I have an idea – bang! – a few keystrokes and it’s stored. I don’t want to run a huge program to write a few words. Pictures and diagrams, although still useful, need to be additionally described, if you want to look for something they show. Text files are search-friendly – you may look for files containing specific words or phrases. Does it make sense to store notes you can’t find? So the searchability is the crucial factor of the whole note-taking system. Plaintext is easy to searchīecause my notes are addressed to myself from the future, I would like to be able to find them exactly when I need them. It turned out that the best option for me is to keep notes in plaintext. Geared with the knowledge why I take notes, I can define my needs and check if the specific approach, app or service works for me. Each note is a piece of information addressed to somebody, including your future self. If you find interesting information, you’ll store them hoping it’ll be useful in the future.If you write a journal, you expect that information you log might be helpful someday.If you take notes from the lecture, you’ll want to learn from them later.If you write note that you’ll need to buy milk tomorrow, it’s a reminder for tomorrow’s self.In general, we take notes to make the information available for our future self. But why do we do this? I assume, that the common reason is “ To remember X”. Most of the people take notes – on a piece of paper, post-it notes, journals, smartphones, apps and so one. The breakthrough was when I ask myself – why I even want to note this information? I had started to look for my “ why” and it turned out, that I don’t need a fancy app or service to storing notes but a directory called “notes”. I tried to stick to the one app but I had felt the internal resistance to settling in one specific, often a vendor-locked solution. But what the better means?ĭespite the availability and diversity of note-taking solutions on the market, I haven’t found any that would meet my expectations. ![]() For most people, keeping notes and other stuff in text files is ridiculous – tons of services and apps could do it better.
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