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I use a Moleskine and an pen. Works everywhere, never crashes, no dependency on a third party.
by fs111 12y ago
I use a Moleskine and an pen. Works everywhere, never crashes, no dependency on a third party.
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- mike-cardwell 12y agoTwo problems with your solution: No backups in case of loss/theft and having to carry around extra items all the time. I'd rather use a phone to take notes.
- fs111 12y agosure it is not perfect, but whenever I used a digital note taking thing I felt I was using the app to procrastinate rather than doing the real work. It might just be me, but it does not happen with a classical note book + I can scribble in it as well.
- VeejayRampay 12y agoAnd the additional benefit of an overpriced glorified notepad.
- fs111 12y agolet me guess, you wrote that on a Mac.
- jjnoakes 12y agoAnd you can't share it easily with others (unless you are in the same physical place and are willing to lose your copy, or make a backup by hand)
- fs111 12y agothose are my notes, why would I want to share them?
- jjnoakes 12y agoThere's a difference between "I don't want to share some or most of my notes" and "There's just no easy way to share any of my notes, even if I wanted to". If you can't think of a reason why sharing a note might benefit you, you either lead a very solitary life (nothing wrong with that) or you have a very limited imagination (nothing wrong with that either). And even if you were the one-in-a-thousand (or higher) that simply has no need for any single feature of any modern note-taking app, saying "Well chiseling my notes into a rock works for me" really contributes zero to the discussion about the software.
- jjnoakes 12y agoAnd you can't capture images (unless you're a great artist - and even then, it'll be very slow)
- fs111 12y agoI work on backend software. There is no UI or web-interface or whatever. I do almost all my work on the cli, so I really don't have much use for that either.
- jjnoakes 12y agoI see. And if I mention how you can't copy and paste from the CLI to your notes, or back again, you'll probably make up some reason why that isn't something you'd ever want to do either. Good talk. Thanks for contributing your important view point about this software ("I don't need it") to the discussion.
- fs111 12y agoGo outside for some fresh air, son. You really need some.
- jjnoakes 12y agoAnd you can't save audio recordings
- fs111 12y agoI never had a use case for that.
- jjnoakes 12y agoAnd you run out of paper or ink or graphite every once in a while
- fs111 12y agoless often than I run out of battery on my phone.
- jjnoakes 12y agoAnd you can't search them or categorize them easily
- seren 12y agoI tried a few years ago, but I have not solved the problem of quickly finding something that I might have written a few weeks/months ago. And you can't reorder/update quickly your items every week either. Any tips on that ? I would be willing to try again because the feeling of paper and pen is much nicer that a cold and soulless screen.
- jjnoakes 12y agoWhy not keep all of your notes in your head? You get the audio and images (and even video!) for free, searching and sorting are much faster, and you'll never have to buy pen or paper again. And as a bonus, you'll stop polluting all the time (all of those empty pens and pieces of scribbled-on, crumpled-up paper) - when you die, your notes will just vanish with you. Sounds like I just saved you a ton of money and time, and my advice can help you save the planet a little too. Switch today!
- fs111 12y agoah come one, you can do better than that. Trolling is a art, not this lame attempt you are showing here...