What’s everyone using for notes capture these days? I have so many tabs open on my phone and just want to unload them (but I really still want to watch/save the info somehow), but I don’t want to fall down the Evernote-hole again…

@herself craft.do

@toddgrotenhuis @ohbananajoe oh! I haven’t heard of either of those, so thank you! Yes, mostly just for urls, but I guess my problem is (like most people) information overload!

@herself I use Bear for just about everything. For a while it was Notion, but it’s too much infrastructure for what I need at the moment.

@herself Mostly Roam Research and sometimes the default Notes app.

@herself I use a funny combination of bitly, Instapaper, and Apple Notes/Craft for keeping track of these things. Each “box” for different types of info/URLs. It’s kind of a mess, but I am able to make some sense out of it.

@danalcantara I do like Bear a lot, but struggled to use it effectively as I’m also on Windows and Linux (as well as Mac). Was going with just a text notes structure (also Vim wiki) but it’s felt clunky lately.

@taylorsmith I do like the idea of having different boxes for things, already I use zim wiki for a handful of things, vim wiki for others. But I just have the sneaking feeling there are better options out there.

Craft looks interesting, but like Notion I’m not 100% sure how I would actually use it...

@herself I am not using Craft as much more than a nice-looking text editor with a few extra features. There are a lot of features I am not using. For me, it has turned into something like a “pro” version on Apple Notes.

In the past, I have had good luck with Keep It. Honestly, I can’t remember why I stopped using it :)

@taylorsmith interesting, I will have to have a play around with it. Keep It looks quite nice too!

@herself TBH, I find myself more and more going back to just writing stuff down. I am skeptical that I will actually ever want or need to go back to most of the stuff that low-friction web-clipping types of notes repos collect, and I don’t trust that whatever app, platform, or file format I choose will be supported or even readable over the long term.

@herself I find myself saving URLs to Notes. The newest update is quite strong, love the search, etc. I also use Bear for collecting essay notes, links, etc. and for notetaking in my creative writing course.

@petebrown so true. I’ve just been emailing myself links which go into a “to review” folder...which you’ve probably guessed has never been reviewed! Maybe I should just delete it all! 🎉

@herself I use Standard Notes, they have apps for Windows and smartphone (and web browser access too). I use it as my catch-all writing tool: from dumping URLs/lists, to quick jotting, to writing blog posts and even fiction. I like it because it's dead simple to use (essentially like opening a TXT file in Notepad, which is how I used to take notes in the past) but has some subtle extensions that you can add-in later on. Plus encryption/privacy for your account. For links - Pinboard, spiritual successor to Del.icio.us. Also simple and minimal, purely browser-based (no apps). Both SN and Pinboard are paid services, but worth the money to me, and it helps support the IndieWeb.

@vega Hey, thanks for these! I’ve heard of both but not checked either out. It would seem there is a plethora of options, but not so many that are cross platform. Standard Notes could be a goer! 👍

@vega @herself I completely forgot about Pinboard. Pinboard is really good. For research stuff, the ability to save a set of tabs in one bookmark is really powerful

@herself If I’d had to start over, now I would probably choose Obsidian over Roam Research. Can’t beat text files on my hard drive…

@jeroensangers and as I recall it plays well with Linux too...I think I need to check that out again.