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Ask HN: What software do you use to take notes?

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psyc
OneNote, Mac and iOS
altern8tif
Bear
geoah
Tried bear a bit, the lack of syncing do other things than apple cloud is an issue, as well as the lack of web/android clients.
654wak654
Google Keep

http://keep.google.com/

ChristianGeek
Too much risk of them killing it with little warning.
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baldfat
I use it for shopping list with my wife. It is awesome for that one feature.
xemoka
Have you tried wunderlist? My partner and I have a shared shopping list that we both can populate and finish items from—offers a bit more structure and to-do type item features than Keep.
baldfat
I liked wunderlist but we have a different note for each store with a check box. Nothing beats the keep for shopping list for us. Simple and easy
Jtsummers
Emacs with org-mode and git for syncing across my computers.
brianjolney
Personal notes in Evernote but increasingly taking team notes in Dropbox's Paper.
kujenga
Evernote for personal use, Slack messages to myself for work
zulln
How do you organize those 'notes' in Slack?
AdamGibbins
from:@me in:@me some search term here -- I'd imagine.
baali
Org-Mode and Emacs: http://orgmode.org/
funkaster
same here. I keep notes in two-three different files (work, personal, misc) and add todos there. those files are part of the agenda, so I can quickly summarize everything in one place. I also use tags to group tasks.
maliker
Text files stored in Google Drive. Editing with Sublime Text on MacOS, Textastic/Workflow on iOS. Searching via Launchbar and Spotlight.
buster
Zim with some encrypted file sync is a great tool.
ryeon
Pen and Paper
MichaelGG
Bingo. I often can't read what I've written but it's much easier to flow and get ideas out on paper. Theoretically I want to use OneNote but a nice pen and paper wins.
calebio
I write markdown files with emacs.

These notes are stored at `~/notes` which I symlink to `~/Dropbox/notes`.

proaralyst
I do similarly: Vim & reStructured Text.
ateevchopra
Dropbox Paper. Mainly because of non distracting UI and markdown support. Also copy paste keeps the format intact. That comes in handy to copy/paste code in notes.
achompas
Day One for general notes, 2Do for notes on tasks.

(I use Mac and iOS.)

reitanqild
Day One is one of a very few apps I miss from Mac OS X, another being Alarms from Mediaatelier I think although that one disappeared from Mac OS X as well because the API it used was phased out.
hartator
It's interesting that everyone seems to do something different. I wonder why this not a solved issue yet which one best and obvious way.