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I'm really curious about you, my dear personal Mastodon bubble! Today, I want to learn more about your everyday digital patterns. Therefore pretty please, vote + boost:
Which digital note taking app did you use the most, during the last 30 days?
@Lambo Emacs/Org mode (Went from Evernote/Onenote->Obsidian->Orgmode)
@Lambo Joplin for most things here, especially if I value that information's access across systems, desktop and mobile.
Org-mode for project-specific information that stays put, like typical work notes.
Nextcloud Notes (and clients for it) for small notes.
Nextcloud Collectives for bigger collections of information "personal wiki".
@Lambo I’ve been on TiddlyWiki https://tiddlywiki.com/ to maintain notes for projects (work and home) for coming up on two decades. FWIW I am thinking of migrating to something org-mode based.
@Lambo @ralf_weinert Notebooks www.notebooksapp.com for ages now. No encapsulated proprietary database bullshit, books are local or iCloud / Dropbox / WebDAV folders, every file is just a file in these folders and can be read and edited on every platform. Writes mainly .md but also .txt, .rtf, renders PDFs, reads most doc and media formats supported by the OS. Mac and iOS only, no subscription, great support, European product (Austria).
@Lambo Goodnotes and Craft.do.
@Lambo
Craft -bietet mir die Verknüpfung zwischen IPad und Laptop, Handy
@Lambo I take notes in Emacs on my computers and in Orgzly on my phone. Part of my note files are synchronized between the phone and the computers, the full set of files is synchronized between the two computers. The notes are in org-mode format.
@Lambo
FOAM-Extension für VScode/Vscodium. Ist "kompatibel" mit Obsidian (hab ich auf dem Handy, nutz es aber nur selten mit den gesyncten Ordnern).
emacs + org-mode is my daily driver for now taking both at work and home
@Lambo Well, I've blogged exhaustively about that topic. Entry point: https://karl-voit.at/orgmode/
And before you marry yourself to a tool that expects #Markdown as input format: https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/ 😉
HTH
@Lambo emacs, orgmode, denote, orgroam
@Lambo AnyType, recent versions are improving in leaps and bounds https://anytype.io. Also worth keeping an eye on Zettlr and Tangent if you're a fan of Obsidian but want open source. Having said that, Obsidian is outstanding (one of the only proprietary tools I use) so I mostly use it and AnyType (and Zotero) depending on purpose.
@Lambo TickTick. It looks like a Todo app, but it is much, much more.
It is a real second brain and allows you to take notes, organize them, tag them, link them seamlessly with a rock-solid app available on all platforms.
@Lambo
Emacs with org-mode/org-roam. Also Daylio on my phone for personal diaries.
@Lambo
GNU #Emacs and its org-mode - that integrates with so much in Emacs. Well everything.
I take structured notes with attachments, TODOs, calendar events.
I use Emacs to build and maintain websites, including all those integrated notes, TODOs, drafts, planning, and events for my calendar.
Um, what else? ... integration with email through MU4E, literate programming, writing, and more.
In Emacs, everything I fancied doing has always been possible.
@Lambo I use Joplin on all my devices. Client side encrypted, offline first notes, synced via a self hosted WebDAV instance
@Lambo emacs, org-mode, denote
@Lambo
Actually I use Zotero ± Better Notes plugin the most in my current workflow, besides that Joplin and mostly Nextcloud Notes for individual unrelated notes
I also use Zotero and Better Notes plugin but I sync it to Obsidian.
It enables this:
You can use markdown in Zotero, and if you cite something, you create a bibliographic reference.
With Better Notes' sync feature, you set up a folder to sync to, in your Obsidian fault. And then you have a sync control to choose which notes to sync and when.
I also have Zotero integration plugin in Obsidian, clicking a reference brings you back to Zotero, which I find very neat.
@lukask Oh that's clever, never heard about it...
@Lambo I use nkt, my own little terminal note taking and journaling tool:
@Lambo Nextcloud Notes
@Lambo StandardNotes (FOSS)
(Yes, I would have added Joplin if Mastodon would allow for a fifth option)
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