Ask HN: What note-taking application do you use?

[tejas1mehta]

Does anyone know of a note-taking application that has that ability to add labels to notes, has advanced filters and has regular expression search?

[alphanumeric0]

May I suggest taking notes by hand? There was at least one study that determined taking notes by hand forces you to summarize the information, and so you end up increasing your recall as a result. (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret...)

[stewbrew]

Humanity survived without apps for quite a long time. I'm not sure though the comparison would yield the same result for information retrieval.

[stewbrew]

VIM + ((vim)?grep|ack|at|...)

That said. I also liked TiddlyWiki.