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Ask HN Researchers: What do you use for organizing your notes?
Right now I use simple latex and text files and let OS and Dropbox help me organize these scattered Notes ; but is there a good layer that would let me organize them?
Features that I would like:
1. Tag Notes and not deal with categories (folders and subfolder).
2. Search Notes and within the notes.
3. Back up the entire library of notes that I have taken.
4. Batch Rename notes.
5. Sort the notes of certain tags in preferred order. I hate renaming files starting with numbers(1.File 2. File) to force order in the file system.
5. If there were an abstraction of Workspace that would be awesome. So that I could save my session or revert to a previous state of notes. Or I could share a particular snapshot of my research notes. But not really necessary.
Almost like the Lightroom for my research documents. I wouldn't mind using an inbuilt text editor.
- jokull 16y agoI've been using Notational Velocity which is an OSX only app. I like that it's UI is keyboard driven and that it encrypts and syncs your notes to the cloud.
- thefahim 16y agoI just recently got hooked onto Evernote. Definitely lives up to the hype.
- inetsee 16y agoA lot of people swear by Org-Mode (http://orgmode.org http://orgmode.org) under Emacs. Everything is contained in a text file. Org-Mode adds tags, lets you collapse/expand sections like a folding editor, lets you search on tags, etc. As you might expect from an Emacs addon, it's exceptionally powerful.