Simple, Non-Commercial, Open Source Notes

[@DaveHulick]

I love how he goes from “I need a simple editor” to “I love emacs” to “Productivity is a waste of time” to “I spent months making this video” in a single flow.

[@quarzoazul1570]

life is a waste of time, you gonna colapse and die some day, maybe tomorrow?

[@arifinmustafa9741]

Well observed.

[@rebus_x5313]

How a development of a small personal project usually goes

[@christinemurray1444]

It's what makes this video so relatable.

[@NatesRandomVideo]

He needs notes mode in emacs.

[@NickCombs]

When I write a thing down in a note, I unlock the power to forget that note exists instead of just forgetting the thing. Now that's productivity.

[@irreadings]

GTD in a nutshell

[@NikitaNikita-qb8pz]

At one time I had several copies of a single-line command in my notes. I ended up just google my query again and clicking on slightly purple stackoverflow link. It just works!

[@byte.raccoon]

yep, this is exactly the reason why I use notes software: more RAM for my brain!

[@polvoazul]

More like swap for your brain's ram! Heheehehehe

[@mikeiasoliveira4251]

I only read my note once.. When I write it

[@toolbelt]

This is officially one of my favorite KZbin videos ever.

[@yuliusseraph4973]

same

[@Temet79]

same also, this guy is awesome... now I have to see other videos from his channel :D EDIT : WHAT??? Only video on the channel???

[@josh1234567892]

idk how I haven't heard of this channel sooner, I'm loving every minute of this EDIT: Cause it's his first video lmao. A damn good first video if I do say so myself

[@AdrX003]

Indeed, pretty hard to find something this level in a subject so specific too.

[@maacpiash]

Same for me. So informative and funny at the same time!

[@I3igAI]

As someone who is just starting to learn Linux and thinking "man I should be writing some of this down" this video really was no help but boy was it entertaining!

[@Floaterification]

After watching hours of videos on notekeeping apps and screaming (in my brain) "I don't want to have a second brain and I dont need a new kettle" the whole time, thank you for making me feel less crazy with your requirements

[@seeranos]

I think it’s time to pursue a career of breathlessly sharing opinions into the microphone while you also berate the audience for overly complicating their lives. It’s a damn good combo

[@ancogaming]

Where can one do such a novel thing? Sign me up, bro, I am all for it.

[@seeranos]

Welcome to youtube!@@ancogaming

[@RandyHanley]

Well-said!

[@uniworkhorse]

Adam Ragusea has entered the chat

[@ivan1445]

We need a matrix chat room for just this 😂❤

[@dbaldwin2803]

Why is this video simultaneously amazing and literally the ONLY video on this channel? Make more content simply because I love your energy/style.

[@montanajace]

Came to the comments for this

[@jeremyholman]

Oh my fucking god you just broke my heart. And then I realized you were kidding. And then I found out that you're NOT kidding, and that broke my heart a second time!

[@jeffreyjflim]

were old videos deleted? or did this one video somehow blow up and get him (as of time of this comment) 11.3K subscribers?

[@agentsam]

How is it effin' possible this is the only video on the channel. Enjoyed the presentation style, even though I had to crank up the speed to 2x to make it even more enjoyable. Summary: Informative, snappy, well articulated -- and hey, some pretty darn good advice thrown in for good measure (if you just ignore the attempted insults; which I donno considering the target audience are propably mostly missing their mark anyway). More of the same please!

[@geor664]

​@@agentsamMore of the same ? Amen!

[@derekbaker_]

This video was both a rant about productivity and also an educational piece on productivity. I bloody loved this!

[@gwaptiva]

you missed it being a rant about the Cloud

[@delvrook3882]

i don't even take notes man...

[@litekira27]

This is the best comment for this video lol

[@PixelyDino]

Are you also downloading these knowing youre not using them?

[@akgamer3666]

I take my notes in a paper😅

[@jm-pi1kd]

​​@@akgamer3666same. pen and paper

[@benoitblanc-zl8rc]

This comment will haunt you in future

[@arfreeman11]

I have zero intention of changing my note taking app, but this video was pure entertainment. Perfect use of time at work.

[@feralmode]

what do you use?

[@Alfred-lr3td]

Obsidian

[@Sapious1]

😂

[@blaze9872]

Damn... I need more of this guy. How is it that we went down the same rabbit hole, but he went down it 100 times harder than I did.

[@uncomfyhalomacro6183]

we all went there 😭

[@wahwuhRAW]

It's confusing how relatable this was.

