I am wondering how everyone takes notes? This can be while you're testing or doing some courses or you're just putting down a to-do. Do you have a specific notes taking application you use? Are you more of a pen and paper person (like me), do you use vim or emacs with org-mode?
I am interested in what everyone uses in case there is something better than what I am currently doing.
Thanks!
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I take notes by using OneNote. I find that it is very useful in gathering, organizing and tracking my notes digitally.
Here another on that uses OneNote. I find it easy to use, you can find back anything, even text inside screenshots, so I tend to integrate screenshots in my notes.
Haven't found my note taking app yet. Tried a lot of them, but none worked for me so far. Like the idea of Notion, but it's not ready yet. Currently I am using Notebook.
For really short notes I'm still using Google Keep, for larger notes like drafts of blog posts I'm using BoostNote.
It's file based and I'm syncing my notes folder via ownCloud, so I'm able to work on multiple machines.
There's also a mobile version, but I haven't used it yet.
Same with Google Keep. There's some feature missing but it work on all my devices and is accessible from everywhere easily.
BoostNote looks cool. I am checking it out right now...
What would be advantage over free Evernote? Is just about markdown support (that Evernote is lacking) or something else?
I've been using OneNote on my iPad to take notes at university. But after three years of note-taking the app started running slow... Maybe I should delete some notebooks, but I'm tempted to try Evernote now.
Of course I use the iPad mainly in the theoretical courses, I need pen and paper for math and any other practical courses.
I'm working through a large number of Coursera courses at the moment, and trying to compile good working notes from them. While I've played with Onenote, Evernote, and BoostNote, I struggled to get good integration between my notes and my code.
I'm finding the best solution is simply to use Jupyter Notebooks (inside a Docker environment) and push to Github. This way my notes and code examples are tightly integrated, and I can hop between my Linuxbox and Macbook with a minimum of fuss and drama.
The main challenge I have is that I'm not aware of any good tools for searching my notes in Jupyter notebooks. If anyone's aware of any tools, I'd love to hear it!
Are your notes from Courses public or you store them in a private GitHub?
All public. You can find them here and here. :)
I use Rocketbook everlast and then save them on the cloud
I also use sublime text to write my notes in markdown file and then convert those into PDF using pandoc extension using sublime text
I use Vim to note almost everything. However, I use pen and paper to think deeply, because drawing by hand reorganizes my brain in complex problem.
Pulling in an other thread related to this.
dev.to/aravindballa/do-you-write-n...
I usually have a notebook and pen beside me while developing. I write down todos and draw out stuff on it. We have specs written down in Notion.so. I also have a private pages in Notion where I write down stuff things like documentation and sometimes transfer stuff from my notebook here.
Writing down notes in markdown (with any editior like vscode) and keeping it on Github is also an option.
I use Dropbox Paper and it's worked very well for me.
I'm just using OneNote. Gets the job done.
I use OneNote for note taking, pen and paper for quick short-term reminders, and Google Keep for when I'm out and about and I don't have pen and paper handy.
I use Bear to sync notes between my iPhone and Macbook but also always have a paper notebook, because I learn things better when I write them down with a pen.