Heavy Evernote paid subscription user here. Why paid? because it indexes images, pdfs, images inside pdf's etc. It has easy integration with a lot of other tools and services, doesn't have a Linux client (for which i blame them) but still i consider it my best option so far.

• One picture of a bookshelf and i have indexed all the titles. (yes, i too use books)
• Whiteboard and mobile taken images of paper are enhanced and readable. I mostly use Camscanner for the image processing on Android (better quality, good pdf export and batch support)
• I index quite a few blog posts, forum answers, Hashnode items, because i have seen too many good ones gone to waste with just a bookmark. plus, bookmarks don't index content and i remember part of the content, not the title.
• references to moving parts (which i don't want to index) still become bookmarks in chrome but many times end up both in chrome and in Evernote. Because chrome allows me to search in the address bar, which still is quicker than switching to another window.

As much as i like evernote over all the other solutions i found so far, it's still far from perfect. Especially the UI and lack of complex search can be a pain. Sometimes it feels like an interconnected and smart notepad++ that simply refuses to take the leap... But hey, combined with the other stuff and the API's nowadays, we just hack our own solutions right?

Complete projects go into dropbox because of the file sync obviously and the use of jetbrains tools for code. (pycharm with markdown support and "live" PlantUML is really nice)

A private Rhodecode server holds a lot of code in both git and mercurial. I check out my repo's in a dropbox (linked) folder so i can continue where i left of, and have an automatic backup.

Project related documentation is in the sourcecode, or on a self-hosted Taiga server. Communication about that, and some snippets move through Flock.

And my latest weapon of mass creation is a Wacom Bamboo Slate. Because i still ended up with a lot of paper notebooks everywhere. Mostly because hand written notes and schema's are just so darn quick compared to everything digital. But i ended up with 20 notebooks and the management of those physical things was getting tedious. Also, that stack of paper notebooks is quite heavy. So i'm trying the slate now, which holds a paper notebook but automagically produces an electronic version. Of course it's synced with my phone and from there i can export to evernote. It has tags support, like writing #tag on paper, so i'm working to see if i can get those to evernote.

Hope this helps.

Have you heard of notion.so?

I used to use "files", initially one markdown file per project. Eventually (when I moved to emacs) .org file.

When I moved to .org - I started writing "notes", "things and URLs" to remember etc. I still do that.

But recently I started to publish them online as my "devnotes". The setup is really simple. I use mkdocs and publish "quick" notes.

These are the things that I would search for online every now and then.

Check this if you are interested.

I also use Google Keep. But that is mostly for "non technical" stuff. An odd address of the hotel, Picture of kid's medicine (better picture than name)

At work: JIRA and Confluence. I write a personal weekly "top 3" on a public confluence page; my team has JIRA boards for task tracking. For things like meeting notes I use textile files (textile because it's easy to transfer to Confluence if I need to) with a work-supplied cloud backup.

Info on how to run up a project, troubleshooting, releasing etc all goes into the readme in the git repo.

Personal stuff: Google Keep; and reference files/code library live in a git repo (would prefer dropbox but that is blocked at work due to some network security policies).

For personal projects - A physical notebook, I'm an oldy too 👴

To really answer your question, I use

1. Notella : For short form notes like lists and quick thoughts - because the best notes app is the app you make yourself 😋

2. Notion For long form planning with a lot of moving parts - you can nest different form of content. Put a page inside a table inside a page

   

3. For dev notes, I use GitHub! - It's near the source + shared with your team

   (I tend to get carried away and write essays in the pull request description ) (Works better if the repo is public, because you don't lose it when you switch jobs)

4. Blog/Youtube - For notes where I need to research a little, I write a blog post or create a video!

   It's great because by writing, you really clarify the thought in your head + you get to share it with others.

   Bonus: It's a great resource for your future self (I can never remember how to debug CI builds, so I just watch my own content 🙈)

I've used a few over the years and really like to have cross-platform support. For me, my current go to is Dropbox Paper . It's great for taking notes, creating lists, assigning due dates, code blocks, and sharing if that's important to you. Plus, it works for me as I switch between my Mac, PC, iPAD, and phone.

I use my notebook too.

But I also have a git repo for every feature, there I can easily create small issues just for myself.

I use Notational Velocity (actually nvALT, it's successor) and also have this integrated with 'QuickQuestion' (available as qq in my terminal), and configured so all notes are formatted in plain text in the same folder, and backed up to a simplenote storage service. In addition to the NV and QQ interfaces to my notes, I tend to keep a sublime text project wired up to that same folder. And simplenote means I can get to these from my phone as well.

I've tinkered with extending this setup with Anki, for topics that I want or need to learn and integrate more thoroughly (Anki = spaced repetition learning).

Beyond these, I've got a mess in Evernote, Pocket, and others. I've been experimenting with voice-recorded (then transcribed) reminders in Google Keep when I'm on the go and cannot type or write my thoughts down.

