Note-taking Apps for Command-line People

In this video I go over several note-taking apps and options available to help you make an informed choice of the correct tool.
I will go into great detail about Obsidian and why I recommend you use Obsidian as a basis for your command-line focused workflow.
I recommend watching Episode 1 first:
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[@mischavandenburg]

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[@prateeksingh6018]

I am watching the series with excitement. I know that building this note taking system will skyrocket my career. Thank you.

[@pandapunk]

Loving this series! Thank you for going through this!

[@lguedes768]

I love your videos . It's lovely that you're working on us. Thank you.

[@kahvyuhh]

We FINALLY have a note taking program worthy of your time! Great series to watch, thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@HamzaKa-f6u]

thank you, you help me now to update my note taking system from notion to obsidian

[@colomeramonica]

this came up to me in the most perfect time. I needed some organization methods. Thank you for your videos!

[@colomeramonica]

this came up to me in the most perfect time. i was just about to check my notes to start an MDA thank you for your videos!

[@alfonsodonotsi6691]

Amazing video! I can’t wait for the next one

[@potaetoupotautoe7939]

thanks, love your videos. u read my mind.

[@beatmix45]

The content that I need ❤

[@Mikkihiiri27]

I really like this. I did not realize that Obsidian is compatible with markdown note-taking. I'll give it a try, thanks!

[@vikingthedude]

Staaahp you're filling up my Watch Later playlist

[@Mike-kx3xt]

Thank you for making this clear and concise content. No frills just logical thinking and execution.

[@mischavandenburg]

Thank you, I appreciate it and I'm glad that my style is resonating with you. I try to balance KZbin out a bit, there is too much flashy editing and background music

[@anonymous-or9pw]

Damn....Never knew obsidian was so cool.

[@Jerquan19]

Thank you for this video series. Currently studying for my CISSP. Needed to have a more contextual way of organizing notes and adding sketches, diagrams, and other visual representations

[@kokosensei5231]

Thank you for share!

[@luisantoniojonguitudindale6000]

I'm taking notes with Joplin but I'm really a vim guy, it's time to migrate. Thanks for sharing with us your experience!

[@pravinkumarone]

I've my note taking inspired from you which is taking notes in obsidian vault and editing them using VIM. best experience till date 🚀

[@mischavandenburg]

Glad you have the same experience as me!

[@JavierHarford]

"For command-line people" is a title I want to see so much more of

[@mischavandenburg]

You're in the right place ^^

[@logicaestrex2278]

Same, I'm building my language around cli/tui tools for that very reason

[@travispandos7179]

I know a ton of other content creators have done videos on this topic but seeing one from you would be great. I'd love to see your thoughts on If you were to start from scratch, how would you create your second brain or Zettelkasten now, Would it be the same workflow you are using now? Would you do something differently? Sorry, just mind vomiting into this comment box. Love the content, thank you for sharing!

[@mischavandenburg]

Hey Travis! It would be the same as I'm doing now, and as I've outlined in my courses. The reason I've only created these courses now is because I'm at a point of maturity in my note-taking system where it felt appropriate to share it with the world.

[@user-gk1sw6tg5g]

very exciting stuff. i feel that ive been struggling with productivity because my mind is too scattered. i cant remember things etc. I'm going to try this method and see if it improves my productivity and value as an employed software engineer.

[@ezeq]

estou no início do vídeo (já vi o primeiro) e quero elogiar uma coisa que chega antes do conteúdo: áudio ótimo.

[@lemessdavi]

Hey Mischa, great video! I saw in another video that you use Amethyst for window management. Since I updated my macOS, the feature of moving apps to specific spaces is not working anymore. Despite the team trying to fix it, there are still a lot of bugs. Are you still using Amethyst, or have you switched to something else?

[@EMRAN994]

im new to this kind of note taking, but it can work with vscode or only vim ?

[@justin-hurd]

Ive seen comments about drawing with your mouse and I was curious if you have considered grabbing a small wacom tablet? You can get older non-screen wacom one smalls for fairly cheap if drawing out your thoughts is beneficial. I think there are alao apps that take pictures and turn them into svg's that you can add to your notes if you want to draw them out on paper first. Just some options if your interested :D

[@berlinsevmarquina2154]

When are we gonna install Arch, btw?

[@shashankbj3804]

Hey, I would love to know what 'whiteboarding software' you use in the video and also thanks for the video!

[@noitamina123]

excalidraw

[@camlx9]

Somehow this video looks familiar it feels I have watch similar video somewhere. 😉

[@arifakhterrangon7030]

Watching at 1.25X ❤

[@mattcargile]

Yeah but where is the CLI usage?

[@BadlyNeedAHug]

Yay! He's back!

[@NullboyCode]

Emacs + Roam = Obsidian killer

[@pepanek]

I've started using Roam in Emacs 2 weeks ago. Are there any downsides to it? So far, I am enthusiastic and am converting all my notes into it.

