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#notetaking

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it's hilarious to go down the rabbit hole of researching "PKM" apps because every blog post is just someone definitively stating why they moved all their notes to X app and then 3 weeks later why they moved back to Y app.
thanks, I'll just stick with my markdown files.
#PKM #notetaking

If you're using #Microsoft #OneNote, you will face disadvantages when you don't switch to #Windows11 soon:

You are forced to "One Note on Windows" which requires a #Microsoft365 account. If you want to keep your previous computer/OS, your synchronization speed gets reduced just to punish your disobedience: windowslatest.com/2025/03/24/m

For anything that requires a certain amount of privacy/security, for anything long-term (avoiding #lockin effects), OneNote was a bad idea in the first place.

People who started with the original OneNote already faced data loss when MS forced them into the then mediocre cloud version in 2018: karl-voit.at/2018/04/21/end-of

My recommendation: re-evaluate your requirements and switch to a much better long-term alternative, such as #Emacs #Orgmode & not yet another hip lock-in monster like #Obsidian, #Evernote or other closed source #cloud solutions: karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-c

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparis

Windows Latest · Microsoft will intentionally slow OneNote for Windows 10, so you ditch it fasterMicrosoft has confirmed that it's killing off "OneNote for Windows 10," but it also plans to force the legacy app's sync to run slower.

Anyone use the #Zettelkasten method of note-taking and knowledge management? Stumbled across it and I'm quite curious about it. I read widely across a lot of topics. No longer in grad school but having a way to organize and cross-reference is really appealing.

zettelkasten.de/introduction/

Zettelkasten MethodIntroduction to the Zettelkasten MethodLearn how the Zettelkasten works as a system, what a Zettel is made of, and how to grow an organic web of knowledge.

In anticipation of my apprenticeship/course in software development, I'm looking at note taking apps again. Used Obsidian heavily, but I think it's become too bloated. I liked and wanted to use Emacs, but it's so complicated, it's too much work (to have it sync etc). NotesNook looks good, but when I import my notes, none of the images show. Logseq do Orgmode now, so that's a strong possibility...
Anything else I should look at?
#PKM #notetaking #ObsidianMD #emacs #logseq #notesnook

On keeping a zibaldone - L'Atelier Nomade

"Zibaldone means a heap of things or miscellany in Italian. They date back to antiquity and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century. Such books are essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas …"

ivanseymus.com/on-keeping-a-zi

L'Atelier Nomade · On keeping a zibaldone - L'Atelier NomadeZIbaldone, the word means a heap of things or miscellany in Italian. As a commonplace book, it can be described as a register of continuous learning.