Ask HN: How do you manage your notes?

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Do you have a specific framework / methodology for taking notes ? Do you take notes at lectures ? Do you ever review them ? What tools do you use ?

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Paper and ink, in separate notebooks for each subject. Review the next day, and again before any exam that the material is likely to be on. I find paper is faster, easier to copy equations, and easier to read later.

This may be oversimplistic for many people's use cases, but personally I write my notes in Markdown and store them all as plain text in a Dropbox folder. I search them the same way I search code with The Silver Searcher (`ag`) [1].

It works well for me and I don't run into any problems with being locked into software that's either not interoperable with anything else, or which is no longer maintained a few years from now.

[1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

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