How do you take notes?

Obsidian vault in my cloud storage. Does everything I need with no bells and whistles.

Am I weird for just using a pen and paper? I recently upgraded my setup by buying a binder and ~1000 pages so I won't have to burn through notebooks or money.

One thing that I know for sure is weird is that I use a fountain pen for it all...

Obsidian sync'd with my desktop PC, usually. Though also experimenting with doing the same with Orgro. Both on my phone. If I happen to be in front of my PC, just org-mode in emacs.

I use obsidian for just text stuff I need to remember later. If I need to do math or need a diagram temporarily I prefer pencil and paper. If I want to save diagrams for later I have a drawing tablet that I use like a whiteboard so that I can save and use layers. If you don't have a drawing tablet Autodesk sketchbook is a decent substitute that can be used on your phone.

Zim just works.

I use a 20+ year old PDA for notes and other general productivity/organization needs. Distraction free, keeps me off my phone, and a fun conversation piece. Handy for staying on top of my ADHD.

Currently, poorly. I’m trying to pick up some Zettelkasten habits. I started to, using Logseq, and now I’m trying to switch to Org-roam.

Notesnook at the moment. Excited that they're started supporting self-hosting. It seems immature but working well for people. I'll get round to hosting my own sync server when I have the time and maybe once self-hosting is more mature.

Nextcloud notes finally got good enough to replace google keep a while ago.

Been happily using that since.

The good old notepad. One-time notes go in my pocket, anything even short-term get put in the bullet journal.

Complex stuff (talks, projects, brainstorming, etc): The notes get taken on paper. Some things stay there, because the act of writing them down is enough. Some things then move to my "second brain;" for personal stuff, that's currently on Notion (I'm contemplating migrating it to Obsidian or something similar). For work stuff, that's a Slack thread, or (if it's really important) Confluence.

Todos go into Google Tasks. I used to use Todoist, but I got frustrated by how inflexible the notification system was.

Shopping lists (and a few other similar lists that need to be shared) go into Google Keep.

Vimwiki & syncthing

Lightweight, libre, synchs on all my devices. Links between notes. All I need.

Selfhosting Joplin with my partner on our synolgy nas. Works great, not perfect but good enough.

The walk in the bathroom of my pub.

I used to keep a text file in each project, with todo items at the top and a 'done' section at the bottom. File gets too big, start a new file.

Now I use a note taking program that stores markdown notes with links in between them. Kind of the same idea, mostly, some notes are to-do items and others are lists. I have about 10000 notes in there.

email and notepadd++ are the most common but sometimes a calendar.

On my tablet I use xournal++, and on my computer I use vim.

I use Logseq for work and it's a godsend when trying to pull up old commands, code snippets, and when something happened.

Foxy Notes only one that I've stuck with

Previously used OINotepad.

Now using neutriNote for quick note taking.

I have an entire Second Brain on OneNote organized into sections pertaining to many things. There is no tagging system. I have recently gotten into Obsidian. It is fully free and there are ways to get around the subscription to sync feature. It has tagging, uses primally markdown which I am now learning more of and so many free plugins like kanban style boards and spreadsheets. I had previously used links in OneNote to link to Google Sheets but now I will move some important info to Obsidian. Where you can link within and externally plus so many more features, and for all platforms.

An event or something I need to do on a specific time? Calendar app.

Something I need to do when I have time? The Simple Notes app has a handy widget which I havenon the phone homescreen to have it on my sight constantly to remember I have stuff that needs doing.

Anything else I use Quillpad for.

Silverbullet or Trillium Notes

I taught myself LaTeX in college and just hand typed notes during class in notepad++