Productivity

Unsaved notepad++ tabs.

Obsidian. It's just so good. The only sad thing is - it's not open source.

I use LogSeq at work. I have a lot of meetings, making a lot of notes and it's just so easy to put all of them into the right hashtags/topic/whatever. When used right, it really needs 0 extra organisational work. It's also really future-proof, easy to sync and also works on mobile.

Google Keep .

Pros: Works well across multiple devices. Never lost a note yet.

Cons: Limited formatting. Never know if it will end up in the Google Graveyard one day.

Joplin

I like being able to use markdown, put images, pdfs, and videos straight into my notes and view them there.

There's nothing I don't really like about it. I wish it did more things like:

• easily reference git PRs/GitHub issues
• watch a folder for changes and add everything to a note (there's a plugin for this but it doesn't work very ad-hoc)
• watch the clipboard/Windows snipping tool (this is supposed to be a folder but I can't find it) for images and add them
• timestamp changes
• export everything in a good format to track with git

OneNote

Easy sync across devices, fairly feature rich, interacts well with other work software, while being easy to separate work and personal.

Megacorp holds my data. But I just don't have the time/will to setup and maintain something self-hosted.

This is kinda dumb but I just use signal.

Supports audio, text, PDFs, csvs.

It depends.

• Todoist for basic everyday tasks

• Obsidian for projects, learning plans, etc.

• Unsaved Notepad++ tabs for Quick notes.

Neovim using Neorg.

:Neorg journal today (tab autocompleting each) brings up ~/YYYY/MM/DD.norg file, which includes support for stuff like keybind to cycle todo list box ticks, and uses chars for a NerdFont

I mostly use it for tracking what I did day to day for work, for entering into my timesheet at ebd of week and being able to ref back to it in my morning standup meeting, as well as leaving notes for myself on future days as a pseudo schedule.

IE if I wanna leave a note for next Tuesday I'd create and edit ~/2024/03/05.norg and pop it in there. On Tuesday when I journal today there it'll be ready for me.

Minimalist, simple, autocomplete supporting, parseable, inside neovim (which I already have open), it's perfect.

Pen and paper scraps.

Zettlr.

I'm using:

• ticktick for tasks, time management (pomodoro timer, kaban board), as day planner, its sticky notes feature to get tasks (with included task description, task info, links and such) on top of all other windows as reminder and guide.

• trilium notes for project based note taking.

• on windows microsoft sticky notes and on ubuntu xpad as sticky notes for quick notes, brain dumps. Which I then eventually migrate to ticktick as tasks with possible subtasks when thoughts have crystallized.

Bear Notes. I go and try other apps and end up coming back to Bear for its simplicity and stability.

On pc vscode

Pro: formatting

Con: manual organizing

Google Keep

Mine is going to sound funny. I've been working a long time and have literally decades of saved email in a structure that works for me. So when I take notes I do it as an email to myself.

https://standardnotes.com/ For a few years now