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 guico on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @10:39PM (#36147009)

Writing something down in order to lose that “weight” is indeed the main goal of note-taking.

But most apps make this surprisingly hard… you first need to figure out if you should create a new note or append to an existing one. If new note, then in which folder? If existing note, then which one?

It’s too much mental burden when all you want ia jot something down and be sure you’ll find it later.

I made an app that’s great at this, just this. It’s basically an infinite page where you write everything down, in one continuous stream. Then it has some basic tagging and search so you can find stuff again.

Feel free to try if interested: PaperRoll.app

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by jtlicardo on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:27AM (#36147859)

> But most apps make this surprisingly hard...

Not sure about other apps, but Google Keep makes it pretty damn simple and efficient

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by guico on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:50AM (#36148245)

Was rather referring to “knowledge base” apps mentioned in this thread like like Notion, Obsidian, Logsec, Roam, etc.

Keep is quite simple as Is Apple Notes. But these, at least for me, become chaotic quite fast unless I’m very disciplined (and sooner or later there’s a day in which I’m not)

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