And I still always rely on a good pen and paper notebook to synthesize my day each morning, or the evening before! :)

I used many different things over the years Depending on the life expectancy of the note and its goal, it nowadays fall in one of 2 categories:

• a snippet I want to organize and be able to share later, something more long-lived: I love Dropbox paper (paper.dropbox.com) it made me move away from Keep and Evernote and things like that. Works well on mobile, awesome on desktop, fast, brilliant
• for anything which is work-in-progress, notes before to clean up and write a real doc, .... I use a 'notes' folder in which I write down markdowns, and open that 'project' in either Atom or VSCode. That 'notes' folder is inside Dropbox so that I can keep my notes on my laptop, desktop, phone... What I like with this approach is that you get the benefits of dropbox, and all the convenient features of your usual tools (key bindings you're familiar with, syntax highlighting, search, whatever

Oh, and pen and paper are still very useful and valuable ;-)

For now I am using a ton of text documents to note various aspect of the project flow, from conception to delivery. I have recently been acquainted with Notion.so and am planning to use it in the future.

Hi Supriya,

I mostly prefer Open Source applications if such are available and for note taking, todos, reminders and web clips I can really recommend a free alternative to Evernote called Joplin (joplin.cozic.net)

It is cross platform and you can use markdown for notes and it can sync notebooks, todos etc to Dropbox, OneDrive, WebDAV and more :)

Best regards

//Jon

I use my own note taking tool called Noteself. It is freely available at noteself.github.io

Hi!

In any operating system, I use mostly Typora for notes so I can sync the notes via Google Drive. I use Google Tasks and Google Kep.

In Linux, I use Indicator Sticky Notes and Xpad for small notes over desktop, so I do not forget of doing what I must. I also tried Joplin, but it is unstable via Arch Linux due to the fault of NodeJS.

In macOS, I use mostly Numi of which I am a contributor of translations and Typora.

In Android, as it does not have Typora, I use Monospace, Scrittor and Writer.

I find interesting HackMD indicated Sandeep Panda and Bootsnote indicated by Ryosuke. I will try them.

I dislike Evernote, because downloading them offline is not free and it does not have a version for Linux. The formatting is limited.

I loved OneNote, because formatting is not limited, but it is not responsive in the mobile phones.

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I use Boostnote and sync it with Dropbox so I can use it across any device that supports it (Win/Mac/Linux). I'm currently building a PWA version of the app so I can also edit on my phone.

I also use Evernote (since it works on iOS) for logging articles / longer form media, and I keep tasks/todos/reminders organized in Trello.

I use the following:

• Apple notes
• HackMD
• Papier Chrome extension

For things that need structured approach I usually use Basecamp and Trello.

In my company, we usually write everything down in git 'issues'. For my personal projects, I use Issues and Google Keep

• Things in the code that still have to be done: I use TODO notes with my name (like // TODO @mverleg which I can insert with a macro. IntelliJ can show a list of just these todo's, without those of other people, and can give a warning before commit.
• Functional changes or note-worthly investigations: issue tracker.
• Notes that aren't useful for others: paper.
• Ideas that don't belong to a project: Remember The Milk (which I also use for tasks and shopping lists).

I tried to use something like Confluence server, but it kept causing issues with JIRA and Bitbucket servers. I really like the ability to "connect" wiki entries to issues and repos, but really needed to find a more accessible way of organizing personal projects, educational notes, etc.

So, I started using OneNote - and it's perfect for categorizing 'bookshelves' of information, and even securing pages. I felt that this was the best option since nothing seems to be hindered by a paywall (like Evernote, for example) - plus OneDrive (5gb) and pretty much a free suite of Office comes with it, too. Mostly everyone also has a Skype account, which is actually a Microsoft account now, so there are no other accounts required either. Just login to OneNote.com with the one you use for Skype, and there you go.

I keep an entire reference guide to Bash CLI that I've written myself, use Pocket as a bookmarking system for articles I don't want to have flood my toolbar of favorites - and, now reference them in OneNote.

And this is coming from a guy that used Notepad++ for everything, a decade ago. :P

Reminders or notes? 😄

For reminders, I have a tool that emails me with an exact list of them on a specific day. E.g. You have to check this or that / create a report today. For a more important thing like a meeting or something similar - I set up a reminder on Google calendar.

I use my notebook on a daily basis to write down a list of things I'm going to do that day.

For docs and instructions for certain tasks that I repeat weekly or monthly, I have a whole document with a checklist on Basecamp - but that's a paid tool. For a free variant, I'd keep docs on Dropbox/Google drive and organize it in different folders.

I'll admit I also use my notebook very heavily, but usually only for personal notes.

When I write my notes for a specific task, I'll use the computer. Also, there is a possibility that I have to share those documents with my co-workers. In that case, I always use Emacs with org-mode.

My documents include:

• project/task specifications
• thoughts on my approach on how to solve such problem
• graphs about the flow of programs or how things are connected together (PlantUML)
• tests of algorithms, sample data even (even connexion to my DB, so I can check the results of my queries right into Emacs and export the results!)
• implementation notes
• deployment notes

Emacs is just a text editor (on steroids) and org mode a plug in. (we call those packages)
So my files are just plain text, which I love, because I grep the hell out of them.
(where did I use that library already? ... grep... haaa, during that project!)

org-mode can export into PDF or HTML.
I use HTML extensively.