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Not OP, but I have a 1,000 high quality notes, so I feel a little qualified to talk about this. 1. Emacs + Org mode & Org Roam. 2. All my notes are synced in
by AJRF 6y ago
Not OP, but I have a 1,000 high quality notes, so I feel a little qualified to talk about this.
1. Emacs + Org mode & Org Roam.
2. All my notes are synced in Dropbox so I can use the beorg app on iOS.
3. Any time I need a note (be that to look for one or create one) I have a shortcut, Cmd + N and I start typing a topic (Health, Xcode, Java, etc). If i've found a match it shows up in a list, if there is no match there is a prompt to create a new note. I don't care about overlapping notes because;
4. Search over notes by pressing Cmd+F. This starts a fzf search over the notes. If I see multiple notes on the same topic I can link them using org-roam references, consolidate them if they are similar enough, or if I don't care just leave it as is.
People always commend me on my astounding memory. It's all down to org-mode.
- canoebuilder 6y agoWhat code do you have C-N bound to? A public package, or something custom you've written? Is it just searching file names?
- AJRF 6y agoit a keyboard shortcut for org-roam-find-file. (global-set-key (kbd "M-n") 'org-roam-find-file)
- canoebuilder 6y agoThanks
- nomad225 6y agoThat sounds like an interesting system. I've been trying to get into using org more often, and so far i've figured out journaling and using org for creating nicely formatted PDFs via LaTeX. But I haven't had much luck getting into taking general notes about topics using org so far. Do you follow any sort of structure inside of the individual topic notes, or is it more freestyle?
- AJRF 6y agoWell just what org affords me headers and subheaders really. Links to other files by typing [[ then it autocompleted what I start typing. Structure is a time sink with a poor pay off in my opinion, good search and a bit of good old wetware memory about what you’ve got in there does me fine. I might be unique in being able to remember generally what’s in my notes. I know some people do Anki style cards with org roam but that’s not for me.