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?
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unsent emails kept in the gmail drafts folder allows syncing notes across devices, and its searchable
i use Google Keep, pretty handy so I can pate the notes while on my phone, then edit via the PC’s browser.
More people need to check out Notesnook. It’s FOSS, cross-platform, powerful, and has a sync server that can be self-hosted.
No thanks. I’ll just keep emailing myself.
Like a boss.
I am so in love with Notesnook. It’s been about a week and I fell hard. Great UI. Encrypted. Cross platform. Loads quickly. I wish markdown was native and not a shortcut though.
I’ve been using JTx board myself, but still have some things going into goggles notes which I can’t put my finger on why
This is worth a look - thanks!
Signal is great for this. Ive written whole chapters this way.
I’m all about Signal’s Note to Self.
Came here to post that. Such a damn convenient way to send notes and links between my phone and desktop.
If you are interested try Localsend, its even less effort than sharing via a messenger and its peer to peer. You can enable auto downloads for trusted peers then it will be sent directly to a folder of your choice once you send from your phone.
Fantastic for that purpose.
I hate that it doesn’t send a notification though. I used the delay send feature on Textra for reminders but since switching to Signal it’s useless for that. I just want to send myself a message delayed by a few hours and get a notification when it sends. Only thing missing is the notification.
Had a manager who used to send notes intended for himself to our team chat. Psychotic behaviour.
Every phone has a note app. No matter how stupid you are, it works. But if messages to yourself floats your boat: why not.
It’s helpful for me. It’s just a raw stream of thoughts and ideas. Most don’t go anywhere but it’s a good first stop to get an idea out of my head. Even if it turns out to be stupid I can read it later and react accordingly.
Previously I used pushbullet but now signal note to self
I do. Also messages for the feds.
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.
Fuck yeah, my text app has a built in “Keep” contact. That bitch is loaded with messages.
i send messages to myself when i need to get a link/image from my phone to my pc or vice versa
Wtf. So many people doing this. Thought I was the only one. It all started when I decided to start relying less on Google.
My dumb ass never knew signal had notes to self
Same. Might as well start doing this since no one is sending me secrets launch codes. I feel so alone 😔
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I think my way is far worse: I write in an unsynced plain text note app on my phone, and then when I need it on my computer, Share > KDE Connect > copy & paste into a text editor.
(I gave Joplin a quick try but didn’t like the non-WYSIWYG-ness on the phone.)
heh
My Matrix-channel for this purpose is called “scratchpad” - and I use it for short-lived information I need to be able to access from all devices. Notes that are supposed to live longer and/or be shared with others go into Nextcloud.
We are the same.
