What is your favorite tool for taking notes?
Lodovico Sella
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Note-taking apps are a solid addition to any productivity suite and can do wonders for your information-storing capabilities. The purpose of note-taking is to ensure that you can capture the essence of a set of information so that you are not burdened with memorizing everything words by word.
What is your go-to tool for note-making? Mine is Apple notes, especially after the new update! 🚀
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Adham Dannaway@adhamdannaway
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Good old Google docs 👍
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@chrismessina I'll surely checkout Craft. 🚀Currently using Notion for work. But was looking out for some alternatives.🙌 I would love to share our micro learning platform - KoolStories. I'd really be grateful if you could spare out some time and share your feedback. 😊https://www.producthunt.com/post...
There's something very no frills and quick about Apple notes that keeps me using it, its the classic product that needs no marketing but addictive for adoption.
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Hot take: A lot of people over-index on note-taking apps. For me, Apple Notes gets the job done.
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While Notion is great, I love the simplicity and speed of Taskade. Some great updates in the last few months.
Evernote for everything!
Ulysses. It’s a distraction-free markdown editor designed for hipsters
I like Notion nowadays! Syncs seamlessly between mobile and my laptop!
For really small notes, I use things like blankslate, google keep, and then sometimes for larger things Workflowy. (I don't like the latter's pricing though)
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It depends on the use case. I have been using apple notes since 2014, so I am locked in. It is the go-to tool with an apple pencil if you sketch a lot.
But in terms of note search, Evernote is miles ahead where you can search images, say something which you think is in the note, and the AI finds it, etc.
Dropbox documents are also an excellent tool because you can directly transform a note into a collaborative template.
But Notion is by far the best note-take app in terms of functionality. Dynamic databases have destroyed about 100 start-ups and are a game changer. You can search fast, link notes, transform databases in calendars, do boards, etc. The notion is straightforward to learn.
When I did my second university study entrepreneurship, I used Notion.
To this day, I use Notion for research and apple notes for brain farts.
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I like basic colored sticky notes, both on PC and on mobile.
ColorNote on mobile, Microsoft's Sticky Notes on PC. Might have to give Obsidian a spin, though.
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I like Notion and MacBook Notes.
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Notes from Apple.
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Google Keep - for todo list, app ideas and other notes. I like its Android widget, it lets me quickly view my recent notes.
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Currently on Notion.
Won't be exploring for a while.
Else it will be an overkill
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Obsidian is my go-to. First I take notes on a notepad or on my phone, but I transfer them to Obisidian as soon as I can.
@luka_vasic what's your workflow look like?
Currently learning Obsidian and I feel like it's too much to transition from Notion to Obsidian.
Any advice how to overcome this?
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@ejgy I'm still new to it and I'm learning through youtube mostly, but my advice is to just start and not worry about making it perfect. Especially if you already have formed notes in Notion, you already have a great starting point.
For my workflow. I consume a lot of content and I have 2 note types (Content, Fleeting). Every time I get an idea I keep it in fleeting notes, and while consuming content, I try to recall what I learned and write it in Content notes, later on I expand it.
I'm always looking at new ways to connect notes and often come back to old notes to add more to them.
Here's a great illustration of a workflow that I'm striving to create: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-...
Drafts for quick capture, plaintext, and all sorts of scripted text conversions.
Tana for storage, organization, and recall. It's like if Roam Research and Notion had a baby.