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The best note app I found is a journal app. I’ve been using Day One for more than a year now, and it’s holding Evernote’s promise of remembering everything. I
by mercacona 6y ago
The best note app I found is a journal app. I’ve been using Day One for more than a year now, and it’s holding Evernote’s promise of remembering everything.
I do use Apple Notes too beside Day One for temp notes (email drafting, edit texts, links to check & trash, etc), but it’s on my journals where my knowledge-notes reside.
What people like from real notebooks is that you don’t have to think about organization, you just start a note in the next blank page. With Day One that’s what I got (even by email), and then, once I need to search for something in my personal log, I can organize stuff with tags or backlinking notes.
The “On this day” function also helps, as you can prune old ideas or notes that were a dead-end.
Personally, I’m sold.
- biddlesby 6y agoTotally agree. Having to think about how I need to organise my thoughts as the same time as coming up with the thoughts themselves always seems like a burden!
- cborenstein 6y agoVery much agree with this. The idea of separating the "dump" phase from the "organize" or "refine" phase has been an inspiration for what we're building at Bytebase: https://medium.com/@bytebase/an-iterative-approach-to-notes-f1c2a28c4d29 https://medium.com/@bytebase/an-iterative-approach-to-notes-....
- andi999 6y agoWhat i like about real notebooks is the 'flicking through'search function.
- abhiyerra 6y agoI am also an avid DayOne user. It is great. My process is to have three journals in DayOne Todo, Done and Workouts. Every time I have an idea I write it down in the Todo journal. Once a week I do a GTD on that notebook. Any actionable tasks if it follows the two minute rule I do immediately or if it a longer task I move to the context specific locations in Notion, GitHub, Gmail Tasks, the CRM, org-mode, etc. so I can get them done when I am doing my context specific tasks (project management, coding, email, sales, knowledge base, etc.) then I then move the entry to the Done Journal. Yes, it is a lot of processing things twice but I think it has some benefits. Most things aren’t actionable so it is just great for refreshing my memory. It forces me to write everything I think of down so I don’t forget anything and DayOne is great for that. I have nearly 10,000 entries. I don’t worry about note size. Some are “send contract to Ashley” others are longer thought out ideas. I’ve been using this system for the last few years and it has worked well. One size fits all note apps never worked for me and I figured the reason for that is that a lot of what we do are context specific. We want the notes / todos for a particular type of task to live where we do the task when we are doing the task.