[@xXx_Regulus_xXx]

same, but I overlooked Zim and I'm in Joplin-Zettlr purgatory. Sometimes I need to write notes on my phone but Zettlr has no mobile client!

[@aziztcf]

How the fuck didn't I find this just few weeks ago when looking for "foss google keep"...

[@kilo.sierra]

... That's what she said

[@ProbablyBarney]

i REFUSE to believe this is your first video, this is such a juicy and good topic and you have nothing but good takes

[@suqmaddiqq]

It took him months just to make this video...

[@Laotzu.Goldbug]

This is his first video, but he has made it 17 times before he published it to KZbin

[@majorgear1021]

First video on this channel. I’m guessing he has had other channels.

[@himagnamukherjee9382]

@@Laotzu.Goldbug I fear not the man-

[@SnackLive]

Bro i dont care about notes cuz i personally suck at taking them. But please, keep uploading videos of whatever topic you want. This was one of the most entertaining videos i have seen in a long time. Very fun to watch

[@FineWine-v4.0]

So you don't know how to write & type ??

[@bbbbbbb51]

This video is peak autism

[@gplastic]

@@FineWine-v4.0The chad illiterate

[@lorenzomizushal3980]

​@@FineWine-v4.0 like asking someone who says they suck at chess if they don't know how to move wooden pieces 😂😂😂

[@FineWine-v4.0]

@@lorenzomizushal3980 Writing ain't rocket science Just write & type what you feel is important

[@singhaxes7810]

The algorithm presented me this video. My KZbin watch history has one notes related video dating back to June 2021 for a notepad++ guide because I was modding video games. Watching the entire thing uninterrupted, the video *feels* like it’s made for me, targeted to me. But I don’t need a notes app. My workflow does not need plain text productivity. I’ve never used Linux. The only thing that remotely referenced me in this video was using iOS Notes. How does the algorithm do this? It’ll find a video I don’t need but it will absolutely be what I wanted to watch with dinner. Happy new years, creator who’s name I haven’t even checked yet Edit: 32K subs?? How are you not a trending creator???

[@tiredacridstupendous]

I am feeling so seen. Thank you for posting this amazing video which lets me know I'm not the only one with a collection of weird text editors and a wandering eye for more. It's obvious that it took a ton of work. It is exceptional.

[@misael3377]

I love how this revives the classic battle between emacs and vim... and its not from a developer perspective.

[@junimeme5626]

So you were the one that stole the piece out of me.

[@biscoitom]

@@junimeme5626 lmao

[@soupnoodles]

@@junimeme5626 LMAO

[@travisgoesthere]

no . Vim is terminal text editor and Emacs isnt. Different app , different purpose. Same ignorant people making up stuff

[@lorenzozapaton4031]

>"I found neovim harder to configure than Emacs" Thank God, I thought I was the only one. I like the speed and simplicity of Neovim but it's so hard to configure (even with Lua) that I keep going back to Emacs. Kinda funny, I made my Emacs configuration from scratch, copy pasting things from the web. It's a FrankenEmacs but it's MY FrankenEmacs. What it makes Neovim (and Vim) harder to configure is the help docs. In Emacs everything is a function and (most of the time) has documentation. In Neovim/Vim you have to dive the helpdocs but there is a difference between commands, mappings, functions, etc. I think if I give it a little more time to learn the basics of Neovim, it will be easier, but Emacs is "familiar". I don't know LISP though, lol.

[@2030games]

Amazing video. I am that guy who writes everything in my iPhone notes app. It runs in my family. My father wrote an actual full length medical textbook in his iPhone notes app. We are truly at peace

[@b_delta9725]

You and your family have reached the zenith when others only look down. You're all welcome in heaven

[@clanzy8]

That's the most beautiful peace of art I've ever watched on a KZbin from a channel with 203 subscribers! The way you've managed to mix the rant about the absurdity of the productivity circle jerk with an actual overview of a dozen (!!!) note-taking apps is brilliant. You're so damn talented!

[@filipecoelho9855]

One day later and he has over 2k subs!

[@krux02]

@@filipecoelho9855 it's now over 3k

[@hannibal02]

@@filipecoelho9855 one day later he has 4.7k subs

[@TheGeorey]

203?!!?? WtF. May this guy remain blessed by the algorithm. Love his personality too

[@SilverSeleucid]

@@hannibal02 6.63k at time of writing

[@mystechry]

Thanks for praising QOwnNotes. I love it. I agree, the name is absolutely stupid. I love how it is simple, not an Electron program and in the end it's still just plain text. So if I once can not run it on a machine, I still can make a simple text file and add it to QOwnNotes later.For me it's important that something works nicely out of the box without needing to configure it too much. Back at University I one tried Vim but I never liked all those shortcuts, switching between edit and "that other" mode and how much I had to learn it.

