Obsidian vault in my cloud storage. Does everything I need with no bells and whistles.
this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2025
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I use a 20+ year old PDA for notes and other general productivity/organization needs. Distraction free, keeps me off my phone, and a fun conversation piece. Handy for staying on top of my ADHD.
Vimwiki & syncthing
Lightweight, libre, synchs on all my devices. Links between notes. All I need.
Obsidian sync'd with my desktop PC, usually. Though also experimenting with doing the same with Orgro. Both on my phone. If I happen to be in front of my PC, just org-mode in emacs.
I use obsidian for just text stuff I need to remember later. If I need to do math or need a diagram temporarily I prefer pencil and paper. If I want to save diagrams for later I have a drawing tablet that I use like a whiteboard so that I can save and use layers. If you don't have a drawing tablet Autodesk sketchbook is a decent substitute that can be used on your phone.
Currently, poorly. Iβm trying to pick up some Zettelkasten habits. I started to, using Logseq, and now Iβm trying to switch to Org-roam.
This is pretty much ditto to my status. I loved logseq's paradigm of easy linking and transclusion from the journal dumps.
Are you trying to do something similar with org-roam? I still haven't figured out my way around with the org (roam) ecosystem
If by transclusion you mean hyperlinks & copypasta, then yes. Iβm looking at using Zotero as well. I still havenβt really gotten the hang of Emacs, never mind org-mode or org-roam. Itβs a lot. Too bad I didnβt pick up Emacs decades ago instead of vi.
Yep, that's what I meant. There's an org-transclusion package aiming to reproduce logseq's behaviour but editing from the embedded copy and updating the source isn't as seamless.
I also use Zotero standalone for bibliography but I wanna move everything to emacs. There's org-noter and bibliography support in org(roam).
But you're absolutely right, it's overwhelming, the amount of things one can do and the learning curve is steep
Am I weird for just using a pen and paper? I recently upgraded my setup by buying a binder and ~1000 pages so I won't have to burn through notebooks or money.
One thing that I know for sure is weird is that I use a fountain pen for it all...
Selfhosting Joplin with my partner on our synolgy nas. Works great, not perfect but good enough.
Complex stuff (talks, projects, brainstorming, etc): The notes get taken on paper. Some things stay there, because the act of writing them down is enough. Some things then move to my "second brain;" for personal stuff, that's currently on Notion (I'm contemplating migrating it to Obsidian or something similar). For work stuff, that's a Slack thread, or (if it's really important) Confluence.
Todos go into Google Tasks. I used to use Todoist, but I got frustrated by how inflexible the notification system was.
Shopping lists (and a few other similar lists that need to be shared) go into Google Keep.
The good old notepad. One-time notes go in my pocket, anything even short-term get put in the bullet journal.
Nextcloud notes finally got good enough to replace google keep a while ago.
Been happily using that since.
Notesnook at the moment. Excited that they're started supporting self-hosting. It seems immature but working well for people. I'll get round to hosting my own sync server when I have the time and maybe once self-hosting is more mature.
Zim just works.
The walk in the bathroom of my pub.
Did you get my message about me being there, and also that part where I questioned your mothers sexual decency?
where I questioned your mothers sexual decency?
Oh she doesnβt have any of that.
That's really not fair to her. She was more than decent - banging, if you will.
Only if youβre a fan of four hundred pound swamp donkeys with webbed toes.
I happen to have a specific type sir, and I will not sit here and be shamed for it. Good day.
I used to keep a text file in each project, with todo items at the top and a 'done' section at the bottom. File gets too big, start a new file.
Now I use a note taking program that stores markdown notes with links in between them. Kind of the same idea, mostly, some notes are to-do items and others are lists. I have about 10000 notes in there.
On my tablet I use xournal++, and on my computer I use vim.
email and notepadd++ are the most common but sometimes a calendar.
I taught myself LaTeX in college and just hand typed notes during class in notepad++
An event or something I need to do on a specific time? Calendar app.
Something I need to do when I have time? The Simple Notes app has a handy widget which I havenon the phone homescreen to have it on my sight constantly to remember I have stuff that needs doing.
Anything else I use Quillpad for.
I have an entire Second Brain on OneNote organized into sections pertaining to many things. There is no tagging system. I have recently gotten into Obsidian. It is fully free and there are ways to get around the subscription to sync feature. It has tagging, uses primally markdown which I am now learning more of and so many free plugins like kanban style boards and spreadsheets. I had previously used links in OneNote to link to Google Sheets but now I will move some important info to Obsidian. Where you can link within and externally plus so many more features, and for all platforms.
I use Logseq for work and it's a godsend when trying to pull up old commands, code snippets, and when something happened.
Previously used OINotepad.
Now using neutriNote for quick note taking.
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