My go to way of taking notes is sending messages to myself. Previously with Signal’s “Note to self” and now with my own channel with Element. It is fast way of taking notes, but horrible in long run since you cannot group notes or add tags or anything else that you would expect from good note taking tool. I have Nextcloud notes, but I still do it since I am used to it and it is fast way of syncing notes with mobile and PC. Anyone else has interesting ways of keeping notes?

    • noseatbelt@lemmy.ca
      24·
      6 days ago

      Yeah my husband does this to me too. One time he was camping and texted me just a person’s name with no other context. Like are you about to be murdered and this is the main suspect??

    • 7355608@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 days ago

      Her second, extra, brain? Makes sense to me. Also it’s written down in a place they will probably be ing seeing an above average amount of the time.

    • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      Came here to post that. Such a damn convenient way to send notes and links between my phone and desktop.

      • sekki@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 days ago

        If you are interested try Localsend, its even less effort than sharing via a messenger and its peer to peer. You can enable auto downloads for trusted peers then it will be sent directly to a folder of your choice once you send from your phone.

    • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca
      2·
      6 days ago

      I hate that it doesn’t send a notification though. I used the delay send feature on Textra for reminders but since switching to Signal it’s useless for that. I just want to send myself a message delayed by a few hours and get a notification when it sends. Only thing missing is the notification.

  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    Had a manager who used to send notes intended for himself to our team chat. Psychotic behaviour.

    Every phone has a note app. No matter how stupid you are, it works. But if messages to yourself floats your boat: why not.

    • Tantheiel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      It’s helpful for me. It’s just a raw stream of thoughts and ideas. Most don’t go anywhere but it’s a good first stop to get an idea out of my head. Even if it turns out to be stupid I can read it later and react accordingly.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    7·
    6 days ago

    I too use Signal’s Note to Self like this, and I save links by sharing them with Standard Notes. That’s about 90% of all my notes right there.

    • Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      I believe all messaging apps need a note to self option, make it be possible to enable from settings. I keep wanting to tell people to use note to self instead of randomly sending me stuff, but then I remember it’s a signal only thing.

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 days ago

    More people need to check out Notesnook. It’s FOSS, cross-platform, powerful, and has a sync server that can be self-hosted.

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    6 days ago

    Someone needs to get the bright idea of an app that is a notes app designed to function like a messaging app.

    You can “message yourself” immediately or set a time delay so that the message comes in after a given amount of time, or at a certain time, or under certain conditions. You can tell messages to repeat until you finally address the contents.

    An extra-sinister idea would be an option to set messages to come in like a phone call. Make a message titled BOSS that repeated every morning. That’ll get you up.

    • DharkStare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      There’s a program called Mine on the Google Play store that’s a note taking application designed to look like a social media app (like Twitter/Mastodon).

    • Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      6 days ago

      My phone can schedule send text messages. What’s better is if I use a number that isn’t a number I will get a text back saying it is an invalid recipient.

  • Helluh@lemmy.world
    English
    2·
    6 days ago

    I use Simplenote for all my notes, tags, markup, syncs between all my devices. I really enjoy it!

  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    For quick notes I use unsaved Notepad++ whenever on Windows, and random text files on desktop on Linux made with KWrite.

    For more organized notes I use self-hosted MediaWiki instance.

  • Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    6 days ago

    Ohh, I definitely prefer to send myself a text, especially since I can schedule it to send when I need a reminder at a specific time for something.

  • deranger@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    6 days ago

    How you mentioned it’s a horrible idea in the long run is exactly why I don’t do this for anything other than trying to send a link.

  • untorquer@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    I make group chats with only me as a member to organize by subject.

    Note to self got too cluttered, but it continues as my junk drawer for notes.

    Note taking apps are a separate stop so i will never use them for quick or temporary work. They’re for long term stuff like recipes and fitness tracking.

  • Delta_V@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    unsent emails kept in the gmail drafts folder allows syncing notes across devices, and its searchable