[@Spookspek]

My note-taking routine: open Notepad++ > new tab > write shit down/paste shit > relish in the convenience of not even having to save to a directory until I decide it's important enough I have 45 new tabs and I do not give a shit.

[@NotLiamH]

My programming teacher literally had >50 tabs open lol. They are a hassle to remove like "Yes I'm sure i want to remove this!"

[@gigi12gigi12]

Are you me? This is literally my mindset

[@Thomas-yv5yw]

And there is a markdown plugin for previewing 👍

[@slight5989]

if i took notes i'd just exploit the feature that brings up a folder tree in your sidebar and save my notes there instead of wasting ram while trying to look around ;_;

[@sachinavutu9181]

This is a fantastic video and I sincerely hope that you continue to make videos on simple and libre software.

[@mikelxc]

I hate to say this but after trying literally 90% of the note-taking apps you talked about extensively (along with many other variants on iPad) and writing my own emacs and neovim configurations from scratch multiple times, now I use pen and paper for my notes😢 it's surprisingly good and easy to work with

[@abbylynn8872]

I can't get over pen and paper. Don't let me walk into an office supply store or craft store. I dream of visiting Muji stores and the like here in the US.❤

[@Pkroc138]

Pen and paper is even harder that this. Search for antinet zettlekasten

[@jaimeFaithBasedOne]

I wanted to say this, I have apple notes for notes shared with my wife, basecamp for notes shared with work, and folder of text files synced with syncthing for stuff that needs to be digital, 1Password for sensitive stuff and my favorite place is my taroko design tomoe dot paper midori insert with my lamy safari rollerball pen. THe pen addict is a great podcast on stationary and writing tools. Pen and paper outlives any of my computer installs, is hard to data mine for ai, not subject to big tech, and while all my tools are ‘closed source’ it’s not meaningful with the competive marketplace for these things and vendor lock-in is non-existent. I used to hang around ex-spies, they said if you want it private, pen and paper.

[@E_Proxy]

And wait til you get some fountain pens with fancy inks. That's the road to hell and being broke

[@mikelxc]

Guess I'm lucky, there's one Muji store here in Boston. 😂 But I know what you mean, the stationaries in Germany and Japan are on another level. @@abbylynn8872

[@wuwubean]

I don’t think I’ve ever watched a video that has been so personally relatable in my life. But also as a college student who’s already being forced to learn vim, it is taking all of my strength to not immediately go and set up neovim at 1am.

[@tonchozhelev]

Wait, who is forcing you to learn Vim!?!? Don't get me wrong, I love Vim and Neovim, but getting forced to learn them sounds terrible...

[@Liriq]

My sympathies. What college tortured you into learning vim??? Report the abuse!

[@morristgh]

​@@tonchozhelevI know there's nano but when you are doing a practical course through ssh, I'm pretty sure teaching people at least the basics of vim is useful. Speaking from experience. And yes, for any of you wondering, I'm that nerd who uses neovim for everything now.

[@pixelstriko1642]

I have never heard someone make so many completely true and relatable points in a row. This channel is amazing.

[@aleisterknight2190]

This is literally the best video on note taking apps. I saw all the other people fetishizing these simple tools and turning them into a quirky life style. I did try to use those apps recommended there but was always disappointed because how much people glazed them to me. Finally some down to earth honest look on these note apps

[@simonbokedalbystrom7011]

It feels kind of crazy to listen to a non-software dev talking about neo-vim setups and the pros and cons of various markdown and cli tools as a software dev😅 Kudos! Great video!

[@Remington510]

Yea, kind of refreshing. And you can see he has been on a quest for quite some time, like many of us. It's almost as if people like us are some sort of subculture. Punks, skinheads, emos, goths, fossnoters and fossseekers. It does feel like a freaking wakeup call to grow out of it xD

[@HorridModz]

I know! It's shocking that he's so tech savvy.

[@NuggetsLess]

I never enjoyed being mocked more than by this video. Probably the best video I’ve seen in a long time !

[@felix30471]

I absolutely love your style. I don't think I've been this entertained, felt so understood and insulted while at least having the illusion of learning something interesting for a long while. Listening to you talk about this stuff is so much fun and so pleasant.

[@gabeslist]

This was so entertaining I kept watching even after realizing that chiseling my notes into stone is probably easiest note taking app.

