Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good

Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by dang on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:13PM (#36145098)

Discussed at the time:

Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30344237 - Feb 2022 (158 comments)

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by TomDavey on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:41PM (#36145395)

Thanks for recalling the earlier discussion. It includes testimonials to Emacs org-mode, and to the Zettelkasten package built atop org-mode, org-roam.

Org-mode can't be beat, IMO, if you live in Emacs all day long, as I do.

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by hoosieree on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @09:11PM (#36146536)

One thing I would really like for my notes is some sort of AI or fuzzy thesaurus-aware search, so I can enter a search phrase and get "similar" matches from all my local files, not just "exact" matches like you'd get from grep.

Does such a thing exist in emacs?

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by ChanderG on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @11:20PM (#36147234)

I have also been thinking along these lines, recently. We need better local search tools, ideally without having to build extra indices.

Even a simple para oriented fuzzy search might be a good place to start.

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