Note Taking
I’m not writting it down for later, I’m writting it down for now.
- Use
Tot
for very simple note taking - Should work and personal notes be maintained in the same environment? Yes.
- nvAlt is good but getting sync issues when running under iCloud; what about good old Git and some commit-trigger magic
TODO: Move all data from nvALT Or … Is there a MD editor which can operate insitue - yes, PreText will, it can seeFiles
in iCloud and / orWorking Copy
’s git repos. I wonder if macOS tags persist across a repo? I should really learn how to use them effecientyly.
Old Notes
- Apple Notes - I have a lot of ‘ideas’ notes in there
- OneNote - use
rik@plancd.com
login some ideas some stuff mainly old though.
On a Mac
On iOS
PreText loks like quite nice, and so does Working Copy.
So Tot
for quick cut-and-paste meeting minutes, ideas etc. But every night eithert deleted or moved to the pretext
file 1..7.md
.
Where To Store Text / Ideas / Notes etc
And what tools to use
Rule: Use Markdown for all but the most complex of data - assuming it isn’t shared.
tot
can be used for bsic data entry as it has quick sync between macOS, iOS and ipadOS. However is isn’t used for large chunks of data, ideallt it should be empty at the end of each day.
You almost want one of the coloured dots to be a list of the days tasks which get created in the morning & is emptyed by end-of-play.
nvALT is a nice place to just drop useful little buts of data but I’m finding that (for me) things get lost over time & useless clutter is easily created.
PreText is anothert nice iOS / iCloud solution for reasonably shortlived files.
Where stuff finaly lives.
I have …/Libaray/Computing/…
, this should be used for general notes on things tech - though it would be nice to be abple to ‘push’ some .md
files to a world visible github repo.
I could possibly use some YAML pre-text to determine if something should be published (& is so, where).
Certainly the master / definitive version of these should be held in Library
, not nvALT, PerText or anythimg else.
Also names such as README.md
aren’t helpful. If it’s about git
, then call the file git.md
.
Notes on how I Take Notes
- Paper notes on a Moleskin
- Initial or transitary notes in
Notes.app
. - Work notes to Confluence or whatever work requires.
- World readable to rikwatson.github.io
- Personal to OneNote.
Format is always GitHib Flavoured Markdown, even if the App used supports formatting.
OLD Notes on how I Take Notes
- Use nvALT for personal (& unshared work) based notes.
- Paper notes on a Moleskin
- Initial or transitary notes in
Notes.app
. - Work notes to Confluence or whatever work requires.
- World readable to rikwatson.github.io
- Personal to OneNote.
Format is always GitHib Flavoured Markdown, even if the App used supports formatting.
Poor Man’s nvALT
# Poor man's NV!
function n {
vim ~/Dropbox/nvALT/$1.md
}
function ns {
ls -c ~/Dropbox/nvALT | grep $1
}