[@Arkileogisticologist]

It BLOWS MY MIND that someone hasn't just ripped off Notion's skeleton, put it into open source software, made it self-hosted and sat back in the sun. An open goal the size of the stadium itself.

[@aslanfrench]

There are multiple open source notion clones. Appflowy is one.

[@henry-js]

Dendron, Foam, they're all on githib lil bro

[@BeefIngot]

@@aslanfrenchBut do any of them use plain markdown and also have reminders?

[@metternich05]

@@henry-js Dendron is not an app, it's a markdown flavor, you still need an editor to use it

[@henry-js]

@@metternich05 no, Dendron is "an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool". All you need is VS Code installed and the Dendron extension.

[@_caem]

We might've just found the first reasonable Linux user. Great stuff man, I'm hoping for more great videos from you!

[@minetech4898]

The world is not ready for reasonable Linux users (I use Arch btw)

[@MaximumTheMokona]

There are dozens of us!

[@anarchohannibalism]

i love this video because everyone in the comments is like "reject complicated software, return to pen and paper notes" and I'm like, clearly you folks have never been in the bullet journalling community. i am a straight C student but damn do my monthly layouts look GORGEOUS

[@dastyp4771]

@@bobsmuggler9591 for writing monthly layouts of course

[@ValariaJet]

​@@bobsmuggler9591Monthly layouts are a bullet journalling thing. Started out as a basic organiser by someone with ADHD, now you get people who make pinterest perfect looking bullet journals

[@idrisahmed2659]

Bullet journaling can also get overwhelming with emphasis going more on aesthetics than actually getting stuff done .... A simple functional bullet journal which ryder caroll first showed would be the way to go ...... Just a good dotted journal with high quality paper and a pigma micron should suffice .... I tried making my bujo aesthetic and all just couldn't keep up with it

[@anarchohannibalism]

@@idrisahmed2659I fell into the same trap of making my bullet journal look really nice and then not using it enough. After 6 years, I now do super simple dailies and then decorate after the fact, haha

[@Anarchist_Noir]

You nerding out over Doom EMACS had me rolling...thank you.

[@KernelPanic0]

Your voice and your style is awesome. I haven't seen a channel about Linux and the software that surrounds it, where it's just like, a regular guy, and where the videos are edited to be snappy, but the voiceover is well-written, until this channel. Currently I just have a "notes" folder and I use Kate to edit a bunch of suitably-named plaintext files. I didn't actually even start taking notes on damn near anything until my counselor, who I saw for ADHD treatment (it was mostly a waste until I got medication), suggested that I write stuff down more. The problems with my notes are that I have to open a file manager or a terminal to navigate to the notes folder, scan through the names, open the right file, and only then can I actually write the thing I'm thinking about, and also I can't put like tables and bold text and headers and lists easily without spending time formatting instead of writing, or instead of anything else because I don't like writing anyway. When I figured I needed a change, I looked through some options and got demotivated when I saw all the glunky ass commercial stuff, or the things that use databases and do way too much, when I just wanna put things into text because my head is a moldy countertop where ideas go to decay. I hadn't actually seen QOwnNotes in action until now, but I think I'll like it. I'm really not a fan of the false dichotomy in software development that is "you must be easy to learn and configure, or featureful and adaptable, not both", and that has left me hating both things like IDEs like VS Code and JetBrains stuff, as well as the kinds of editors people spend their lives in, like Vim and Emacs. I'm writing a bit of a manifesto at the moment on what I want my own software to be like, but of course my time spent actually writing code rather than criticizing other people's code is minimal.. At least I *intend* to do something about it I guess.

[@jess8766]

Man... so same vibes with this "I dont like tech but i have to use it"... Literally brothers in spirit.

[@creepergd4884]

I'm literally a programmer, you know, a guy that NEVER takes notes and I just use neovim with kickstart or whatever IDE I have to use for c# and Java and I'm 20 minutes into a video mainly about software I won't touch except for neovim lmfao. Subbed.

[@gravityshark580]

as someone not named Amir, this still strikes me in the heart on how accurate it is

[@ellipsis...1986]

I've never felt so personally attacked before, but I'll probably forget by the time I'm done watching the next productivity video.

[@jizhang2407]

Thanks for testing all these note-taking software for all of us.

[@JRBXO]

I browse KZbin religiously, and I’ve never heard of your channel. I saw your most recent video today and your style and energy and vibe are so unique and I appreciate the amount of effort time and quality you put into your videos. You’ve already had a significant amount of growth in a short amount of time and I’m excited to see where you go from here keep pushing out great content.

[@griffinkirkland9087]

what App is he now talking about?

