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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by vladvasiliu on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:12AM (#36147786)
I kinda agree with your point, and hate spending time organizing or following some "system" for my notes. Search is great, and is the thing that almost killed my paper notebook.

However, one feature I would really love to have but never seen, is a combined todo - notes app.

I often jot down notes as in "things to note / remember", but also, in the same flow, I'd note thinks I'd need to do. I would love to be able to gather those automatically in a view, and be able to see them as done when I revisit the initial note after marking them as such from the "todo view".

The closest I've seen was some VimWiki, but I've found that fairly unwieldy (though I love the idea of taking notes in vim).

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by pillefitz on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:16AM (#36147803)
You can do that with Obsidian. Also, the DataView plugin allows you to run arbitrary queries over your notes to create new views
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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by SpaghettiX on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:38AM (#36148178)
I tried doing that (I pay for Obsidian Sync, and have a lot of plugins so I run only the bare minimum plugins I need on mobile), but app start time and syncing time on mobile makes this quite a bad experience. Instead, when I need to write something quickly, I create a temporary Google Keep note.

When I'm back at my laptop, I merge it into my Obsidian Vault.

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by punkspider on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:51AM (#36148250)
Damn. That is my process exactly.
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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by DirkH on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:27PM (#36156134)
I recommend LogSeq with Syncthing for your use case.

I'm using that right now for both TODO and notetaking. I have syncthing set up so that it syncs my vault across 3 devices (including my phone). Very easy to set up (tho admittedly also easy to mess up the set up process). Have had minor hiccups the past 5 months but nothing that would make me want to stop using this setup.

All this is free. I feel like I've found a gold mine that nobody else seems to know about.

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by SpaghettiX on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:25PM (#36157552)
I've heard of syncthing a few times. I'm trying it now on Android + macOS, seems to work well.

What do you like about LogSeq?

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by satran on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:00AM (#36147995)
Orgmode does that.
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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by vladvasiliu on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:56AM (#36148281)
Do you know whether the vim adaptation does that?

I don't feel like learning emacs and trying to shoehorn vim mode (evil?) into it (vim-style editing is much too ingrained in my text-editing muscle-memory).

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by pluijzer on Thursday June 01, 2023 @04:12AM (#36148656)
I understand that you do not want to leave your prefered editor but just wanted to sya that enabling Vim key-bindings with evil is a one line configuration. After that is feels native. I would not call it shoehorning at all.
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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by inferense on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:13AM (#36148351)
take a look at https://acreom.com
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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by shukon on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:29AM (#36148443)
Joplin + https://github.com/CalebJohn/joplin-inline-todo#readme works like that, if you are looking for open source.
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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by sharts on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:44AM (#36148503)
> However, one feature I would really love to have but never seen, is a combined todo - notes app

TickTick comes to mind.

Then again, "notes" mean different things to different people.

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by 9dev on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:44AM (#36148509)
Apple Reminders checks that mark for me!
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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by marcinignac on Thursday June 01, 2023 @04:47AM (#36148806)
If you are on mac/ios then https://noteplan.co/ is exactly that: notes + todos + calendar. I use it daily.
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