The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications

Posted Feb 15, 2007 9:20 UTC (Thu) by macc (subscriber, #510)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications by flewellyn
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications

OK you've got the cat by the tail
and how do you organise this?

Imho the core requirement is that all information has
to go through one chanel.

For a couple of years i have used my eMail client
for taking notes.
Anything noteworthy gets written into an email to
myself. Changes updates go as replies to myself.
It is easy to annotate received eMails and if you
are traveling send an SMS to your eMail account.

Everything in one place.

G!
macc

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The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications

Posted Feb 15, 2007 10:31 UTC (Thu) by stijn (subscriber, #570) [Link]

I have an alias 'b' which expands to "vim -c 'set paste' $HOME/someplace/FILE". Making a note either by typing or pasting is a one-second affair. The file is searchable and greppable, and by now a treasure-log spanning a few years, measuring just over 200K. And I guess I don't travel that much.

The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications

Posted Feb 15, 2007 14:48 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

See also gnus's nntodo.el and nndiary.el backends (for keeping todo lists and timed-expiry diaries, respectively).

Obviously both support searching, filtering and so on, persistently via nnkiboze and nnvirtual groups, and nonpersistently (but this support comes for free from Gnus itself).