[@delta-a17]

I can't believe I come back to watch this every 3 months to soothe my urge to switch to a new note taking system

[@xayzan]

This video had everything from being the usual funny youtube stuff, leading to self doubt and actual useful nuggets of information. Great video!

[@Tomyb15]

It's been a revelation to me over the past year that people actually give a shit about note taking beyond writing down text and maybe some sketches. I've rarely found note-taking useful as it's something that either works perfectly with a simple note on my phone, or is something for school/college. Yet if it's something "serious" like college I have lots of other resources as well that I need to read anyway to pass the exams, so taking notes is often a waste of time for me. It's either time that I could have used to read more material or simply that I never end up going back to read the notes I've taken. With all this said, I'm now trying Obsidian to see if there really is something that I'm missing out. It seems simple yet powerful and for the most part it seems to not have any of the drawbacks of common commercial software solutions. I'll see if this is even worth it. If note taking ends up panning out for me, I might follow your tutorial.

[@sebastiankrali2547]

Same with me, the only notes I took in the past where simple todos that where scattered around my file system and I quickly forgot they even existed. Then I tried Obsidian and found that having all the stuff i think about written down in one place is really handy and it‘s way harder to forget a note now. Also having your own little wiki that you can slowly expand over time when you feel like it, seems really great. Right now I‘m creating a little git wiki, so that I can quickly look up how to use some commands (because git is hard and I need to google way to much)

[@Tomyb15]

@@sebastiankrali2547 Thank you for sharing your experience. One thing I struggle with when using software like obsidian is that I'm not sure what's the proper way to organize notes within it, when to split off a section into its own note and link it, etc. Maybe I'll have to watch a tutorial or something. Another thing I didn't mention in my original comment is that I've been through a similar thing to this whole "software to improve productivity regarding knowledge" thing in the past before, with somewhat mixed results. I've used Anki a lot for helping me memorize things in the past (it's an SRS software). The software really does what it purports quite well and it helped me memorize maybe 20 or 50 times more efficiently than I could before, if not more. It is sometimes described as a way to "hack" your brain, like a machine that never forgets. Whatever you put in the system, you end up remembering. However, using the software is also a chore: configuring it feels like shooting in the dark, making notes is very configurable but overwhelming, the manual is really long and there's a bunch of add-ons and other software made to work with it that help you do even more or easy note making but you end up stuck in an endless tutorial hell of endless tool learning and configuration. In the end I ended up using it with mostly default values and with time, using it less and less, to my detriment. I haven't abandoned it and I always plan to pick it up again and really learning all the ins and outs of the software and add-ons around it, but I never do as I dread the immense time I'll have to sink in it. I feel like this is gonna be another Anki. Especially obsidian and its "second brain" youtube marketing.

[@mikkelens]

I'm teetering on the edge of the nvim/emacs rabbithole (already know all the most important vim binds) and started using Obsidian for uni (just started) and wow so far note taking has been way better than anything I've ever tried. Obsidian might be too fancy and bloated for this person, but for someone who is used to VSCode, its drawbacks are far less noticable. I'm going to lean more into nvim (probably?) anyways for software dev, but it's nice to see someone comparing all of these in this way. I hope Obsidian works out for both us in the meantime!

[@BakrAli10]

Updates? How was your experience with Obsidian?

[@adensmith8553]

Dude this video rocks, your energy is off the charts and most of all I can tell you enjoyed the process of looking for a good notes taker and understanding the process. The answer is there's no answer you have to pick one and go.

[@Community-Compute]

Such a good video! One note on the Zim table editor -- I agree, the lack of tabbing between cells is maddening. I just discovered that you can just write out the table in plain-text, enclosing each entry with '|' characters, and then when you're done, press CTRL + R, and it will convert the plain-text to a table widget (and format the plain-text in the file for you). Pretty cool.

[@forestthefish]

I have never felt such a potent combination of being seen, understood, empathized with, and vindicated while also being completely called out and brutalized. Well played sir. Well played.

[@madwilliamflint]

I ended up writing my own. I use a simple python based wiki processor. I have a normal old-school wiki web interface. I also use emacs wiki-mode to edit the repo. Then there's the script that generates my (static) website from the wiki repo (which is all in a single directory.) Works a treat.

[@HannahFantasia]

Would you mind sharing the source? I'm interested :)

[@tdq11]

@@HannahFantasia +1

[@tigerdalandan]

​@@HannahFantasia+1

[@ricardodlce]

Drop

[@Honzecki]

This is a wonderful video, can't believe that you're just on 95 subscribers

[@fuzzymuffin9445]

Check again.

