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Ask HN: What App or Service Do You Use for Journaling and Note Taking?

7 pointsby allwynpfrabout 6 years ago
I'm already aware of the likes of notion, typora, pen and paper, Evernote, notable, boost, jrln. Just wanted to know if there is something out there I am missing and need to give a spin

7 comments

krrishdabout 6 years ago
Posted this here a few times in response to this q: I use an app that I made myself (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;write.itskrish.co" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;write.itskrish.co</a>), its defining features being:<p>1. you choose a fixed duration of time within which to journal (i choose 15 minutes even though it is initially tough to spend all of)<p>2. if you stop typing for more than a few seconds within the duration, you lose your writing<p>These constraints basically force me to dump anything and everything on my mind for the sake of continuous typing (to not lose what i&#x27;ve written), and I&#x27;ve been successfully doing it at least 1-2 times a week for a few years now. All your entries are also saved locally in-browser only, with the option to export a savefile. Source code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;krrishd&#x2F;write" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;krrishd&#x2F;write</a>
superflitabout 6 years ago
After trying several tools. I did choose and use Devonthink[1](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.devontechnologies.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;devonthink&#x2F;overview.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.devontechnologies.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;devonthink&#x2F;overvi...</a>). It is easy, cloud sync, encryption, plugins and is very smart. I can collect all kind of data (web pages, csv, json, formated) and it always fit nicely. Give a try<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.devontechnologies.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;devonthink&#x2F;overview.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.devontechnologies.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;devonthink&#x2F;overvi...</a>
mindcrimeabout 6 years ago
A combination of text files that I edit with Emacs or Eclipse depending on what I&#x27;m doing, and a self-hosted Mediawiki instance.<p>For TODO list &#x2F; task management stuff, I&#x27;m actually in the middle of building my own command line task manager tool that maps specifically to the way I like to do things. Once it&#x27;s a little bit further along, I&#x27;ll release it as Open Source in case anybody else might find it useful.
noir_lordabout 6 years ago
vscode with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=pajoma.vscode-journal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=pajoma.v...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=Gruntfuggly.vscode-journal-view" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=Gruntfug...</a><p>It stuck because it&#x27;s just markdown, vscode is always open and it syncs to plaintext in dropbox so is greppable, accessible from basically everything.
darpa_escapeeabout 6 years ago
Setup a TiddlyWiki instance with Docker several months ago and I&#x27;m very happy with it.
user7878about 6 years ago
Trillium
jolmgabout 6 years ago
org-mode