note-taking 2

I take notes as I read or listen to books. Here are the notes. They’re mostly in Markdown. They’re meant for me. They may not be as clear to you. They’re often written on a mobile while I walk. They may have spelling mistakes.

I maintain my (extensive) notes in text files. I’ve explored Evernote, Onenote, Google Keep, Apple Notes, and many other platforms. But text files work. I store them as Markdown and sync them on DropBox. They used to be relatively large files (50-100KB) each, on broad topics. For example: todo.txt was a consolidated list of things I had to do people.txt was a list of everything I knew about people (addresses, birthdays, etc) towrite.txt was a list of everything I wanted to write about notes.txt was where I tracked notes about any topics … and more This led to a couple of problems. ...