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I'm still writing some notes in Evernote on my mobile, but on desktop I've just switched to markdown notes in a Dropbox folder. I have a vim plugin now that gen

by icc97 8y ago

I'm still writing some notes in Evernote on my mobile, but on desktop I've just switched to markdown notes in a Dropbox folder. I have a vim plugin now that generates a html preview as I type. I think markdown is the most future proof technology for the moment because you can just use pandoc to convert it or most note systems will accept markdown as an input format. I'm not sure how tags would work in markdown, I guess you can create links manually but that's not really what you want.

saidajigumi 8y ago
I suppose the set of features I need covered include: - Web clipping. Evernotes browser plugins are pretty darn good here. - Notes with attachments (images, PDFs, etc.). Some of these are mixed-media notes, where text, images, and/or file attachments are mixed to create a comprehensive document about some topic. Others are "pure" attachments, e.g. "store this PDF where I can retrieve it by search". - Note taking. This, in isolation, is the easiest. - Note syncing, mobile and desktop. This gets a bit harder. - Search. Let's be clear, this was the first and biggest killer feature of Evernote. Notebook and tag organization are important, but rather than just providing direct hierarchical/taxonomic organization, they're largely there to support search with user-defined search facets. I'd also love good Markdown support – that's one of my most-wanted features from Evernote in the first place.
- irrational 8y ago
  So, you feel search in Evernote is good? Personally I've found it severely lacking. I can't tell you how many times I've searched for something that I know is there (and that I do find after manually looking for it), but search comes up empty.
  - the6threplicant 8y ago
    I think you have found most people's problems, not just with Evernote, but with all other clipping services: it's write often, read once (if at all).
  - icc97 8y ago
    Yeah I prefer ripgrep with a bunch of markdown files.
  - saidajigumi 8y ago
    That's interesting, and absolutely not my experience. Search has been robust, finds what I need, and absolutely worth having. Might be worth a support request -- maybe there's some undetected lossage in your account's search indices and they need a rebuild. (Or maybe you can kick that off self-service?)
- icc97 8y ago
  > Note syncing, mobile and desktop. This gets a bit harder. The dropbox text editor works 'ok'. It's not great, but it's clean enough that I can edit my markdown notes and they'll be synced with dropbox.
irrational 8y ago
What vim plugin do you use?
- icc97 8y ago
  https://github.com/euclio/vim-markdown-composer https://github.com/euclio/vim-markdown-composer Requires a rust compile of the code in the plugin, but once that's working it works well.

by icc97 8y ago

saidajigumi 8y ago

I suppose the set of features I need covered include: - Web clipping. Evernotes browser plugins are pretty darn good here. - Notes with attachments (images, PDFs, etc.). Some of these are mixed-media notes, where text, images, and/or file attachments are mixed to create a comprehensive document about some topic. Others are "pure" attachments, e.g. "store this PDF where I can retrieve it by search". - Note taking. This, in isolation, is the easiest. - Note syncing, mobile and desktop. This gets a bit harder. - Search. Let's be clear, this was the first and biggest killer feature of Evernote. Notebook and tag organization are important, but rather than just providing direct hierarchical/taxonomic organization, they're largely there to support search with user-defined search facets. I'd also love good Markdown support – that's one of my most-wanted features from Evernote in the first place.

irrational 8y ago
So, you feel search in Evernote is good? Personally I've found it severely lacking. I can't tell you how many times I've searched for something that I know is there (and that I do find after manually looking for it), but search comes up empty.
- the6threplicant 8y ago
  I think you have found most people's problems, not just with Evernote, but with all other clipping services: it's write often, read once (if at all).
- icc97 8y ago
  Yeah I prefer ripgrep with a bunch of markdown files.
- saidajigumi 8y ago
  That's interesting, and absolutely not my experience. Search has been robust, finds what I need, and absolutely worth having. Might be worth a support request -- maybe there's some undetected lossage in your account's search indices and they need a rebuild. (Or maybe you can kick that off self-service?)
icc97 8y ago
> Note syncing, mobile and desktop. This gets a bit harder. The dropbox text editor works 'ok'. It's not great, but it's clean enough that I can edit my markdown notes and they'll be synced with dropbox.

irrational 8y ago

What vim plugin do you use?

icc97 8y ago
https://github.com/euclio/vim-markdown-composer https://github.com/euclio/vim-markdown-composer Requires a rust compile of the code in the plugin, but once that's working it works well.