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Ask HN: How do you manage your notes?

4 pointsby zabanaalmost 8 years ago
Do you have a specific framework &#x2F; methodology for taking notes ? Do you take notes at lectures ? Do you ever review them ? What tools do you use ?<p>Thanks

2 comments

Phithagorasalmost 8 years ago
Paper and ink, in separate notebooks for each subject. Review the next day, and again before any exam that the material is likely to be on. I find paper is faster, easier to copy equations, and easier to read later.
clraalmost 8 years ago
This may be oversimplistic for many people&#x27;s use cases, but personally I write my notes in Markdown and store them all as plain text in a Dropbox folder. I search them the same way I search code with The Silver Searcher (`ag`) [1].<p>It works well for me and I don&#x27;t run into any problems with being locked into software that&#x27;s either not interoperable with anything else, or which is no longer maintained a few years from now.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ggreer&#x2F;the_silver_searcher" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ggreer&#x2F;the_silver_searcher</a>