5 ms·

plain text files and your favorite editor, whatever that is. things that should be encrypted are either gpg encrytped or put in my password manager. Bonus if

by zie 8y ago

plain text files and your favorite editor, whatever that is. things that should be encrypted are either gpg encrytped or put in my password manager. Bonus if you format your plain text with markdown or asciidoc or whatever your fav. plain text markup language is. Don't make it more complicated than it needs to be. Put it in a VCS for super double bonus points :) me personally: Vim, asciidoc and in a fossil repo.

asciimo 8y ago
Same here. Vim, Markdown, and GitHub. I can easily sync between my laptop, work computer, and desktop via git.
- JasonFruit 8y ago
  Emacs, Markdown, and self-hosted Git. I love when things are too simple to break.
craftyguy 8y ago
I wonder if there's a vim plugin to automatically call gpg to decrypt a file, NOT put it in swp, and re-encrypt it with gpg when writing it to disk... Edit: and there is![1] I'm definitely using this. https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3645 https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3645
ximm 8y ago
Actually, I don't even understand why anyone would think that you need a dedicated app for note taking. - Markdown rendering can be done with pandoc - Structure and search can be done with a solid file structure and grep - Sync can be done with git or any other syncing solution out there. - Encryption can be done with gpg (vim-gnupg) Serious question: What feature is missing from this workflow (assuming the audience are developers)?
- msh 8y ago
  Mobile access, I often needs to jot down or read a note on my phone
- tomjen3 8y ago
  The ability to take notes from a phone, render math, search by tags and in line images. Oh and forwarding emails, adding todos and have them show up as due today, sorted, etc. The last part could be scripted somewhat easily.
- BinaryIdiot 8y ago
  > I don't even understand why anyone would think that you need a dedicated app for note taking. You're missing a big part: user experience. Everything you said, sure, that's great. But the majority of developers (or really just people in general) don't want to spend their time learning each one of those things and trying to piece something together when a single app can do it good enough for them. I too stopped using a dedicated note taking app but I already understand how to use markdown, git, etc. But for the average user or the user who just wants something to work without trying to look up multiple things or, hell, even the user who wants access on all of their devices like a phone, this solution make absolutely no sense.
greyman 8y ago
> plain text files and your favorite editor I tried this solution as well, but I missed one core feature of Evernote, that you can search by tags or keywords, and it instantly list all related notes.
- confounded 8y ago
  ... grep?
  - greyman 8y ago
    That is possible, but more impractical. In Evernote, I just click Win-Shift-F within any application, and then directly type the search keyword, and then get the list of notes, which I can preview in another window. It's just not the same experience.
  - cpach 8y ago
    Grep works fine on a desktop OS but not so well on a smartphone or tablet.
raverbashing 8y ago
It works, but it doesn't sync to mobile devices
- swebs 8y ago
  You could save them to a directory that NextCloud is watching.
  - Fnoord 8y ago
    Interestingly, Nextcloud/Owncloud has its own note taking app [1]. Android versions on F-Droid [2] [3]. Its also available in Play Store. [1] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/notes https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/notes [2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/it.niedermann.owncloud.notes/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/it.niedermann.owncloud.notes... [3] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.aykit.MyOwnNotes/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.aykit.MyOwnNotes/

by zie 8y ago

asciimo 8y ago

Same here. Vim, Markdown, and GitHub. I can easily sync between my laptop, work computer, and desktop via git.

JasonFruit 8y ago
Emacs, Markdown, and self-hosted Git. I love when things are too simple to break.

craftyguy 8y ago

I wonder if there's a vim plugin to automatically call gpg to decrypt a file, NOT put it in swp, and re-encrypt it with gpg when writing it to disk... Edit: and there is![1] I'm definitely using this. https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3645 https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3645

ximm 8y ago

Actually, I don't even understand why anyone would think that you need a dedicated app for note taking. - Markdown rendering can be done with pandoc - Structure and search can be done with a solid file structure and grep - Sync can be done with git or any other syncing solution out there. - Encryption can be done with gpg (vim-gnupg) Serious question: What feature is missing from this workflow (assuming the audience are developers)?

msh 8y ago
Mobile access, I often needs to jot down or read a note on my phone
tomjen3 8y ago
The ability to take notes from a phone, render math, search by tags and in line images. Oh and forwarding emails, adding todos and have them show up as due today, sorted, etc. The last part could be scripted somewhat easily.
BinaryIdiot 8y ago
> I don't even understand why anyone would think that you need a dedicated app for note taking. You're missing a big part: user experience. Everything you said, sure, that's great. But the majority of developers (or really just people in general) don't want to spend their time learning each one of those things and trying to piece something together when a single app can do it good enough for them. I too stopped using a dedicated note taking app but I already understand how to use markdown, git, etc. But for the average user or the user who just wants something to work without trying to look up multiple things or, hell, even the user who wants access on all of their devices like a phone, this solution make absolutely no sense.

greyman 8y ago

> plain text files and your favorite editor I tried this solution as well, but I missed one core feature of Evernote, that you can search by tags or keywords, and it instantly list all related notes.

confounded 8y ago
... grep?
- greyman 8y ago
  That is possible, but more impractical. In Evernote, I just click Win-Shift-F within any application, and then directly type the search keyword, and then get the list of notes, which I can preview in another window. It's just not the same experience.
- cpach 8y ago
  Grep works fine on a desktop OS but not so well on a smartphone or tablet.

raverbashing 8y ago

It works, but it doesn't sync to mobile devices

swebs 8y ago
You could save them to a directory that NextCloud is watching.
- Fnoord 8y ago
  Interestingly, Nextcloud/Owncloud has its own note taking app [1]. Android versions on F-Droid [2] [3]. Its also available in Play Store. [1] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/notes https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/notes [2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/it.niedermann.owncloud.notes/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/it.niedermann.owncloud.notes... [3] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.aykit.MyOwnNotes/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.aykit.MyOwnNotes/