[@vikingthedude]

490

[@krispyBacon68]

962

[@naptimusnapolyus1227]

1.1K

[@galisma]

1,22k

[@ahmedabuharthieh579]

How do you have such amazing presentation on your first video uploaded? The simple editing + your voiceover made the video so engaging and surprisingly educational. Good work!

[@Woolong-ql1jh]

I love my emacs, but pen and paper are the most productive tools. Very snappy, simple, intuitive, and free as in freedom.

[@migsy1]

@@morning-lp3zbthat’s why they said “free as in freedom”, and not “free as in free hot dogs”.

[@rulercostax]

@@morning-lp3zb Free as in Freedom, not Free as in free beer 🍻

[@thesenamesaretaken]

The best part of written notes is that my terrible handwriting makes it its own encryption protocol

[@MIchaelArlowe]

I used Zim in college, it’s pretty rad and the markup is simple enough that you can use it while taking notes. The big weakness is that the markup it uses is custom so importing your notes into a new software will require some manual fixing.

[@pedrobettt]

From the style and the quality of presentation I assumed this was a hidden gem of a channel that I was going to immediately binge through. I hope you take that as the massive compliment I mean it as, and that you make more videos at some point if you feel like it.

[@stainlessdroid3249]

I'been down that rabbit hole not that long ago. I ended up buying a pack of post-it sticky notes. I love it. It is the most convenient way of keeping track of everything for me. My entire room looks like a mad conspiracy wall. No encryption, but it's not like any person has or would ever enter my room anyways.

[@kickthejetengine]

Please god keep making videos. I loved this. All of it. The tone. The subject matter. Was bummed to see you didn’t yet have a backlog of videos I could binge instead of being productive

[@casperdewith]

14:45 _Fun is not a productivity metric, but life is short._ What a lovely statement. You made me smile.

[@shahidkamal]

I've no idea why KZbin recommended this video to me. I'm so, so glad that it did, because brother, you speak my language. Superb video. Subscribed. And I will share too.

[@polic72andDrD3ath]

This video is amazing; I was shocked to see you only had 67 subs, until now I realized I am everything you said in the video...Keep it up!

[@DavidLane-enaLdivaD]

Agreed that this is me as well and I'm more nervous than ever now. It's one thing to hope to meet the like-minded. It's quite another to actually do so.

[@aamira]

When I was watching this video, I kept feeling more and more like it was made for me. Literally everything I was going to think was going to be addressed in this video. It's perfect. I really want to see more videos from you. Also can I just say how eerie that ending was considering my name (Aamir) and the fact that I just mentioned feeling like the video was made for me? Surreal experience.

[@DaVinc-hi7hd]

you are female version of amir !

[@Roobiekun]

Okay, but did you get stuff done after the video?😂

[@fastjack2792]

@@Roobiekunmy bet: trying 3 different note-taking tools before switching to actual physical Zettelkasten :D

[@susanpinochet]

I loved your reference to 70s key combos, and while I know a few people had terminals in the 70s, most of us did not. We were using punch cards and waiting a whole day for our printouts to come back. That's the sort of experience that makes EMACS into dream productivity software. 🤣

[@eclipsenow5431]

HOLY COW! Again? 12:47 You just showed the "Stop procrastinating guy" I was JUST looking up in my Notion to try and share the link with you when you were raving about the apple notes thing. The irony? I couldn't find the link because I can't remember where I stored it in my Notion! Ha ha. Anyway - I would probably go with your choice but for the fact that I'm useless at "Do it yourself" hosting and security stuff. Cheers for a great rant back to sanity man! You earned that like.

[@wbdill]

Holy shit dude! You need to be doing voice over work! There is absolutely no way this was your fist YT video. The emotional rants are

[@NotesNNotes]

20:27 has me in tears 😂 most relatable video I have ever watched in my life

[@CloverCrage]

This is wonderful. Please keep doing videos like this! Unless this is an alternate account, you seem to have nailed a pretty awesome "thing" going on here with your first video, I can see an extremely bright future here if you ever decided to continue doing this youtube thing. Wish you best of luck!

[@neonneon892]

This video made me feel better about my flat folder full of text files which is organized by sorting the files by date.

[@Antassium]

It's basic, but it works okay 🤷‍♂️

[@KingAthur1]

I have never switched back and forth from being offended to being entertained so often in half an hour. Subscribed

[@brionlund2467]

I just want to stop and appreciate the fact that you can say hierarchical so many times without stumbling even once.

[@fuzzymuffin9445]

I'm still playing this game, and now you're making me really want to use Emacs again, and I don't know how to feel about that. Also, that subscriber skyrocket is well-deserved.

