My go to way of taking notes is sending messages to myself. Previously with Signal’s “Note to self” and now with my own channel with Element. It is fast way of taking notes, but horrible in long run since you cannot group notes or add tags or anything else that you would expect from good note taking tool. I have Nextcloud notes, but I still do it since I am used to it and it is fast way of syncing notes with mobile and PC. Anyone else has interesting ways of keeping notes?

  • lukaro@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    I use Google keep for stuff like that. Available everywhere I have a connection.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    18 hours ago

    yea i use discord for getting stuff from my phone to my PC. I keep all my notes in obisidan but I could never get it to sync right and it has since stopped working on my phone altogether.

  • Helluh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    I use Simplenote for all my notes, tags, markup, syncs between all my devices. I really enjoy it!

    • noseatbelt@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      Yeah my husband does this to me too. One time he was camping and texted me just a person’s name with no other context. Like are you about to be murdered and this is the main suspect??

    • 7355608@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Her second, extra, brain? Makes sense to me. Also it’s written down in a place they will probably be ing seeing an above average amount of the time.

  • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    Note taking app isn’t accessible on every device like email so I get it

  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    For quick notes I use unsaved Notepad++ whenever on Windows, and random text files on desktop on Linux made with KWrite.

    For more organized notes I use self-hosted MediaWiki instance.

  • comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Better yet: Send messages to random people in your contact list who have no clue what you‘re talking about. That way you can even categorize your notes by importance.

  • Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Ohh, I definitely prefer to send myself a text, especially since I can schedule it to send when I need a reminder at a specific time for something.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I too use Signal’s Note to Self like this, and I save links by sharing them with Standard Notes. That’s about 90% of all my notes right there.

    • Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I believe all messaging apps need a note to self option, make it be possible to enable from settings. I keep wanting to tell people to use note to self instead of randomly sending me stuff, but then I remember it’s a signal only thing.

  • BurgerBaron@piefed.caEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Like OP used to I use Signal Note to Self. It’s handy moving stuff from mobile to desktop and the reverse as well.

    Joplin for long term stuff. Both are backed up to my NAS / password protected 7z archives to Cloud automated by said NAS.

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    More people need to check out Notesnook. It’s FOSS, cross-platform, powerful, and has a sync server that can be self-hosted.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I recently did a project.

    Self-hosted Ntfy as communication, python bot in a container. If you say remember something It drops it into a text file verbatim. If you say remind me, It loads the text file into an ollama AI RAG and queries it with whatever you asked it to remind you. At the moment it can take a good 5 seconds to get back to you.

    Then I added a grocery list and a separate bot that handles scheduling reminders. Remind me in 20 minutes to feed the dog. Forget this item. Remind me on the 20th of every April that it’s fu’s birthday.

    At the moment, it’s based on keywords and if you don’t specify a keyword it just asks the model directly. I’m thinking about having it send all requests through the model and giving the model a prompt that has a determines what you’re trying to do and translates that to a keyword that the bot can act on.

  • Liam Mayfair@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago

    I was using the Signal “notes to self” too when taking notes during talks and conferences. Taking quick pictures of the slides in context was also a key thing for me. Exporting these unstructured notes into a useful notes archive is a pain as you say, especially if there is media too.

    I caught myself doing this so often that I ended up building myself an app for this specific workflow. It’s rather simple, just an MVP if you will, but it works well for me. Taking notes works exactly like Signal’s “note to self” but it has some QoL stuff on top of that like separate notebooks and exporting notes and pictures to a single PDF archive. I can then import the PDF archive into Notion, which is my main notes repository. Notion can now parse PDF files and import them as regular Notion pages, which closes the loop for me rather nicely. YMMV ofc

    I haven’t published it to any app stores yet (might do in the future) but the source code is available here if you’re technically savvy and happy to build and install it yourself.