Commonplace book

[Scarecrow]

The commonplace book episode is my favorite episode. I using the software obsidian to take and organize my notes. I’m enjoying it so far. Want to ask if anyone else is using that software. And ask if Leo is still using a commonplace book and still using one note. Not sure if there is already a thread where people share their commonplace books, but that would be cool. 

[origin]

I just watched the commonplace book episode and I think I’ll try this one : www.notion.so

[LordFall]

@origin Be careful with Notion they're notoriously a hard company to deal with and they can view all your notes nothing is encrypted. Obsidian is much better.

I've used Notion for 2 years now, up to 32 000 notes. It's a phenomenal software, thank you to @Leo Gura for introducing me to the notion of a commonplace book, it's taken my intellectual ability to a whole other paradigm. 

[origin]

51 minutes ago, LordFall said:

@origin Be careful with Notion they're notoriously a hard company to deal with and they can view all your notes nothing is encrypted. Obsidian is much better.

I appreciate the tip ! I’ll check out Obsidian as well.

[Human Mint]

I'll give it a try. I used OneNote before for courses notetaking.

[UnbornTao]

I haven't been actively maintaining my commonplace book for a while now, but I'd recommend Obsidian. It is tried and tested and has a solid (free) plugin marketplace.

Logseq is similar and open-source, but I haven't tried it. Same goes for Joplin.

[Human Mint]

The only reason I want to start doing it is to be able to revisit old ideas that get buried over time. Other than that I don't find it much use.

[Sincerity]

23 hours ago, Scarecrow said:

Not sure if there is already a thread where people share their commonplace books, but that would be cool. 

Tip: do google searches like:

• site:actualized.org obsidian
• site:actualized.org commonplace book

We've had some Obsidian threads before, such as:

Obsidian is da bomb.  

[Leo Gura]

I use Scrivner a lot more than OneNote these days. Scrivner is good for organizing your writing if you are a writer. It is made for writers. I do most of my intellectual work inside it.

But OneNote will be better for general notetaking.

Edited November 25 by Leo Gura

[Human Mint]

Honestly OneNote is quite good for a commonplace book. I had troubles with it when I wanted to write over pdf, because is not built for that. Other than that it works. But I won't be surprised if I encounter more problems with it, my trust in Microsoft is already compromised (they put ads into my personal pc).

[mmKay]

I was using OneNote for 8 years. Switched to Notion and now learning Obsidian which looks to be the winner for now

[amberlight]

Obsidian is nice, you can turn it into whatever you need it to be with plugins.
But i recommend just ignoring the obsidian youtube sphere, they over complicate things and play around with gimmicks like graph view imo.

Its best to keep it as simple as possible and when in your day to day use actually think "I wish i could do x"  you look for those extensions.

[pablo_aka_god]

I've been using Notion for 5 years but I am concerned with serious issues like privacy and the feeling that I don't really own my notes since they are stored in their servers eg: they could change the policy or pricing at any time and lock me out of my content if I don't pay or what if they decide to delete old files on free accounts to save storage and I never read the policy update until they already deleted my old data? or what if I get banned bc of some policy violation?. Also it's incredibly slow.

I'm trying Obsidian right now and the first thing I noticed is a huge speed upgrade. and the fact that I own my notes because they are stored in my computer and I can read as .md files and backup them up with any method I prefer is giving me peace of mind. I plan to slowly transition to Obsidian during the next month

 

Edited November 26 by pablo_aka_god