[dchuk]

Capture now, fast. Organize on the fly with searches and filters.

I have this whole app sketched up where the idea is you just focus on writing notes and thoughts in one continuous stream, jumping around topics as you go like most professionals do, and then use searches and filters you can save to render different contexts easily from the single stream.

So you can switch between reviewing your work 1 on 1 history and your Christmas gift ideas with a change of a filter. You don’t have to worry about organizing anything, it’s all just a single stream of content and then searches.

I’ll likely never build it, but I’m convinced that would be the way I want to write notes. I don’t want a knowledge graph, I want a stream of consciousness capture tool with a way to use tags searches and filters to make sense of it.

Oh also: I want to write some notes in handwriting on my iPad, and then ocr and clean up those notes to be liked I typed them, but still preserve the original handwriting. I desperately want to be able to hand write notes sometimes, type them sometimes, have them all in one place, and have that place be a stream of consciousness and searchable.

One day.

[RedTwoon]

> Capture now, Fast

This is exactly right.

My method for rapid journaling/ thought logging:

- use note app of choice, (for me it is Obsidian)

- voice to text, rapid fire, get all my thoughts out in big paragraphs

- once every few day re-read + add heading to sections + add a couple hashtags + but otherwise leave it in a terrible spelling mistake ridden, grammarless mess

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> Every note is an extra cost

For notes where remembering / reviewing are important (i.e. todo lists), I've found:

"Bullet Method", which is essentially keeping an analog journal of bullet notes.

It really makes you slow down and track what is important , so you have a nice clean journal

[gglitch]

This sounds like something you could implement most (or all?) of in minutes with either of two methods: (a) a single text file with grep and, optionally, your own custom tags; or (b) a dedicated email account and client. With (a) you get a stupid-simple system with no setup, myriad sync/backup/versioning options, and unlimited scale; with (b) you get every device and OS conceivable, file attachments, and infrastructure you’re already using anyway.

[c54]

You might like Notational Velocity or nvAlt, basically only has fast new note creation and fast search.

[soulofmischief]

It wouldn't take much work to make filter lists first-class citizens in Logseq, if you want to try hacking it in: https://github.com/logseq/logseq

It would be a good feature to have, and it's better than starting from scratch.

> I desperately want to be able to hand write notes sometimes, type them sometimes, have them all in one place, and have that place be a stream of consciousness and searchable.

Logseq doesn't currently have saveable filter lists, but you can create pages with any title which will still collect and display direct and indirect references to that title/tag. This gets you 80% of the way there already, if you get used to the workflow.

Logseq multi-device sync is now in beta, as well.

[pps]

> Oh also: I want to write some notes in handwriting on my iPad, and then ocr and clean up those notes to be liked I typed them, but still preserve the original handwriting. I desperately want to be able to hand write notes sometimes, type them sometimes, have them all in one place, and have that place be a stream of consciousness and searchable.

You can try Nebo.

[mythhouse]

> I don’t want a knowledge graph,

I think most obsidian users will agree. I never quite understood the hype behind it. 'second brain' stuff never really made sense to me.

[cborenstein]

Stashpad isn't quite this but it's pretty close. Focused on stream-of-consciousness style notes. Would be curious what you think.