[@Darklor_WCF]

Its not 1978. Dont use emacs. That is silly. Emacs and vim are absolute garbage pieces of outdated trash software promulgated only by boomers who are sad they cant get a job because they are only proficient in FORTRAN

[@Maniac-007]

Never got roasted so badly by a KZbinr in my entire life. But thank you for the video 😂

[@GoshdarnCat]

Thank you so much for going down this massive rabbit hole, so I don’t have to! This was way more entertaining and informative than I could of ever expected from a topic like this.

[@TheBenJiles]

"Years of software abuse" and "can't dismiss a notification without opening the terminal and stack overflow" is a perfect description of using a daily Linux machine. Lol

[@realaccount2000]

I think this one of my favorite KZbin videos ever… Please make more videos so I can waste more time, bro.

[@Music_Pixels]

as a non programmer who uses evernote for like grocery lists: this was very entertaining and i will never use any of these programs. But damn this was fun to watch! Well done!!

[@missPhos3]

Same. I went from Google keeps > Evernote > and finally Notion. While Notion was the winner of them all as it let me to customize a lot of pages including organizing my 50+ notes for each category and a mini wiki, it is really slow and slog to work with over time unfortunately.

[@florianjenn9295]

I used Evernote on my phones for years and it's gotten slower and slower and slower to the point of having to open the shopping list before entering the supermarket to be able to read it before arriving at the checkout

[@tonibat59]

Evernote is recently gotten fast again. Buy boy they've taken to violate your privacy - they're spyware now, as everyone else. They've ended up like all major soft vendors - but worse! They make the money from BOTH your monthly payments AND from selling your privacy. And yes, they likely get a tip from Goog when they get you to trust 'them'.

[@naptimusnapolyus1227]

this is officially one of my favorite KZbin channels, so wholesome 🗿

[@anneshepard]

Getting this in my recommendations 3 days after finally using Notion seriously for studies 🤡 Thanks

[@vaisakh_km]

😅 one recommendation... do not switch note taking apps.. stick with notion even if you feel it's bad atleast stick with it for 6 months... i spend past few years due to shiny new apps.. now on neorg... and i can assure that there is no perfect app.. (neorg has potential, but not there yet...)

[@CoasterMan13Official]

I've used Joplin for my notes and it's great. But the ones you talk about in this vid are really good, as I've tried them myself. Edit: as for my personal notes, I just use text files, and if I ever need a physical copy of them, I print them out.

[@ericbarlow6772]

I used emacs in college but I’m GenX, so I used Notepad++ when I worked as a software developer and I just needed to fix a small piece of code. In college we had Sun Sparq stations so emacs was a lot better for me to edit my C/C++ code since I couldn’t stand VI and it’s successor Vim. Granted I graduated 21 years ago and have been in Infosec for 15 years. I’m transitioning to VS Code as my code editor for some passion projects. When it comes to notes, I use pad and paper in bound notebooks. Like I said, I’m GenX.

[@AllelineNguyen]

Dude ... I want to see an an annual update of this video. I didn't know half of the editors you covered, and I'm glad that I know about them now.

[@kylenoel5056]

The passion in this video is unmatched and I am so here for it

[@playerlala5673]

I was getting ready to binge through your entire channel in a day and really surprised that you don't have decades of experience and millions of subscribers. Holy shit, how is you first video this high quality

[@brawnstein]

I had the most comical experience watching this video. I agree with almost everything this video has to say, so i tried qownnotes and realized it does not come with LaTeX formatting out of the box and after watching a 30min vid I went back to Obsidian. Excellent! You earned a sub man, waiting for more vids.

[@elinoamrichter162]

this might be the realest video on this subject ever made

[@Svyatoclav]

I'm tired of Google Keep 5 years ago. Then I'm tired of notes in Sublime Text 3 years ago. Then I'm tired of Standard Notes 2 years ago. Then I'm tired of Logseq about 3 months ago. Now I'm practice my Vim skills and ricing my own Nvim config... Also thanks for video: It is EXACTLY what I personally think and want from content creators! Great job.

[@appuser]

Obsidian is close to perfect, and you can use it a way that doesn't even require the Obsidian software (in case they become evil), but it's nice that you explored everything else, and things I've never heard of. Subbed. Best, most thorough, most human take.

[@oz_jones]

Yeah, markdown is nice that way. Future (and past) -proof.

[@JoniniTheChickenNugget]

Was about to say this haha, obsidian is completely local (if you don't use their paid cloud)

[@gus2603]

Obsidian is not foss, huge deal breaker for some of us.

