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I try hard to take notes, but usually end up with a line or two. Maybe this is me, maybe the noise/information ratio of the meetings I am in - I do not know. I

I try hard to take notes, but usually end up with a line or two. Maybe this is me, maybe the noise/information ratio of the meetings I am in - I do not know. I use and like Obsidian but do not have enough substance to make it big. One thing that I really, really miss in Obsidian is the ability to tag blocks. Not only lines, but whole blocks. This would be a fantastic solution for my 2/3/4 lines of notes - I would just go for daily notes and tag the blocks, and automatically merge them in a single page (per tag). I so much would like that that I am considering trying to write a plugin myself.

skelpmargyar 4y ago
I use Obsidian for things that I can't or don't feel like remembering. Whenever I take notes on subjects, I often find myself forgetting the notes I took quickly. I tried different methods, refreshing methods, and more. But I found that by just doing the homework or practice problems I would remember the information for years. I still use Obsidian for a lot of things, journaling, pictures, etc. But not for recording information that if it was really that important to me I would just remember myself.
- BrandoElFollito 4y ago
  I am in the same boat and this is why I have high hopes in tagging as I am more likely to remember a general tag that keywords of notes. I have always relied a lot on memory and on documentation. My approach was that I need to know where to find things rather that always have the information handy. This means that I look-up a lot (I started before the Google era and the relief digital search brings is insane) and end up remembering the really important things. I sometimes find on Stack Overflow my own questions I forgot I asked and now have the same problem :) This is also why I like to follow-up on such questions, enhance answers etc.
aeonik 4y ago
Use Logseq. it supports tagging blocks, and it also supports markdown or org formats. I use org mode as my format and this has the added advantage of allowing all my source code blocks in my notes to be directly executable from emacs. All my notes now also double as a Jupyter-like note books, but for any major language. I can even mix and match languages in a single note file.
- BrandoElFollito 4y ago
  Would you be so kind and give an example of such a tagged block? I had a look at the documentation and only found https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/how%20to%20create%20pages%20in%20logseq?anchor=ls-block-639b5e14-1ed6-4f57-9c62-201323fc649a https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/how%20to%20create%20pages%20i... that does not addresses blocks. EDIT: OK, it seems that tagging a bullet point also encompasses sub-bullets. I will look at how to create a page that gather blocks tagged with a particular tag. Thank you for the pointer!
  - BrandoElFollito 4y ago
    EDIT 2: this is really a good software from the limited tests I did. It is oriented towards bullet points (that from blocks) and match much closer my note taking style.
Tomte 4y ago
Maybe try TiddlyWiki? Your block would be a Tiddler with tags, and if you want to see several blocks together, you can transclude them into a "larger" Tiddler.
- BrandoElFollito 4y ago
  Thank you for the suggestion, but this is already what I have with Obsidian. The problem is that my notes, over say a day, are blocks of unrelated information (personal, work, technical, dev, ...) which in that case would go into a page I would need to look for. What I saw in Logseq (sibling suggestion) is that it works in blocks and sub-blocks that I can tag. I will end with a daily note made of blocks I would have tagged that I would find in an "dynamic" page under the name of the tag.

skelpmargyar 4y ago

I use Obsidian for things that I can't or don't feel like remembering. Whenever I take notes on subjects, I often find myself forgetting the notes I took quickly. I tried different methods, refreshing methods, and more. But I found that by just doing the homework or practice problems I would remember the information for years. I still use Obsidian for a lot of things, journaling, pictures, etc. But not for recording information that if it was really that important to me I would just remember myself.

BrandoElFollito 4y ago
I am in the same boat and this is why I have high hopes in tagging as I am more likely to remember a general tag that keywords of notes. I have always relied a lot on memory and on documentation. My approach was that I need to know where to find things rather that always have the information handy. This means that I look-up a lot (I started before the Google era and the relief digital search brings is insane) and end up remembering the really important things. I sometimes find on Stack Overflow my own questions I forgot I asked and now have the same problem :) This is also why I like to follow-up on such questions, enhance answers etc.

aeonik 4y ago

Use Logseq. it supports tagging blocks, and it also supports markdown or org formats. I use org mode as my format and this has the added advantage of allowing all my source code blocks in my notes to be directly executable from emacs. All my notes now also double as a Jupyter-like note books, but for any major language. I can even mix and match languages in a single note file.

BrandoElFollito 4y ago
Would you be so kind and give an example of such a tagged block? I had a look at the documentation and only found https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/how%20to%20create%20pages%20in%20logseq?anchor=ls-block-639b5e14-1ed6-4f57-9c62-201323fc649a https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/how%20to%20create%20pages%20i... that does not addresses blocks. EDIT: OK, it seems that tagging a bullet point also encompasses sub-bullets. I will look at how to create a page that gather blocks tagged with a particular tag. Thank you for the pointer!
- BrandoElFollito 4y ago
  EDIT 2: this is really a good software from the limited tests I did. It is oriented towards bullet points (that from blocks) and match much closer my note taking style.

Tomte 4y ago

Maybe try TiddlyWiki? Your block would be a Tiddler with tags, and if you want to see several blocks together, you can transclude them into a "larger" Tiddler.

BrandoElFollito 4y ago
Thank you for the suggestion, but this is already what I have with Obsidian. The problem is that my notes, over say a day, are blocks of unrelated information (personal, work, technical, dev, ...) which in that case would go into a page I would need to look for. What I saw in Logseq (sibling suggestion) is that it works in blocks and sub-blocks that I can tag. I will end with a daily note made of blocks I would have tagged that I would find in an "dynamic" page under the name of the tag.