Ask HN: How do you take notes?

1 points by kxh6 6y ago ↗ HN

First of all what medium do you use (paper, one kind of software, etc)and second what do you write down? Plain text seems to be pretty ineffective compared to mindmaps or scribbled arrows between bullet points, but I'd love to use vim

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Madeindjs 6y ago ↗

Markdown and plaintext files is really perfect. I start writing without formating and then organize later.

Plaintext file is great to copy / paste snippet code (wich is more complicated with handwriting notes ).

Finally for mindmap, Dot graph [1] does job

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_languag...

mel_helland 6y ago ↗

I just started using vim wiki and it's been great - totally revolutionized my workflow! When I make my daily diary markdown file, I write down my TODO list from yesterday, and add one for today... then I jot down some notes as I write code or attend meetings (it's especially nice because I can pop into hyperlinked references easily). Everything I do now feels way more organized, efficient, etc.. 10/10 would recommend. Get started here: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki