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I take my notes in Notion and Roam Research, and you? [Week 29/2020 in Review]

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 on July 21, 2020

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Dragos Bulugean •

I like Notion and Roam, but they are not for developers, they're generic note taking apps.

This is why I built Archbee, an app that lets developers and their team note take everything from thoughts, diagrams, API docs, changelogs and more.

Try it and let me know what you think 🤗

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Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • • Edited

Hi Dragos,

thanks for sharing Archbee with us. I will definitely look.

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Dragos Bulugean •

much appreciated, Stefan!

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Τobias Whetton •

Great article, really interesting to read how you use different apps for your note-taking needs. I actually just posted a Show Dev about Supernotes, the note-taking app I am building, would love to hear your thoughts.

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Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 •

Hi Tobias,

Sure. I am gonna read your Shownotes and let you know what I think!

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George C. G. Barbosa •

I use todoist + github.
I keep a lot of my notes on a github project called 'life'.
I use GTD with todoist to do the rest.
There is also google calendar that is pretty much a must nowadays since everybody uses it.
I am looking for a method to go full github, but the fact that todoist gives me a cross device experience,
it seem to be hard to replace.

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Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 •

Thanks for your insights and experience. How do you organize the notes in your github projects?

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George C. G. Barbosa •

Nothing fancy.
I use markdown files for text.
The rest follows a similar structure to this:
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├── README.md
├── active-learning.md
├── books.md
├── goals.md
├── journal
│   ├── 2019
│   │   ├── april.md
│   │   ├── august.md
│   │   ├── december.md
│   │   ├── july.md
│   │   ├── june.md
│   │   ├── may.md
│   │   ├── november.md
│   │   ├── october.md
│   │   └── september.md
│   ├── april.md
│   ├── february.md
│   ├── january.md
│   ├── july.md

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jose palala •

Just sharing, another tool that's useful for note-taking is workflowy.

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Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 •

Thanks Jose, didn't know workflowy. Cool.

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Tawanda Nyahuye •

Nice review. Guess whose name appeared on tweet of the week? ヽ(•‿•)ノ

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Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 •

I am happy you liked it Tawanda!

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Emilie Ma •

Super cool resources shared - definitely will be looking more into second-brain / notetaking tools like Roam.

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Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 •

Thanks, Emilie. I am happy you liked it. Let me know what you think of Roam, once you tried it.