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Best tool for capturing ideas anytime, anywhere

2 pointsby strimp099over 9 years ago
What do you use to capture those genius ideas when you&#x27;re on the bus, listening to SoundCloud, at the gym, whatever.<p>Ideally to collect text, voice, clippings, links, aggregate news, etc.<p>I&#x27;ve tried Evernote, Paper (albeit a while ago), Trullo, iOS Notes, iOS Reminders, Voice Memo, Jira, even good old paper and pen.

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DrScumpover 9 years ago
I use Jota Text Editor in conjunction with Dropbox on my Android phone. This way, I can read <i>and write</i> using all of my devices with the contents synched to all other devices.<p>I used Note Everything for a long time before that but became annoyed that they don&#x27;t have a built-in export capability, even in the paid version. (I found a clever hack that let me export all contents at once with minimal fixup.)<p>This likely works with other editors, too, but Jota handled this cleanly out of the box.
DiabloD3over 9 years ago
Evernote and OneNote (I&#x27;m switching from one to the other, but both are good). They both require you to have a way of cataloguing your data: YOU must have a system of doing it, and both of them will mostly comply. The better your system, the better ANY tool works for you.<p>Its either that, or back to paper and pen.
rajeshmrover 9 years ago
Simplenote,works best for me. No nonsense approach to notes. Just text, nothing else.