My go to way of taking notes is sending messages to myself. Previously with Signal’s “Note to self” and now with my own channel with Element. It is fast way of taking notes, but horrible in long run since you cannot group notes or add tags or anything else that you would expect from good note taking tool. I have Nextcloud notes, but I still do it since I am used to it and it is fast way of syncing notes with mobile and PC. Anyone else has interesting ways of keeping notes?
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Having a number of phone numbers in my private PBX available, I set one as an “audio note” system. I can call that number, there is no prompt but the beep, I can leave a message, and get it in my mail as an mp3.
Note taking app isn’t accessible on every device like email so I get it
I use Simplenote for all my notes, tags, markup, syncs between all my devices. I really enjoy it!
For quick notes I use unsaved Notepad++ whenever on Windows, and random text files on desktop on Linux made with KWrite.
For more organized notes I use self-hosted MediaWiki instance.
I do. Also messages for the feds.
I make group chats with only me as a member to organize by subject.
Note to self got too cluttered, but it continues as my junk drawer for notes.
Note taking apps are a separate stop so i will never use them for quick or temporary work. They’re for long term stuff like recipes and fitness tracking.
Had a manager who used to send notes intended for himself to our team chat. Psychotic behaviour.
Every phone has a note app. No matter how stupid you are, it works. But if messages to yourself floats your boat: why not.
It’s helpful for me. It’s just a raw stream of thoughts and ideas. Most don’t go anywhere but it’s a good first stop to get an idea out of my head. Even if it turns out to be stupid I can read it later and react accordingly.
Previously I used pushbullet but now signal note to self
Fuck yeah, my text app has a built in “Keep” contact. That bitch is loaded with messages.
I’m all about Signal’s Note to Self.
Came here to post that. Such a damn convenient way to send notes and links between my phone and desktop.
If you are interested try Localsend, its even less effort than sharing via a messenger and its peer to peer. You can enable auto downloads for trusted peers then it will be sent directly to a folder of your choice once you send from your phone.
Fantastic for that purpose.
More people need to check out Notesnook. It’s FOSS, cross-platform, powerful, and has a sync server that can be self-hosted.
No thanks. I’ll just keep emailing myself.
Like a boss.
I am so in love with Notesnook. It’s been about a week and I fell hard. Great UI. Encrypted. Cross platform. Loads quickly. I wish markdown was native and not a shortcut though.
Yeah lol. I’ll send myself SMS texts like 10 times a day
Someone needs to get the bright idea of an app that is a notes app designed to function like a messaging app.
You can “message yourself” immediately or set a time delay so that the message comes in after a given amount of time, or at a certain time, or under certain conditions. You can tell messages to repeat until you finally address the contents.
An extra-sinister idea would be an option to set messages to come in like a phone call. Make a message titled BOSS that repeated every morning. That’ll get you up.
There’s a program called Mine on the Google Play store that’s a note taking application designed to look like a social media app (like Twitter/Mastodon).
Looks cool. Somehow it’s not compatible with my device. Galaxy S22.
unsent emails kept in the gmail drafts folder allows syncing notes across devices, and its searchable
Signal is great for this. Ive written whole chapters this way.
