Zim is a notepad like desktop application that is inspired by the way people use wikis.
The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!
An Effortless PKM System.
Posce (pronounced posh·ee) is a note-taking toolkit for your command line. It takes a single directory of plaintext note files and lets you create, edit, manipulate, and organise them to your heart's content; all in a single unified interface.
I long ago stopped reading books on note-taking.
They were always too vague and boring, full of platitudes that had little to do with the world outside academia.
I especially avoided “how-to” style books on the subject.
They would often list dozens of tips and tricks that had little to do with each other. There was never an overarching system for turning notes into concrete results.
But recently I picked up How To Take Smart Notes (affiliate link) by Sönke Ahrens. Ahrens is a Lecturer in Philosophy of Education at the University of Duisburg-Essen and also coaches students, academics, and professionals with a focus on time management, decision-making, and personal growth.
dn is a simple command line tool to help keep notes on what you did every day and what's coming up.
dn writes a bullet-pointed string to a file with today's date in YYYY-MM-DD format in the ~/dn/ folder.
Argdown is a simple syntax for complex argumentation. Writing pro & contra lists in Argdown is as simple as writing a twitter message, but you can also use it to logically reconstruct whole debates and visualize them as argument maps.
Refined Evernote desktop app
To make note taking using LaTeX viable, I had four goals in mind:
- Writing text and mathematical formulas in LaTeX should be as fast as the lecturer writing on a blackboard: no delay is acceptable.
- Drawing figures should be almost as fast as the lecturer.
- Managing notes, i.e. adding a note, compiling all my notes, compiling the last two lectures, searching in notes, etc. should be easy and quick.
- Annotating pdf documents using LaTeX should be possible for when I want to write notes alongside a pdf document.
This blog post will focus on the first item: writing LaTeX.
Otter is a smart note-taking app that empowers you to remember, search, and share your voice conversations. Otter creates smart voice notes that combine audio, transcription, speaker identification, inline photos, and key phrases. It helps business people, journalists, and students to be more focused, collaborative, and efficient in meetings, interviews, lectures, and wherever important conversations happen.
- Live markdown editing: Laverna has a simple and robust markdown editor, which can help you write faster than ever before with our live markdown preview.
- Distraction free mode: The editor can be switched to distraction free mode where you can focus solely on writing notes.
- Available anytime and anywhere: Make your notes available on any device with your Dropbox & RemoteStorage account.
- Keep your notes private: You can make your notes available only to you by enabling encryption.
Official site of MyNotex, free note-taking, document file and activity manager for GNU/Linux.
Notes are gathered under different subjects and are made by a title, a date, a tags (keywords) list and a free-length text. This may be formatted: it is possible to change the font name, size and color of a selected text and of its background, and also to set bold, italic, underline and strike-through; the text may have pictures within it. The software can manage paragraph alignment, bullets, numbered and alphabetic lists with automatic indentation. Each note may have any number of attachments (files of every kind), and has also a spreadsheet-like grid to manage a list of activities which is quite similar to the one used in many software of project management. The various activities of one or all the notes of a file may be shown in a diary view and possibly exported in iCal format. A single file of MyNotex contains various notes filed in different subjects.