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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I too use Signal’s Note to Self like this, and I save links by sharing them with Standard Notes. That’s about 90% of all my notes right there.
I believe all messaging apps need a note to self option, make it be possible to enable from settings. I keep wanting to tell people to use note to self instead of randomly sending me stuff, but then I remember it’s a signal only thing.
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.
I’ve been using JTx board myself, but still have some things going into goggles notes which I can’t put my finger on why
This is worth a look - thanks!
Wtf. So many people doing this. Thought I was the only one. It all started when I decided to start relying less on Google.
Like OP used to I use Signal Note to Self. It’s handy moving stuff from mobile to desktop and the reverse as well.
Joplin for long term stuff. Both are backed up to my NAS / password protected 7z archives to Cloud automated by said NAS.
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.
Ohh, I definitely prefer to send myself a text, especially since I can schedule it to send when I need a reminder at a specific time for something.
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.
I recently did a project.
Self-hosted Ntfy as communication, python bot in a container. If you say remember something It drops it into a text file verbatim. If you say remind me, It loads the text file into an ollama AI RAG and queries it with whatever you asked it to remind you. At the moment it can take a good 5 seconds to get back to you.
Then I added a grocery list and a separate bot that handles scheduling reminders. Remind me in 20 minutes to feed the dog. Forget this item. Remind me on the 20th of every April that it’s fu’s birthday.
At the moment, it’s based on keywords and if you don’t specify a keyword it just asks the model directly. I’m thinking about having it send all requests through the model and giving the model a prompt that has a determines what you’re trying to do and translates that to a keyword that the bot can act on.
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.
I use Google keep for stuff like that. Available everywhere I have a connection.
yea i use discord for getting stuff from my phone to my PC. I keep all my notes in obisidan but I could never get it to sync right and it has since stopped working on my phone altogether.
Note taking app isn’t accessible on every device like email so I get it
Previously I used pushbullet but now signal note to self
I think my way is far worse: I write in an unsynced plain text note app on my phone, and then when I need it on my computer, Share > KDE Connect > copy & paste into a text editor.
(I gave Joplin a quick try but didn’t like the non-WYSIWYG-ness on the phone.)
My wife does this, except she sends the messages to me
Yeah my husband does this to me too. One time he was camping and texted me just a person’s name with no other context. Like are you about to be murdered and this is the main suspect??
I do this to my gf, the world is truly balanced
This is how my wife operates too.
Her second, extra, brain? Makes sense to me. Also it’s written down in a place they will probably be
ingseeing an above average amount of the time.
