New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What do you use to jot down random thoughts and ideas at any time/place?
Ask HN: What do you use to jot down random thoughts and ideas at any time/place?
7 by Razengan | 14 comments on Hacker News.
Preferably a cross platform app. Back when I lived on only one computer at a time, I used Microsoft OneNote. It worked real well until I realized the pitfalls of proprietary software and formats, and sure enough, I was bitten by them when I found I couldn't access any of my old notes files on the Mac version. My next favorite was Ulysses [0] because of its drawer/shoebox UI and the plaintext Markdown format, but since they moved to a dumb (IMO) subscription model, the deprecated paid version has been mysteriously or coincidentally becoming too buggy for me on newer macOS versions. I'm looking for something that basically just puts a pretty interface around a folder hierarchy of plaintext (and possibly image/sound) files, and is compatible with any cloud storage providers (iCloud Drive, Dropbox etc.) so that macOS-only will be enough if it saves in regular plaintext, but ideally it would also have iOS [+Android/Windows] versions. I'm currently looking at Quiver [1], and would like to see what HN uses. [0] https://ulyssesapp.com [1] http://ift.tt/1gSVS0I
7 by Razengan | 14 comments on Hacker News.
Preferably a cross platform app. Back when I lived on only one computer at a time, I used Microsoft OneNote. It worked real well until I realized the pitfalls of proprietary software and formats, and sure enough, I was bitten by them when I found I couldn't access any of my old notes files on the Mac version. My next favorite was Ulysses [0] because of its drawer/shoebox UI and the plaintext Markdown format, but since they moved to a dumb (IMO) subscription model, the deprecated paid version has been mysteriously or coincidentally becoming too buggy for me on newer macOS versions. I'm looking for something that basically just puts a pretty interface around a folder hierarchy of plaintext (and possibly image/sound) files, and is compatible with any cloud storage providers (iCloud Drive, Dropbox etc.) so that macOS-only will be enough if it saves in regular plaintext, but ideally it would also have iOS [+Android/Windows] versions. I'm currently looking at Quiver [1], and would like to see what HN uses. [0] https://ulyssesapp.com [1] http://ift.tt/1gSVS0I
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