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I believe I shared this once before. After twenty years of trying every possible note taking app from Word 95 to Notion, this is now the entirety of my note tak
by hliyan 6y ago
I believe I shared this once before. After twenty years of trying every possible note taking app from Word 95 to Notion, this is now the entirety of my note taking app:
#!/bin/bash
read text
_date=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
echo -e "\n$_date: $text" >> ~/Dropbox/notes/stream.txt
- kostarelo 6y agoSo you only take notes while on your actual computer. You never take notes besides when you are on your computer.
- hliyan 6y agoI usually use a paper notebook when I'm away from my computer. But if I really want to take a digital note, I can do so. Notice that the text file is synced to Dropbox. I can open it using the Dropbox mobile app, scroll to the bottom and add a manual entry. But obviously, it's not as fast as a command line entry.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoThis can also work on mobile if you SSH into a cloud VM for example.
- b3kart 6y agoI’ve set-up an iPhone’s Shortcuts workflow which basically replicates the shell script above. Works very well. Reading on mobile is a bit painful, but doable, and I mostly do it at a computer anyway.