[@nibrasflint1110]

Roam is ugly

[@KingAthur1]

I have been using org org-roam for a few years and I’m a big fan. However, I’m recently looking into alternatives because of two main reasons: 1. lack of proper mobile support (I often get the best ideas while doing walks or commuting and then I want to be able to look something up or write something down) 2. Don’t want to be bound to emacs. It’s a great editor but I’m increasingly more annoyed by how slow it is and by how un-Unix like it is because it wants to solve every problem in one software.

[@Mikkihiiri27]

Thanks for the heads up. I'm an emacs user, not vim. Would you care to elaborate how org-roam is better than Obsidian?

[@pepanek]

@@Mikkihiiri27 I need to give Obsidian a try before I can compare both. I hope to remember and respond here with more hands-on experience.

[@HarishGangadharan]

Please check logseq too

[@Dus3826]

Logseq ticks them all as well?

[@mischavandenburg]

I think so, but I don't have enough experience with Logseq to make claims about it. I tried it for a while but it did'nt feel right to me at the time, and it was missing some functionality which I can't remember now. Maybe it was syncing across devices, and maybe Logseq has implemented that by now. Maybe I should take a look at it again soon

[@007arek]

I don't buy that visualization requirement. It's fancy but vim searching is too good to separate notes into small files. For me a folder hierarchy is good enough. I prefer to have more powerful markup language like asciidoc.

[@Rengah]

Without having finished the video just yet (enjoying it btw and much of your other content as well), can I just give 1 piece of advice real quick. Get an actual pen and tab to do the writing :-) From the looks of it I think you are still using your mouse for quite a bit of things, get a simple Wacom One or something. No hate btw, just a tip to make it look even better!

[@mischavandenburg]

You will like my next video :)

[@danvin1967]

Could be great if the guys who develop Obsidian would care about a part of there users. I ran in a simple problem that I found out was 2 years old and still not resolved by them. 1. Installed on macOS and created a folder on my iCloud - So far so good. 2. Installed the iPad version. At startup, you can’t open an existing folder, you must create one - yah, great 🙄 3 Found a thread on this problem on Reddit that was 2 years old - ok, end of the road. At least it didn’t go very far for me. I’ll stick with OneNote, even if it’s Microsoft that I don’t like, OneNote works pretty well for me on macOS, iPadOS, IOS and, yeah, sometimes for work, on my Windows PC.

[@mischavandenburg]

I use my Obsidian vault synched across my iPhone, iPad and MacBook without any problems. Synched for free using iCloud. There must be a user error somewhere.

[@sorenrichenberg3313]

The thumbnail similarity made it difficult for me to tell this was a new video quickly.

[@RazoBeckett.]

69th line from me.

[@pedro_alonso]

22:35 That's not a second brain, it's a universe os knowledge

[@n0msayn]

23:02 Grabbing one of the larger nodes is almost unsettling. It's like grabbing part of your brain

[@chowardwheeler]

Zettelkasten - a note-taking method where you spend more time on the method than you do on the actual note-taking. Use a text file and markdown and a decent editor with search, and that's about all the note-taking you need....

[@minma02262]

I suggest keeping it simple. Note taking goes too much into the second brain weirdness. At the end I see them doing mostly keyword stuffing and fancy graph. Not based on use case knowledge. A git repo that store code and markdown can be the most you actually need.

[@notaras1985]

Well it worked for him

[@minma02262]

​@@notaras1985I meant folks who knows how to organise their materials.

[@minma02262]

​@@notaras1985Also for a programmer who knows vim, emacs or some editor. Being able to load you knowledge base from there is priceless. Eternal note taking tools strips that ability.

[@VulcanOnWheels]

Obsidian is not FOSS (free and open source).

[@rumble1925]

Just use Apple Notes

[@chromosoulmagic]

worst whiteboard this year

[@MrBelleblaas]

I am sorry, but this is typical dev(f)op talk.

[@gabrielhammermeister2523]

Please remove your content from KZbin; it's too much gold to be available for free! Good job, man. I'll definitely adopt some, if not all, of your tools and tricks and give them a try. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@mischavandenburg]

Haha thank you!

[@jopaji]

cut your videos short man ! taking to much of time to explain good things !

[@mTsp4ce]

It is a pain to watch you write so slowly with a mouse pointer. Could you please prepare your diagrams and just show them? That would also save us 20 minutes.

[@julianquezada5050]

X1.5 speed :-)

[@tuhin1264]

​@@julianquezada5050i am at 2x speed 😅

[@josebolivar4364]

People complaining about a free resource. I actually enjoy the slow pace. It makes me feel calmer.

[@dorsia6938]

I dont agree, i like watching him slowly build it up.

[@devvv4616]

@@tuhin1264 at 2.5x speed for me loll

[@Ash-bc8vw]

really great video, subscribed and liked for support how good is google colab for note taking which is a mix of text and code ?

[@mischavandenburg]

Thank you for the support! I have no experience with that, might try that out for a future video