personal-site/content/text/note-taking.txt
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aka notetaking
Solutions
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Desires
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- Open source
- End to end encryption
- Portable data store - md (or exportable)
- Images
- Rich text editor WYSIWYG
- Linking notes together
- to whole note or header in note
- Sync
- Mobile support
- Folders
- Undo / versioning
Reviews
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Joplin:
- UI is very fast
- has its own sync server now, wait to mature?
- scroll in render view glitchy / laggy when zoomed
- WYSIWYG editor breaks some markdown
- clicking links in WYSIWYG requires ctrl
- can't see note names in notebook tree, so will be hard to find
- maybe that's better?
- mobile app lacks WYSIWYG
- mobile app md editor scroll shitty
- slow to edit notes in mobile app
- white flashes on dark mode desktop theme when switching notebooks
- Todo feature is cool. can make each note a todo and use the body to add context / info
- easy to rearrange todos
Obsidian:
- highly reviewed, looks sexy but needs more contrast
- no WYSIWYG editor yet - planned
- has graph and backlinks
- not open source
- files stored as plain text
Wiki.js:
- Supports LaTeX
- Support Markdown (it also supports formats such as html)
- Works in-browser (and therefore can be accessed on any device)
- Editing is easy (although this sounds like a "duh" feature, many self-hosted note apps are more like static site generators)
- Uploading files is simple
- Has multiple backup options (I use GitHub and .gitignore the textbooks)
Boostnote:
- no mobile support
Trilium:
- great encryption
- poor mobile support, Dom uses telegram as a buffer
- fully tried it, mobile is just too broken
- doesnt scroll all the way to the bottom of folders and note contents
- lots of other minor bugs
- parts of UI not updating like archived notes
- randomly refreshes the page
- header sizes all look the same
- today note button is slow to load
Simplenote:
- not self-hosted
- no folders
Turtl:
- buggy app
- bad organization system
Org-mode
- needs emacs
Taskwarrior:
- command line only
Zim:
- no built in sync
- no mobile
TiddlyWiki
- no built in sync
- one html file
- modern browsers block some file features?
https://collectednotes.com/
- no android
- watch them
https://github.com/athensresearch/athens
- not finished, keep an eye on
- ugly theme
Outline:
- https://www.getoutline.com/
Zenkit: proprietary
OneNote: proprietary
Google Keep: proprietary
Synapbook: proprietary
Workflowy: proprietary
Notion: proprietary, UX issues: https://news.t0.vc/DCGM
Roam Research: proprietary, cool graph feature though
RemNote: proprietary, spaced repetition
https://contexted.io/
https://rwtxt.com
Stuff to read:
https://news.t0.vc/YUAT/c
https://news.t0.vc/WLJJ/c
https://news.t0.vc/ORXL/c
https://old.reddit.com/r/CGPGrey/comments/ihkqjp/cortex_105_atomic_notes/
The perfect note-taking app:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpcVQeF07G4
- goes over the three types of note-takers
- librarian: likes to catalogue, usually write-only -> evernote
- gardener: likes connecting ideas in their own way -> roam
- architect: likes designing processes and structure -> notion
Formatting / Template
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Unformatted info can just be sentences, paragraphs, or points.
Section
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Place two empty lines before the section header, empty line after
Subsection
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Sub-subsection:
No linebreak for text within a section
Generic lists or steps:
- dash then a space
- lower case for prose
- Data points: gets capital
- like this
- sublists
- two spaces, dash, space
Todo lists:
o unfinished task
v finished task (looks like check mark)
x cancelled task
- I wonder if I should just use markdown?
* notes to consider
$ commands to run