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What is your favorite tool for taking notes?
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! π
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@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?
@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-...
While Notion is great, I love the simplicity and speed of Taskade. Some great updates in the last few months.
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.
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.
MacBook Notes.
Also you can use this article to refer: https://www.techgeekbuzz.com/blo...
I use Lark, it's not a note-taking tool but can do the job. would grab Lark message as my note, it's super convenient
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.
Would you believe it if I said Notepad on Windows? It is the easiest one to open and get to. You lose the notes if you forget to hit save though!
I have long been a big fan of Notepad++. It is an amazing tool for taking notes, specially the find and replace feature. You can get a lot done using this nifty tool.
These are just my thoughts on Windows tools π
For now I use notability and default notes app.
I'm actually building a todo app and might add notes later on but right now it's a nice to have feature for the future
I like google notes for short and quick notes and notion in case I need to take notes on a topic on regular basis
I prefer to record some things in the memo on my mobile phone, but I haven't found particularly useful computer software for the time being, is there anything I can recommend?
After using Notion & Roam, I found out that that I need something more visual in nature. In any case, no app has all bases covered.
I am currently using Caduceus, but have also used evernote and Obsidian in the past which I found them to be very useful.
Google Keep - for todo list, app ideas and other notes. I like its Android widget, it lets me quickly view my recent notes.
Evernote is the favorite tool for many people because of its versatile features and ability to easily sync across devices. It can be used for taking notes, compiling research materials, creating a digital scrapbook, and more. Additionally, it offers annotation capabilities that help you track your thoughts and ideas as you work on projects.
Evernote also has a search feature that makes finding specific information quick and easy.
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.
Pen and paper with a simpler form of bullet journal
But now I'm using logseq on laptop and loving it as I learn. "Dump ideas in daily journal and create two way link" makes note taking quite effortless.
Have tried out Notion, Obsidian and even OneNote but they were quite robust for my personal use. So I just use Google keep simple and effective.
p.s Have you seen the meme where everyone in the beginning use apple notes and then go explore complex note taking and productivity apps and at the end just use apple notes xD
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