What note taking apps do you use at work/for projects?
I was watching a video from a well known note-taking influencer/teacher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3dDVtJ2sec and was curious what everyone used for note taking. In addition- how do you approach note taking?
For me:
- Approach:
- Everything should be based on keyword search
- I use tags to organize by project GTD style if need be
- "Librarian style" (see video above)- clip all sorts of things without too much regard to storing
- Implementation
- Use evernote for personal notes
- For personal projects, use Google docs if I need friends to comment (I would prefer quip or paper, but the reality is that the most important thing is to NOT have to inconvenience ppl with new account creation)
- For structured data, I use Airtable.
- If I need to display the data in a public way, embed on Medium (see https://bit.ly/tableau-alumni-founders for example
- If I need to display the data in a semi public way, use Notion's site functionality (not ideal, I would like to ideally embed Airtable within google docs- Quip/Dropbox Paper allows for that)
Discussion
(3 comments)- 12 years agoMeta, Pinterest, Kosei
I am curious on other people's system for this, since I am relatively unsophisticated here. I just use a Google doc for discussions with the Taro team, my YouTube videos, and other projects. I also use physical sticky notes for things I work on day-to-day.
At Meta, most of the PMs + engs used Quip, so I used that for my "work diary" and some design docs. If you work on a team, the friction of sharing is very real, like you said, so I'd just use what others on the team are using.
Working at Airtable, I imagine you are able to innovate in a much more meaningful way with regards to how you present data and share it. I like the examples you gave, I need to adopt those over time.
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2 years agoComstock Software, IncI use: RoamResearch.com
Google Keep looks amazing when my customers use it. - 12 years agoSenior Software Engineer [OP]Airtable
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Working at Airtable, I imagine you are able to innovate in a much more meaningful way with regards to how you present data and share it.
Actually we used Quip until 2020 then switched over to google docs 😅
It's been cool to see Airtable interfaces used internally though, that's one tool I think basically has no equivalent anywhere else
