity
Even the most skilled programmers use DuckDuckGo constantly. It's unnecessary and sometimes even inefficient to memorize all the commands in a language because there are so many languages most people work in. That being said, when I started to learn to code I wrote down commands I used often - on paper! CLS, CD, ECHO, etc back when I got started on MS-DOS and was using BASIC. Might be a good idea if you still know how to write (I can't really anymore).
🧉 Martin
Honestly I've never really done anything special. I think plenty of "doing", i.e. using the thing in some way as apposed to (only) writing about it, helps a lot in cementing the concepts in your head. Having said that, from a purely note-taking perspective I do nothing more clever than write in Notes.app (macOS) following no particular kind of system, I'm afraid. Hopefully there are other pro note-takers who have better advice for better note taking.