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by bcheung 2850 days ago
Would help us to know more about the specific use case and goal you had in mind.

For now, generically speaking, I use OneNote for keeping track of my own generated ideas and pasting in things from other sources. For larger media I recommend having a network drive or using Dropbox.

I'm happy with OneNote.

For my more technical ideas where I'm brainstorming I have a nice leather journal (no lines) that I use for brainstorming. I tried using a Surface Studio as well with the pen and that works good too because you have an infinite canvas and can move things around. With paper / whiteboard brainstorming I frequently run out of room. Digital means I can just drag a bunch of stuff to make more room. Plus having the pen and choosing different colors makes it really freeform.

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I loved OneNote until I tried to put some code snippets into it. Somehow over time they become unusable for cut and paste into *nix systems. Did you find a way to overcome this? I have no time to dos2unix everything.
OneNote even has a code format, but it still messes with capitalization. I gave up when MS announced mobile only and the desktop app is done.
No, I don't really use it for code. I use git repos / gist for that.