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Ask HN: Personal knowledge management/note-taking: How do you do it?
The idea of having a note-taking system that can support one in any context and for any duration of time, almost as a second brain seems quite popular.
FOr instance, the Zettelkasten methodology is quite frequently cited. However, most note-taking systems I saw so far are either too simplistic (missing support for embedded images, tables, easy linking between notes, ...), are only designed for input but not recall (i.e. plan text, monospace input and one needs to render the output for it to be readable), or only work online (e.g. Roam).
So, I was wondering what HN uses for full-fledged personal knowledge management
- zuul 7y agoHave you tired https://joplinapp.org/ https://joplinapp.org/ ?
- Madaray 7y agoI like notion : https://www.notion.so/ https://www.notion.so/
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- PaulHoule 7y agoI worked at a startup where it seemed every week we tried out some new SAAS tool (Slack, JIRA, ...) because we had the problem that nobody could find anything. Of course adding another SAAS tool just makes it harder to find things, so the disease feeds itself. I think the first step of this kind of system is being able to suck in data from other places (email, web history, document folders, ...) and search for content. At that point you might get away with just taking notes with whatever text editor or word processor you like (it is very easy to work with docx documents) or build a special note-taking system oriented around "annotate everything". One 'brain extension' ability I find quite useful are systems that can break work into small chunks and manage their workflow.
- lampe3 7y agoI use https://roamresearch.com https://roamresearch.com it is like notion but without a note limit