Do you guys believe in jinx?
So the thing is I've been talking to someone for almost two years now. Whenever we stop talking for any reason, whether it's for a few days or even a few months, something strange starts happening in the other person's…
Keeping notes on three devices without the official sync: the routes people take, and where each one bites
The official sync services are not expensive, but plenty of people would rather not add another subscription for what is fundamentally a folder appearing in two places. Having run this without one for about two years,…
Folders, tags, or neither: I have reorganised four times and none of it made any difference
Roughly four years of notes. I have had a deep folder structure, then a flat set of notes with tags, then folders and tags together, then a numbered system I found online. Each reorganisation took a weekend and none of…
How do I write a query that filters notes on a field containing a value, and pulls the tasks from under one specific heading?
I have a few hundred notes with metadata in them, and I want to stop maintaining index pages by hand. Two things I cannot get working with the query plugin: First, filtering on a field that holds several values.…
Can I show images and working links inside a generated table, or does it only render plain text?
I have a query producing a table of notes, a book list, with a cover image path stored as a field in each note. The table renders fine, but the image column shows the path as text rather than the picture. Links stored…
How do I get a template applied automatically when a note is created, rather than remembering to insert it?
I use templates for meeting notes and daily notes, and I insert them by hand every time. Half the time I forget, write the note anyway, and end up with a note missing the metadata all my queries depend on. I would like…
Is there a real way to require a password to open my notes, or is the plugin that asks for one just theatre?
I keep some notes I would rather other people did not read: nothing dramatic, but I share a laptop occasionally and my notes app opens straight into everything. There are plugins that ask for a password before opening a…
iPad and Pencil for lecture notes: which apps actually search my handwriting? Handwriting
Going back to study part time and my lectures are three hours of diagrams I can't type. I already have an iPad and a Pencil, plus a Windows laptop for everything else, which I know is the awkward combination. Budget is…
What do links between notes actually buy you, beyond being a nice idea?
Several note applications make a feature of linking one note to another, and of showing which notes link back. People describe it as transformative and I cannot see past it being a hyperlink. I currently organise with…
I want the dumbest possible notes app that syncs and doesn't want to be my second brain App Question
Every recommendation I get is a knowledge management system with databases and relations, and what I want is to write 'call the plumber back Tuesday' on my phone and see it on my laptop. Android plus Windows. Free or a…
Is there any way to print onto sticky notes a couple of times a day?
I want to print short text or small graphics onto square sticky notes: around five centimetres two or three times a day. Mostly short task lists that I stick somewhere visible and remove when done. They do not need to…
I can't listen and write at the same time: my notes are complete and I remember none of it
Masters student, three two hour lectures a week, and I have been typing something close to a transcript because I am afraid of missing things. It takes the whole lecture plus about four hours a week tidying afterwards,…
Obsidian people: did the plugin rabbit hole ever end, or did you quit and go back to a folder of text files? System / Workflow
Three weeks in and I have installed nineteen plugins, built two dashboards, and written approximately four actual notes. The app is free for personal use and sync is a few dollars a month, so cost isn't the problem the…
Is an AI meeting notetaker worth it when half my calls are on someone else's platform? Meetings
Six to eight calls a day split across three different video platforms depending on whose client it is, and I'm typing notes badly through all of them. The free tiers I've looked at cap you at a few hundred minutes a…
Not what you switched to last month: what have you actually stuck with for two years or more? System / Workflow
Every thread here is somebody three weeks into a new system telling us it changed their life. I want the boring version: the thing you have used continuously for two years or more, through at least one phone change and…
What's free forever and won't hold my notes hostage the day I stop paying? App Question
Burned once already: an app moved features I relied on behind a paid tier, my free account went effectively read only, and the export was technically available and practically useless. I've got about 4,000 notes going…
Android tablet handwriting apps that aren't an afterthought, what are people actually using?
Galaxy Tab with the pen, and every recommendation thread I find is about the iPad. I need to write by hand in meetings, find things again six months later by searching for a word I wrote, and get everything out in a…
Is rewriting my lecture notes afterwards doing anything, or is it just tidy procrastination?
I spend about five hours a week turning scrappy lecture notes into a clean, linked, colour coded second set. It feels productive, the finished pages are lovely, and my exam results have not moved in two years. I keep…
Getting six years of notes out of a workspace app without losing the structure - how bad was it for you? Migration
I've decided to leave, and I have roughly 3,000 pages including a lot of nested pages, a few databases used as simple tables, and about 400 images. The export gives me markdown plus a folder of files, which sounds great…