notes

While I don't use it personally there's: https://obsidian.md/ It's cross platform and works offline. You write markdown and it produces a visual graph of your data. It supports interlinking notes, tags and images too. Plain text notes[0] work best for me but I'd probably use Obsidian if I wanted to see things visually. When I tried it out briefly it was really solid. [0]: https://github.com/nickjj/notes

This is what I do too. I have 20 years of notes saved like this. I also open sourced a zero dependency Bash script that handles this at: https://github.com/nickjj/notes It supports adding notes in 3 different ways: notes hello world appends the text to the YYYY-MM.txt dated file echo cool | notes same as above except you can pipe in text notes opens the YYYY-MM.txt file in your configured $EDITOR I use all 3 methods of input on a regular basis depending on what I want to jot down.

I use plain text notes for everything. Have been since 2001. A while back I open sourced a script that helps me easily create them in a few different ways without leaving the terminal: https://github.com/nickjj/notes Then I let grep and friends handle the problem of searching as needed. I don't really worry about things like photos because I treat photos differently than notes or text snippets.

Does anyone else use plain text notes for everything? I've tried to optimize things so that while working, I can get things jotted down with close to zero resistance. If the barrier of entry is too high then I don't bother doing it. That means often being able to spawn a new terminal, write a command and be done with it. Or to be able to pipe something from my clipboard into an auto-dated file. I ended up putting together this ~15 line Bash script which seems to do the trick: https://github.com/nickjj/notes I've been using plain text notes since 2001, although I only recently created this script. So far so good.