Google Keep, because it works on my Pixel Watch, which is the only way (so far) I can use it at the exact moment when I actually need it and not have my ADHD brain forget it halfway through.

Depend on what I’m doing and where I am. At work, I’m usually using my iPad more than anything and note taking is usually work related. For that I use an app called GoodNotes (basically a PDF annotator. Think pen and paper, but digital.). If I’m at home, I usually type the notes into a markdown file using a text editor. Todo lists and shopping lists are usually done in Reminders on my iPhone.

I have a work phone and a personal phone. If I’m in the field I will text work related things to my work phone. Sometimes I’ll take a picture of things I need to remember to do instead of taking a note, these can end up in either phone. I have a notepad at my desk that I’ll take notes on if I’m at my desk. If I’m walking into a meeting I’ll take blank sheets of printer paper and write on those, sometimes I’ll take a picture of these notes after the meeting. I have a work account with one note that I use sometimes and a personal account on obsidian that I use mostly for taking notes on whatever I’m reading or ideas for projects. At the end of every week I’ll look through all my pictures, notes, pictures of notes, etc. and make a list of stuff I need to do next week.

It’s a mess.

If I just need a quick note to remind me of something or like to help do a puzzle in a game, I just use Notes (the google app).

If I am taking a class or something, I use an audio recorder and then transcribe it later.

• | [Subject]

• | [important parts about the subject] | • [elaborate on important parts] | ex [example text of the subject

With the | being the boarder of the notebook paper and the bulk of the text being some form of shorthand that reminds me of the information. Example:

• Lemmy

• social network
• user name anonymous
• has mods • users complain about mods • flying squid? •probably humans
• lots of memes • *beans" • don’t use 🙂
• hates reddit

Usually just remember stuff. I’m terrible at taking notes - I either forget to take any paper/pen or I don’t know what’s important and don’t make any notes.

If I get an action item I’ll write it down or stick it somewhere on my work phone. It probably won’t make much sense so I’ll need to remember what it was about anyway - it just serves as a reminder that I need to do something.

At my first job somebody showed me a system that I needed to use, step by step, for a task that I needed to do to cover them the next week. I took no notes (didn’t even occur to me), she was surprised that I took no notes, but I remembered it all and did the task.

I’m not sure my memory is quite good enough to trust these days, but back then it worked fine.

OneNote for work. Usually for meeting notes to help me transfer to Action items in to the task management software. I also use it to keep a record of my conversations with team members.

I also use it as a temporary location for information while performing work. I later transfer those into the details section of the task management software.

Apple Notes for personal. App is also installed on my personal laptop. It’s simple to share Notes with my partner.

I use Standard Notes and Logseq

Standard Notes mostly for personal use, build a knowledge base where I can set categories to each not without rushing.

Logseq for professional use. I often join meetings with lots of people discussing topics for different projects. With Logseq, I can easily write down notes and add tags to easily correlate people, project, topic, status. I don’t need to think which category to save that note, just write on the Journal page and add the tags. Easy! The advanced queries is an amazing featured, I can easily create queries to summarise status of each project and who is working on it. With that in mind, I can easily send status reports to the stakeholder with just one click.

Both are private and don’t belong to any of the big tech. Standard notes was acquired by Proton (from ProtonMail), and it is E2EE. Logseq uses local storage, but its possible to sync (can be quite tricky).

I mostly take notes in markdown on Obsidian. There’s a bunch of nice plugins too that can add to your workflow. I don’t really use the linking functionality much cause I don’t find myself using it a lot even when I do it (and my notes aren’t that complicated). I always try to do only point form notes since any longer and I find that it becomes hard to read.

For personal notes I mostly make use of the Kanban plugin. You can make each card an individual note file and then jot stuff down in those to keep track of relevant information.

I mostly use the quick switcher plugin to navigate by he name of the .md file. So everything is only “roughly” organized in folders with minimal nesting.

It’s been years since I was im school… but yes, on a notepad with different emphasis for different things.

1. In general, summarize what the prof. is saying.

2. If they’re talking about something from the book, note it with a ⭐

3. If they say “this is important” mark it with an ❕

4. Write it on the board or project it, undeine that.

If you don’t feel like you need to take notes, then I wouldn’t worry about it. Once you leave school, there’s not necessarily a need for it. For me they are generally just reminders, like you stated.

The majority of my notes are placed in Google Keep. I know that Lemmy hates Google, but it’s really convenient for me…since they are online I can access them from any device. And the app version sometimes comes pre-installed on my devices anyway.

If I only need to remember one simple, time sensitive item…then yes I often use a reminder app to notify me like you do too.

But here are some scenarios where I take notes in my notes app:

1. Grocery lists. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone to the store for only like 1 or 2 items and completely forgot to buy what I came in for lol

2. Requests at work. Often, a task that is requested of me will be done over a landline phone. So I pull out my cell phone and take a quick note of the task to help me remember and make sure it is done correctly

3. Semi-ordered lists of multiple tasks I intend to do. For example, suppose I am expecting family to come over one weekend. I’ll have various notes that help remind me what I need to do and when. Things like different types of cleaning tasks, getting snacks, etc.

In my home, I also have a handwritten notepad of passwords to my accounts written in a cryptic partially pictogram cypher lol. If someone manages to find and figure them out, have fun with those accounts lol.

At work, I also often write notes directly onto my workbench itself in pencil! My workbench is a contaminated space, so I don’t necessarily have my phone out. I use my phone to take notes while talking on the nom-conatimated landline. But at my workbench itself I write directly onto my workspace lmao. It probably looks a bit unprofessional, but I don’t think it stands out too much and is easy to erase when done! The first time someone showed me that you could easily do this, my mind was blown lol. At work, I write workbench notes all the time lmao.

• shopping list: Nextcloud Notes
• small things which just came to mind and need processing later: Nextcloud Notes
• lesson notes; planning for projects: Orgmode documents with (deep) multilevel bullet lists
• planning for longterm projects: Nextcloud Deck

Amplenote, never looking back. Organizing notes with tags, combined with proper rich text formatting and attachments is what makes it perfect system for me. I’m using free plan, considering subscribing in future just to support the app, but I don’t need any of the paid features atm.

Obsidian, which saves notes in markdown, synced with syncthing across my devices.

More important. Than taking notes is what are you gonna do with them. This conditions how, where, and with what you take notes.

If you’re never gonna look at them again and just generally use it to think, brainstorm, or remember things better. Then it doesn’t matter where, just use whatever is immediately available to you.

If it needs to be later referenced, shared, archived or processed into finished products for personal projects or work, there are several options. Note taking apps, text editing software, plugins for different editors. Each will do things different and will link differently to different work pipelines.

My current pipeline is notes either on the phone or on a notepad. Then I clean and process said notes on OneNote (don’t judge, work pays for it and it is the only one available). Where they are more structured, tagged, detailed, hyperlinked or whatever else it takes. That’s where I also take notes for meetings or training and study sessions.

Finally, I use those notes for writing reports, minutes, and presentations. Which are then sent to the actual institutional archive.

Me and all my colleagues erase old notes once they’re no longer relevant for data protection, so we don’t use the archive features of ONote. But the encrypted sharing and sync is very useful for collaboration and to save your work in case of hardware failure.

On my personal life I have permanent places of data storage, and take notes with whatever I happen to have at hand. Samsung notes, paper, notepads, whatever. Data always end up either being deleted or sent to a more permanent place. Just like with cameras, the best tool is the one you have at hand when you need it.