Handwriting to text support. I haven’t found anything with this since OneNote. You’d think that in the interceding decade, someone would have made a FOSS equivalent. Especially now, with the rise of AI.
Writing things by hand is a big part of knowledge retention for a lot of people, but I also need to be able to search my notes. Text can be searched but typing doesn’t help with memory, and handwriting helps with memory but can’t be searched in the apps at my disposal.
As someone who hasn’t looked into plugins yet, Obsidian.md doesn’t have changing the color of the text in the same way I can change it on say, Microsoft Word or Google Docs. I can probably do something in CSS or HTML to let me change it at will, but it’s not built-in.
Also not too vital, so I’m letting it go. I’ll learn how to do it when I actually need it. I’m satisfied.
What I really want from bote taking app is some gamification of the proccess. I want to be able to do something with created notes. Throw them arround, rearrange.
Sounds like you want note mapping and table of contents, have you heard of Roam Research? I think they started the back linking mapping thing, and now you have it on Obsidian, and technically can do it on Joplin and probably some others. I also went from Evernote to Google Keep actually! I found it the best at certain things and it did have a very playful vibe. But know that many apps have different themes and layouts to play with, and now I know I need that - the first thing I do with an app is make sure it’s displaying colors that I enjoy.
I want to be able to do something with created notes. Throw them arround, rearrange.
Feels like we need less linear note taking for that. So something like Wikipedia with lots of links to other information, and that ability to use hashtags to group information throughout the user’s notes.
Saw today that Obsidian has a plugin for TTRPG writing. I guess if I wanted to do Chapters and Subchapters myself I’d make a table of contents page and navigate from there to all the other pages using backlinks. LaTeX you are so right but because of that I just use templates. Your idea sounds awesome too, I wanna check that out.
I also use Obsidian, and I use Todoist. I use lots of daily notes when I want to jot things down. Facts and ideas go into basically a Zettelkasten system. I also keep a GTD-style directory structure for reference material - stuff like tax forms, info for kids’ schools, etc. I make a lot of use of the Folder Note plugin for that.
For todos I use a GTD system with action priorities. So I have lots of projects which mostly have one or two actions each. I mix some ideas from GTD, and from one of my wife’s favorite books, How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life by Alan Lakein. I have a view that collects all actions in one place, but only shows actions that are prioritized, and aren’t due yet, and aren’t labeled as blocked.
For a while I used Obsidian for todos using the Dataview plugin to collect, sort, and filter todos. I used the Quickadd plugin to capture todos. What I liked about that system was it made reviews easy: I had a document with headings for each project with next actions for each. The reason I switched is that I wasn’t looking at my next actions list often enough, and I didn’t have a way to show notifications when something should be done at a specific time. Even when I thought about checking my todos, and I had a home screen shortcut to my next actions document, opening Obsidian on Android is slow enough to add friction. Todoist helps with a home screen widget, notifications, and by opening faster.
I had a similar problem, in my experience is a skill that can be acquired rather quickly. I had nice results with SQR3 reading method, roughly like this:
Skim the material, get the basic idea
Think of several questions you have for this material, given it’s basic idea
Read it again, slowly and thoroughly
Go back to your questions and write down answers for them
Gradually this can get your more comfortable expressing things in your own language.
I tried it but for me, local-first is an absolute non-negotiable. I did load it up to test it but another thing that put me off is it doesn’t have a dark mode/theme. Even worse, in their FAQ about it, they said they likely won’t have dark mode for a long time as it’s not a priority!?? It would literally take me all of 5 minutes to add a dark theme. Like wtf are they talking about? It made me worried about the rest of it as to me that clearly signifies that the developers are incompetent.
There are no such things as wrong words. Just write things.
When you come here to post something in Lemmy, do you start shitting in your pants worrying about using the wrong words to write your comment? Probably not.
So why are you doing that when writing simple personal notes? You should worry about it even less than a Lemmy comment, since no one else will see your notes (probably).
I have messed around with it. I’m one of those people who liked Roam so much that I paid to be a Founder. All these tools sound cool, but in practice, you really need to have a need for all that cross-linking.
Although on some of those magazine the federating of posts doesn't seem to work as it looks empty on here but there are posts on the respective instance
So I just postponed watching valuable content, because I need it to watch while taking notes. It is different to when I just watched videos and felt smart for a minute. Only to forget about it in a week…
I don't have the energy to watch everything right away, but I can just send it to a Read/Watch It Later area or copy/paste the URL into a "to be processed later" area.
I wanted to learn TiddlyWiki but I wanted to be able to edit from my iOS device. As far as I remember, I needed an app to do that, one that wasn't officially supported. So I went to Obsidian instead. I appreciate that it stores notes on your device so you are not locked in in case anything happens. And that I have an officially supported iOS app.
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