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How and why do you take notes? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Kind of a broad question. I wonder why people take notes - Is it for studies or learning? Is it just to remember things? Is it to make your own map of your knowledge? Is it because you just want a place to vent out your feelings into the void?

What do you use to accomplish that? App? Paper? A chat room?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use it for all the reasons you've mentioned. I especially write down recommendations, ideas, thoughts that felt worth noticing, anything I think I'm going to forget that doesn't go on my calendar or somewhere else, and braindumping/processing my feelings.

I use an app called Logseq, because it combines the things I wanted from some of the other main apps in one place, which none of the other apps manage to do all of:

Outliner structure like Notion or Roam or Workflowy lets you have (my brain requires this format when taking notes)
Super fast page linking search, which Notion kinda sucks at but others are better at
Data is stored on my computer, like Obsidian; not in the cloud. It's stored as markdown (ish) by default.
Automatic daily page created for each day, like Roam
Mobile app is almost 1-1 feature parity with the desktop app, like Notion
Open source (mostly)

Logseq does have a moderate amount of rough edges, and has been frustrating from an open source perspective at times (I've had PRs linger for over a year before just getting rejected because they didn't want to bother with it), but it's still the one I like the most.

FYI though syncing between devices with it is still pretty shaky. They have a native sync for $5/mo that is getting reasonably good, and is in beta. Syncing files via other means is kinda risky/not-great UX.