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• Ask HN: What note taking app do you use and why?

  I use https://simplenote.com - Syncs across multiple platforms. - Plaintext based (with MD support). - Search + edit UI similar to https://notational.net and https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt - Simple to publish/share notes - Free (as in beer and speech) --- If I used MacOS or there were web versions, I would love to use the following (they are all better at plaintext than SimpleNote): -... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?

  In no particular order: Prologue [0] - iOS Audiobook player, used Plex as a media source Overcast [1] - iOS Podcast player CleanShotX [2] - macOS screenshot/video/gif capture with annotation Drafts [3] - iOS/macOS note taking tool Paprika [4] - Cross platform recipe app YNAB [5] - "You Need A Budget" - web/mobile budgeting app 1Password [6] - Cross platform password manager Carrot Weather [7] - iOS weather app... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Question: Best Statistics/Dashboard Solutions for Todoist?

  Finally, using Google Apps Script, I email myself a weekly summary of tracker/Todoist tasks completed with a comparison versus the previous week. It also contains a link to the graph that is published on the web. I also send this to Drafts using the mail drop feature. Source: over 1 year ago

• Taking notes on podcasts/audiobooks

  When I want to take notes on something I'm listening to, like a book quote or a thought I have while listening, I stop and make a note right then. Because I don't know if the next paragraph is going to suck me in more and make me forget whatever I wanted to note. I have a few ways to do this. I often take a voice recorder with me in the car, so if I have interesting ideas while driving I can just push a button,... Source: over 1 year ago

• Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes starting December 4

  I love Drafts, only for mac and iOS however: https://getdrafts.com/ Pro version is reasonably priced although I haven't found a need to upgrade. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Emailing notes from Obsidian Mobile

  This is something I can do using Drafts, but I have to copy the body of the note and switch applications. Source: over 1 year ago

• What better tools exist?

  Note taking: Take notes in Drafts, store them in Devonthink. Source: over 1 year ago

• Task URL doesn't open tasks on iPhone

  Works as expected for me on iPhone. I copied a task's URL into Drafts on my Mac. Opened the draft on iPhone and clicked on the URL. It opened the task within the Todoist app as expected. Source: over 1 year ago

• Quick capture — ideas?

  You can try the Drafts app. Quickly capture text and send it anywhere you want afterwards. https://getdrafts.com. Source: over 1 year ago

• Do you use mobile app? I found myself use it on my phone seldom because of its UI

  My solution has it been to use the Drafts app on mobile for fleeting thoughts, scratch pads, and for other things I want to write in the moment. Much faster, syncs instantly across devices, and has an easy export button directly into Obsidian. Source: over 1 year ago

• Todoist voice apple iftt integration with iOS reminders not great

  The most reliable way I’ve found to dictate into the Todoist Inbox is via a Drafts action. Double-tapping back of the iPhone invokes the Drafts action which runs its own dictation interface. Dictate multi-line tasks, and upon completion, the action runs and you have the individual tasks in your Todoist inbox. You can learn more of Drafts’ Todoist integration here. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Transitioning to Logseq: Seeking Assistance and Excited to Contribute!

  Drafts for long term notes and or long form writing in markdown. (https://getdrafts.com/ - It's significantly better than obsidian if you have a mac workflow, and all the apps are native so it's very refreshing coming from electron apps), and finally workflowy for list things and projects. I wanted to replace workflowy and drafts with logseq but it was a significant downgrade for me. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Anyone can recommend ChatGPT app? I can’t seem to find any good reviews about it

  I use Drafts with the ChatGPT conversation action, which really is brilliant. Keeps all your conversations as tagged notes in Drafts, and also works seamlessly with mobile, so you can ask things on mobile and then process the results on your Mac later. And of course Drafts is great at exporting, so you can prepare things in Drafts using ChatGPT and then send the results to different apps. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Drafts on iphone, anything similar on android?

  Any app similar to Drafts on iphone? Https://getdrafts.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• BBEdit-like app on iOS

  For general purpose editing, the closest used to be Editorial, but the developer seems to have abandoned the project. Drafts is capable, but may need some additional community actions (scripts) installed for your needs. For visual find/search alone, RegEx Knife is pretty good. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Suggestions for tracking habits/events/symptoms easily via calendar / CalDAV sync?

  Another alternative might be something like Drafts? Hugely underrated for tracking, I think. Has an extensible actions system that would allow you to create a widget with buttons that fire off preformatted events to your selected calendar, limited only by how comfortable you are with coding (javascript). The Drafts community is pretty helpful, so if you wanted to head in this direction, I'm sure you'd be able to... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Productivity software suggestions

  Drafts (https://getdrafts.com/) - Writing quick messages like these. Easy to access from all my machines, so it's my "ubiquitous capture" tool. Mac only! Source: about 2 years ago

• How do you organize information ?

  Now my main tools are - Drafts (for bigger things and portability) and Obsidian for anything else. Source: about 2 years ago

• How to organize random little notes?

  I use Drafts for notes that I don't care about long-term. A link I need temporarily, a phone number to call later today, a message to send to a friend, a title of a book to look up etc. I find it liberating to have a dedicated app that I can leave in chaotic state without any feelings of guilt. Source: about 2 years ago

• Anyone found a daily note creation shortcut that works?

  You can look into using Drafts with one of the Bear actions. Source: about 2 years ago

• How to 'import' into Craft aka capture

  I use the Drafts app for almost all capture stuff: https://getdrafts.com/ I have one action to send a note to my Daily Note, another to create a new note, and a third that lets me select among a few lists - movies to watch, etc. - that I use often. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s fast and works really well for a lot of things. The Action Directory has all kinds of other Craft integrations, too. Source: about 2 years ago