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This is an area that I'm keenly interested in. I desperately want to capture more information about my life both for posterity but also as a power-assist tool

This is an area that I'm keenly interested in. I desperately want to capture more information about my life both for posterity but also as a power-assist tool for my normal work/life. I have noticed that many of the solutions here do not really translate well into cell phone use. Most of my life is not spent in front of my own computer. Even though I spend a lot of time at a work computer, it is heavily restricted (defense industry) and thus can't be used for personal projects. Anything I use has to work with my cellphone as a 1st class capture interface. In my case, I recently decided that I since I am a heavy user of wikipedia, I should just use mediawiki. I'm used to it and it is well supported. The syntax isn't great but it has great API support. They have a decent cell phone interface, though I find that it isn't fast enough for taking notes. So I take quick notes in Evernote and move them into the wiki when I'm at my home PC. It's working okay so far. I need to put more effort into my workflow. I want to have an automated infrastructure for capturing my various data from social networks, email, calendars, things like that. Side note: I can't believe we are coasting into the year 2020 and copy/paste is still so friggin bad on my cell phone. Android has had copy/paste from text entry fields for a long time, but I still can't copy text out of most apps. WHY??? Case in point: YouTube descriptions and comments.

mackrevinack 7y ago
have you ever tried using an outliner such as Dynalist? im not familiar with mediawiki but i used Evernote for a long while. once I found out about dynslist i moved everything over in the space of a few days, even though it didn't have support for in-line images which I used a lot. the speed at which you can jot down notes made me not care about other missing features. the other benefit of an outliner is that you don't have to worry about things getting unorganised. everything is a bullet point but you can also nest points under each other and then collapse the list or zoom in to focus on a certain point. with a single page like in Evernote there is only so much you can write before things gets messy. if you want to reorder something it means you can to cut and paste whereas with dynalist you just drag and drop the bulletpoint heres the full feature list https://dynalist.io/features/full https://dynalist.io/features/full or check out the showcase section in the forum to see what other people are using it for

mackrevinack 7y ago

have you ever tried using an outliner such as Dynalist? im not familiar with mediawiki but i used Evernote for a long while. once I found out about dynslist i moved everything over in the space of a few days, even though it didn't have support for in-line images which I used a lot. the speed at which you can jot down notes made me not care about other missing features. the other benefit of an outliner is that you don't have to worry about things getting unorganised. everything is a bullet point but you can also nest points under each other and then collapse the list or zoom in to focus on a certain point. with a single page like in Evernote there is only so much you can write before things gets messy. if you want to reorder something it means you can to cut and paste whereas with dynalist you just drag and drop the bulletpoint heres the full feature list https://dynalist.io/features/full https://dynalist.io/features/full or check out the showcase section in the forum to see what other people are using it for