Ask HN: What App or Service Do You Use for Journaling and Note Taking?

vscode with https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pajoma.v... and https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Gruntfug...

It stuck because it's just markdown, vscode is always open and it syncs to plaintext in dropbox so is greppable, accessible from basically everything.

A combination of text files that I edit with Emacs or Eclipse depending on what I'm doing, and a self-hosted Mediawiki instance.

For TODO list / task management stuff, I'm actually in the middle of building my own command line task manager tool that maps specifically to the way I like to do things. Once it's a little bit further along, I'll release it as Open Source in case anybody else might find it useful.

Posted this here a few times in response to this q: I use an app that I made myself (http://write.itskrish.co), its defining features being:

1. you choose a fixed duration of time within which to journal (i choose 15 minutes even though it is initially tough to spend all of)

2. if you stop typing for more than a few seconds within the duration, you lose your writing

These constraints basically force me to dump anything and everything on my mind for the sake of continuous typing (to not lose what i've written), and I've been successfully doing it at least 1-2 times a week for a few years now. All your entries are also saved locally in-browser only, with the option to export a savefile. Source code: https://github.com/krrishd/write

Setup a TiddlyWiki instance with Docker several months ago and I'm very happy with it.

Trillium

After trying several tools. I did choose and use Devonthink[1](https://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/overvi...). It is easy, cloud sync, encryption, plugins and is very smart. I can collect all kind of data (web pages, csv, json, formated) and it always fit nicely. Give a try

[1] - https://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/overvi...

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