I use Google Keep, Evernote, iPhone Notes, Google Docs, Facebook messenges to myself, and a bash script to take notes. The goal of this project is to take the best parts of each and create a centralized note system.
Use Cases:
- Quotes
- Images
- Unplanned reminders (if I pin something up, I will probably look over it when I open Keep)
- Links
Pros:
- Dashboard layout gives me a group of notes which I pinned up
- Easy to look in the past, scrolling down a little usually will go months in past
- Ctrl+V images
This is a command line note taker. Alias is ff because it's quick to type. Example:
ff Today, I went to the park"""
It records the date and stores the note in a text file.
- It's super convenient when I'm on laptop
- going through past notes is diffcult.
- Only way to query is by string search
- Different way of accessing data (vim textfile) vs entering (ff ${note})
- Local files are totally isolated
Sometimes, I just message myself on Facebook to record something down.
- Usually, when I'm on the go and only phone is accessible.
- Cross platform
- Hard to look in the past and search for something specific.
- It's circumstantially convenient
- I message myself for non-note reasons so things can get lost
- For longer style of notes, usually requires minimum 30 minutes to write a note
- Webclipper for taking notes on articles/blogposts
- Tags allow for psuedo organization (much better than categorization)
- Search is good
- Inconvenient because after clipping, I have to open the evernote web client and even wait before the clipped article shows up
- Notes at the top of the page instead of inline
- Easy to share a written up document
Not sure when I use this over Messenger (w/ respect to mobile) but it happens sometimes.
A lot of old stuff on here. I think Evernote has a better editor client so it's strictly better. (Except for pasting images). Good for collaboration and has inline commenting
- Webclipper like Evernote's
- Convenience of quicknotes
- Dashboard like Google Keep's
- Inline comments on webclipped articles (like those on google docs)
- Integration across phone, tablet, and laptops
- On phone, I only enter notes, never look at them
- Tablet use case is not important
- Able to search through all notes
- Unified tagging
- Backfill with old notes