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I believe I shared this once before. After twenty years of trying every possible note taking app from Word 95 to Notion, this is now the entirety of my note taking app:

  #!/bin/bash

  read text
  _date=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
  echo -e "\n$_date: $text" >> ~/Dropbox/notes/stream.txt


So you only take notes while on your actual computer. You never take notes besides when you are on your computer.


I usually use a paper notebook when I'm away from my computer. But if I really want to take a digital note, I can do so. Notice that the text file is synced to Dropbox. I can open it using the Dropbox mobile app, scroll to the bottom and add a manual entry. But obviously, it's not as fast as a command line entry.


I’ve set-up an iPhone’s Shortcuts workflow which basically replicates the shell script above. Works very well. Reading on mobile is a bit painful, but doable, and I mostly do it at a computer anyway.


This can also work on mobile if you SSH into a cloud VM for example.




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