[@blockbox2]

@@gus2603 is obsidian safe

[@ssaammii]

@@gus2603 Because the company might take it in an undersirable direction or for security?

[@kalyanoliveira3224]

I don’t even take notes that frequently. I just watch this video every so often for its pure entertainment value.

[@junimeme5626]

This video is so well made and hilarious as well. I felt so called out throughout this. I love the no BS takes as well, super super refreshing

[@wayneyoung6225]

As a vi/vim/neovim user who's wife is deep into emacs and orgmode, thank you. This was both entertaining, informative, and spot on.

[@Err-G]

I love how the video starts with Notion, Obsidian, Evernote and ends with Emacs, NeoVim, NextVi, vis...

[@Wingedmagician]

Isn’t it great 😂

[@charactername263]

Tags as a feature becomes absolutely huge when you are working on a non-trivial project where you might need a decent amount of documentation or notes, and where some things might be related to two fields / parts of the product, or areas of knowledge. At that point, a tree graph / notes as nodes graph is insufficient and having tags becomes absolutely heavenly for just needing to look for documents that are related to a topic, regardless of which section of the wiki / whatever they're in. Because sometimes, the wiki tree just isn't good enough. I honestly didn't know why I was watching a random video about note taking software at 9pm on a workday when I just finished at 8pm and need a shower, but I realize now that god sent me to this video for a reason.

[@hamadrehman853]

Fun is not a productivity metric, But life is short. Everyone needs to hear this once

[@borisbadinoff1291]

5 stars for this video on both common sense and entertainment scale. I probably spent more time watching note taking tutorials than I ever spent reviewing, let alone organizing my notes. 👍

[@joshuapettus6973]

Wow, suddenly I feel like I'm not alone. A little while ago I was lamenting all my notes were in a unique (even though open source) format and if the app I was using ever stopped existing, I'd be hosed. So I went through the trouble of finding an app that just uses text files and moving everything over. In the back of my mind I thought I was being a little crazy, but It's so nice to know that there are people who also worry about vendor lock-in.

[@KrzOstr]

Your first video and you nailed it. It is edgy but never too much. Surfing the optimal flow on the border between educational and funny.

[@LudoTechWorld]

I don't care about productivity, I just want fun and take notes. So I use Neovim, I change my config constantly, and of course I take notes on paper that I loose or forget ^^ Great video!

[@ArtemidorosEuthymius]

Are you writing notes in plaintext, or in some markup language?

[@mikkelens]

@@ArtemidorosEuthymius imagine writing paper notes in markup language. Now THATS dedication

[@Nina-cd2eh]

@@mikkelens Doesn't take much dedication to use Markdown. It's just a more readable txt format, and editors can easily translate it live to even more readable html elements

[@Ozzymand]

This channel is amazing, it's amazing that you only have 555 subs when your video quality is so good!

[@c4llv07e]

It is growing way too fast.

[@defiresearchers]

I love this video, this is one of the best videos about notes applications, funny honest presentation, thank you for the reminders about productivity :)

[@MarkEichin]

Possibly the most self-aware productivity/note-taking video I have ever seen. As someone who went from emacs to twiki to big files to emacs to zettlr to logseq to emacs again... I will look at a couple of the things you've mentioned and then swear off note-taking videos for at least a month (even if my name isn't Amir :-)

[@nicholasmascioni3333]

Followed this really cool guide this summer on how to make a barebones text editor in ~1000 lines of C. Not a lot of functionality but it does feel really nice taking down notes on something you made from scratch.

[@Eldarlll]

How this guide is called if you don't mind?

[@nicholasmascioni3333]

@@Eldarlll It’s called kilo, I followed the guide on snaptoken

[@hikingpete]

Did this video really just come out of nowhere? No backlog? You must have pruned some videos - this was good.

[@soda3185]

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this guy has a talent for making videos. Even though it's 30mins long, you didn't waste our time at all (the *TOTAL* opposite of that 1 hour video about "obsidian bad, use this meme ai tool instead"). Great pace, amazing humor, nice rambling. 10/10 would procrastinate watching it again 👍

[@Gabifuertes]

30 minutes? I just blinked!! You are right, pacing in this video is outstanding!

[@rulercostax]

wait what? 30 minutes ??? wtf this is crazy

[@earthling_parth]

Instant subscribe! Inlove watching these passionate fun with IT tools videos. Yes, I am not getting work done, anyone reading this, this is a cry for help!

[@LaneBeScrolling]

“Anyway, I hate software, I hate computers” So you are a developer!