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I think taking notes to remember important things is just in our nature. I have yet to find a piece of note taking software that will prevent my opening up a do

I think taking notes to remember important things is just in our nature. I have yet to find a piece of note taking software that will prevent my opening up a dozen Notepad instances and leaving them open (unsaved) for all eternity... I take notes to remember TODOs, to draft communication, to write random crap I want to come back to. Sometimes I don't even come back to it, but somehow writing it down still helps. I started using Obsidian which has been nice, but feels a bit clunky in a lot of ways on Windows...I'm hoping to find something more lightweight.

srmarm 5y ago
Absolutely, in 20 odd years my muscle memory still opens notepad and the only thing I would love is some kind of autosave/persistence across devices as I always have a dread when occasionally I lose stuff on a crash or something. However when I think about it this may be why notepad still works for me, it doesn't become overwhelming. I've tried to use quite a few systems over the years and the trajectory is always the same - it starts great but the unresolved tasks accumulate until the whole thing seems inefficient or pointless or just overwhelming. In a round about Notepad along with occasional data loss solves that problem for me :D
- drakonka 5y ago
  After leaving my comment a few days ago I was reminded of a web-based note taking system I remembered using years ago called Workflowy, so I went back and checked it out. I learned that they now have a desktop app and it provides a very simple, lightweight workflow for jotting down notes. It feels less bulky than Obsidian and more manageable than the Notepad windows. In fact, right now I only have two Notepad instances open instead of my usual 10 or 15, which maybe is saying something... We'll see if I stick with it for more than a few days.

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I think taking notes to remember important things is just in our nature. I have yet to find a piece of note taking software that will prevent my opening up a do

by drakonka 5y ago

srmarm 5y ago
Absolutely, in 20 odd years my muscle memory still opens notepad and the only thing I would love is some kind of autosave/persistence across devices as I always have a dread when occasionally I lose stuff on a crash or something. However when I think about it this may be why notepad still works for me, it doesn't become overwhelming. I've tried to use quite a few systems over the years and the trajectory is always the same - it starts great but the unresolved tasks accumulate until the whole thing seems inefficient or pointless or just overwhelming. In a round about Notepad along with occasional data loss solves that problem for me :D
- drakonka 5y ago
  After leaving my comment a few days ago I was reminded of a web-based note taking system I remembered using years ago called Workflowy, so I went back and checked it out. I learned that they now have a desktop app and it provides a very simple, lightweight workflow for jotting down notes. It feels less bulky than Obsidian and more manageable than the Notepad windows. In fact, right now I only have two Notepad instances open instead of my usual 10 or 15, which maybe is saying something... We'll see if I stick with it for more than a few days.