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?
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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.
I recently did a project.
Self-hosted Ntfy as communication, python bot in a container. If you say remember something It drops it into a text file verbatim. If you say remind me, It loads the text file into an ollama AI RAG and queries it with whatever you asked it to remind you. At the moment it can take a good 5 seconds to get back to you.
Then I added a grocery list and a separate bot that handles scheduling reminders. Remind me in 20 minutes to feed the dog. Forget this item. Remind me on the 20th of every April that it’s fu’s birthday.
At the moment, it’s based on keywords and if you don’t specify a keyword it just asks the model directly. I’m thinking about having it send all requests through the model and giving the model a prompt that has a determines what you’re trying to do and translates that to a keyword that the bot can act on.
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.
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).
Looks cool. Somehow it’s not compatible with my device. Galaxy S22.
You can delay messages to yourself with Signal if you long-press the send button. I also run my own email server, and schedule messages in the future to remind me about things.
It doesn’t send a notification though unfortunately.
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.
i use Google Keep, pretty handy so I can pate the notes while on my phone, then edit via the PC’s browser.
I email my work account because I don’t check work emails when I’m not at work. I once considered creating an automation system for emailing my personal address and having those emails get added to a to-do list, but didn’t ever pull the trigger.
I sms myself information when it’s going to be relevant shortly after, but otherwise my notes live in Simplenote and have for years. It syncs across my devices.
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.
I use Google keep for stuff like that. Available everywhere I have a connection.
Having a number of phone numbers in my private PBX available, I set one as an “audio note” system. I can call that number, there is no prompt but the beep, I can leave a message, and get it in my mail as an mp3.
heh
My Matrix-channel for this purpose is called “scratchpad” - and I use it for short-lived information I need to be able to access from all devices. Notes that are supposed to live longer and/or be shared with others go into Nextcloud.
We are the same.
I send it to my friend!
Like OP used to I use Signal Note to Self. It’s handy moving stuff from mobile to desktop and the reverse as well.
Joplin for long term stuff. Both are backed up to my NAS / password protected 7z archives to Cloud automated by said NAS.
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.
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.
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.
Previously I used pushbullet but now signal note to self
Better yet: Send messages to random people in your contact list who have no clue what you‘re talking about. That way you can even categorize your notes by importance.
