Kind of a broad question. I wonder why people take notes - Is it for studies or learning? Is it just to remember things? Is it to make your own map of your knowledge? Is it because you just want a place to vent out your feelings into the void?

What do you use to accomplish that? App? Paper? A chat room?

  • Phoenix [she/they]@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use it for all the reasons you’ve mentioned. I especially write down recommendations, ideas, thoughts that felt worth noticing, anything I think I’m going to forget that doesn’t go on my calendar or somewhere else, and braindumping/processing my feelings.

    I use an app called Logseq, because it combines the things I wanted from some of the other main apps in one place, which none of the other apps manage to do all of:

    • Outliner structure like Notion or Roam or Workflowy lets you have (my brain requires this format when taking notes)
    • Super fast page linking search, which Notion kinda sucks at but others are better at
    • Data is stored on my computer, like Obsidian; not in the cloud. It’s stored as markdown (ish) by default.
    • Automatic daily page created for each day, like Roam
    • Mobile app is almost 1-1 feature parity with the desktop app, like Notion
    • Open source (mostly)

    Logseq does have a moderate amount of rough edges, and has been frustrating from an open source perspective at times (I’ve had PRs linger for over a year before just getting rejected because they didn’t want to bother with it), but it’s still the one I like the most.

    FYI though syncing between devices with it is still pretty shaky. They have a native sync for $5/mo that is getting reasonably good, and is in beta. Syncing files via other means is kinda risky/not-great UX.