5mo ago

What is your methodology behind note taking and other research related services you host?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.selfhostcat.com/post/108211

my methods have been:
use trilium for any detailed notes and documentation
memos for random thoughts especially if shorter
pen and paper when offline or on mobile because mobile trilium and moememos both suck
zotero for citation and bibliography manager
backed up to nextcloud
i have paperless-ngx but found it randomly errors a ton of things and zotero is fine.
considering if it’s worth it to have so many different spread out methods
theyre fun to use but it creates more chaos then needed

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Sorry idk if it’s worth cross posting here or not. I don’t want to spam but I want to contribute to this community being active too :)
- Definitely worth cross posting!
- @ocean
  I used to have one single giant org-mode file. At some point, for technical reasons I had not access to it. So I created a file for the current week. This ends up ensier to mentally handle. Sd I'm sticking to it.
  During meetings, I take paper notes and extract most important of it to my curreot week org file.
  All these files are synced with syncthing.
  
  That’s smart! How do you format that file? Dates and day headers? What about org-mode works for you? Haven’t used that
For note taking my current, longest and most successful setup is:
Syncing on all relevant devices (including a remote synching server running)
Neovim with vimwiki on computers
Obsidian on my phone
Notes: Obsidian, synced via syncthing
Reading annotating PDFs and ,EPUBs: Obsidian annotator
Presentations: Obsidian advanced slides
Blogging/portfolio: Hugo via Obsidian
Todo and shared grocery/chore lists: Tasks via Nextcloud
I've fooled around with silverbullet.md and that is a powerful tool. But it has a lot of rough edges. For example login. I might need to switch to something which is working on mobile and maybe a bit more easy to use.
I've been using NextCloud, too. That one has everything and lots of apps to take notes, store documents etc.
Paperless-ngx seems to work fine on my setup. No issues so far.
Just adopted Joplin (FOSS all the way) for notes on desktop and mobile, using my own Seafile instance as the cloud service through webdav. Very happy with it so far, be it short and quick or long and complex notes.
Also using Zotero for bibliography management and related notes, also backing up to Seafile webdav. Joplin and Zotero also play together, but haven't tried that out yet.
zotero all the way.
I make an isolated note with questions i want to answer (that can change in the process) and an item note with what i learned that answers the questions in the item.

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