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All these notes people take - what percentage of them do you ever go back to reference? I suspect some peoples notes are like my bookmarks/favorites - long lists of things that "I might need" at some point and then just end up cleaning up years later.

I'm most always in front of a computer so I don't need mobile. I use sublime for code and whatever minimal notes I do take end up using the PlainTasks plugin. It lets you do todo's and has other features.

If its work related and needs sharing and isn't code (that belongs as comments) then I use whatever work doc sharing tool is there, typically a wiki. These suffer from same issue above - docs, notes, diagrams end up there and theres a ton of stuff, some useful, some severely outdated. I wish you could put a time bound self destruct (like mission impossible) on notes and they clean themselves up - move to an Archive folder or something.



Lets just proceed with the premise that note taking is useful and answer the question.


I did answer the question. Part of useful discussions is questioning everything - I was merely commenting that maybe taking all those notes isn't as useful as one might think. This could influence someone to look beyond "note taking software" into other types of solutions that might also fit. Who knows, it might spark an idea for someone to create a new note taking app.

Lets not restrict the discussions to a Q&A format.




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