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I take my notes in Notion and Roam Research, and you? [Week 29/2020 in Review]

Stefan Natter πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΉπŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’» on July 21, 2020

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Dragos Bulugean

I like Notion and Roam, but they are not for developers, they're generic note taking apps.

This is why I built Archbee, an app that lets developers and their team note take everything from thoughts, diagrams, API docs, changelogs and more.

Try it and let me know what you think πŸ€—

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Stefan Natter πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΉπŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’» • Edited

Hi Dragos,

thanks for sharing Archbee with us. I will definitely look.

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Dragos Bulugean

much appreciated, Stefan!

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Ξ€obias Whetton

Great article, really interesting to read how you use different apps for your note-taking needs. I actually just posted a Show Dev about Supernotes, the note-taking app I am building, would love to hear your thoughts.

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Stefan Natter πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΉπŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’»

Hi Tobias,

Sure. I am gonna read your Shownotes and let you know what I think!

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George C. G. Barbosa

I use todoist + github.
I keep a lot of my notes on a github project called 'life'.
I use GTD with todoist to do the rest.
There is also google calendar that is pretty much a must nowadays since everybody uses it.
I am looking for a method to go full github, but the fact that todoist gives me a cross device experience,
it seem to be hard to replace.

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Stefan Natter πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΉπŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’»

Thanks for your insights and experience. How do you organize the notes in your github projects?

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George C. G. Barbosa

Nothing fancy.
I use markdown files for text.
The rest follows a similar structure to this:
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β”œβ”€β”€ README.md
β”œβ”€β”€ active-learning.md
β”œβ”€β”€ books.md
β”œβ”€β”€ goals.md
β”œβ”€β”€ journal
β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ 2019
β”‚Β Β  β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ april.md
β”‚Β Β  β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ august.md
β”‚Β Β  β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ december.md
β”‚Β Β  β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ july.md
β”‚Β Β  β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ june.md
β”‚Β Β  β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ may.md
β”‚Β Β  β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ november.md
β”‚Β Β  β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ october.md
β”‚Β Β  β”‚Β Β  └── september.md
β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ april.md
β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ february.md
β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ january.md
β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ july.md

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Tawanda Nyahuye

Nice review. Guess whose name appeared on tweet of the week? ヽ(β€’β€Ώβ€’)γƒŽ

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Stefan Natter πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΉπŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’»

I am happy you liked it Tawanda!

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Emilie Ma

Super cool resources shared - definitely will be looking more into second-brain / notetaking tools like Roam.

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Stefan Natter πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΉπŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’»

Thanks, Emilie. I am happy you liked it. Let me know what you think of Roam, once you tried it.

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jose palala

Just sharing, another tool that's useful for note-taking is workflowy.

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Stefan Natter πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΉπŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’»

Thanks Jose, didn't know workflowy. Cool.