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I'd agree with you, but the killer feature digital notes have, for me, is the quick and effortless searching.
by endisukaj 7y ago
I'd agree with you, but the killer feature digital notes have, for me, is the quick and effortless searching.
- aloknnikhil 7y agoYup. I miss this too. I tried OCR for all my written notes, it just doesn't work.
- Operyl 7y agoI found that using an iPad with the Pencil has been a great middle ground. The OCR in the various Notes apps (including stock) is able to recognize my horrendous writing (it’s really bad).
- Topgamer7 7y agoYou can use your own writing to create a font set for OCR to recognize off of. Will doing a better job off a data set trained off of your own writing. I've done some minor OCR to scan my bank PDF statements. I use tesseract iirc, there are different training sets to use. You can build a training set from your own writing.
- johnzim 7y agoNothing has ever beaten the Newton Messagepad for me for this (certainly the last models made, the 2100). I really wish a modern Newton existed. Evernote started off quite Newton'y (Newton team members were on board) but I fell off quite early.
- lostlogin 7y agoI’m in your camp. Apple Notes somehow fell into this gap for me. For me the ability to format, add images and screenshots and easily share gave it an edge over plain text.
- gorgoiler 7y agoI loved notes for years but switched to Bear in the last few months in order to get sane Markdown export. I couldn’t ever find a nice way of exporting (and backing up) my Notes notes. There was an IMAP storage option but that meant losing formatting options.
- bobbylarrybobby 7y agoThere's this: https://bear.app/faq/Import%20&%20export/Migrate%20from%20Apple%20Notes/ https://bear.app/faq/Import%20&%20export/Migrate%20from%20Ap...
- hanche 7y agoI have been using FSNotes for the past year, but feel ready for something more polished; so now I am trying Bear. Thanks for the tip! Did you look at FSNotes before switching to Bear yorself? My own note taking is too fragmented right now, being split between org mode, FSNotes, and Apple Notes. It’s a bit like having clothing with too many pockets: I am too often unsure where to look for a particular note.
- jliu70 7y agoYou can try Exporter. I've been using it for some time now to export Apple Notes to markdown and then checking into a git repo. Caveat: it doesn't export attachments or tables. http://writeapp.net/notesexporter/ http://writeapp.net/notesexporter/
- JoachimS 7y agoI'm also using Bear for note taking. It is a great tool that includes a nice way to export documents with style. One thing I struggle with is taking notes for things not related to work. This might be because I have a separate set of notes for work and not work. After reading the article I've decided to try and use one diary for everything. One note per day, but all in one place. A few things I miss for this to be really good are: 1. Folding. A single file will be long. Being able to fold the major sections (# Work, # Private # Projects) would be really helpful. It seems Bear is planning to add folding. 2. Security. One can select all notes under a given tag (for example #Diary), but if they contain an attachment - for example an image, the password based encryption can't be applied.
- rhn_mk1 7y agoPaper notes work better for small, in-the-moment things. For tasks, this might be the plan for the next few days, where everything fits on the same page. For notes, those might be scribbles to help solve the problem at hand. Larger and more long term things start benefitting from searchability indeed.
- tmh88j 7y agoI end up with far more useful notes on digital mediums than paper, unless it's something I need to sketch.