Note Taking - What Do You Use?

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I love taking notes. I hate having a million pieces of paper on my desk... which often get lost and/or dirty.

What programs do you use for taking notes?
 


I always keep a physical notepad in front of me to jot down random thoughts and sketches... but I also keep a notes.txt file that I keep urls, un/pws, and other random more important thoughts.
 
kyleirwin said:
I always keep a physical notepad in front of me to jot down random thoughts and sketches... but I also keep a notes.txt file that I keep urls, un/pws, and other random more important thoughts.
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Ditto, as well as post it notes around my monitor
 
Tyler said:
Sorry, that was just my attempt at joining in on the WF style of posting. But I'm nice, so I'd like to apologize :)
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You're welcome, and your blog is kinda cool too. But how did you get that reputation with 23 posts!?

I use pspad for notes, it's like an enhanced notepad.
 
Sticky Notes on google homepage. Great for taking notes on the laptop and viewing again on the desktop w/out having to do ANYTHING. I also have a yellow notepad in front of me, I love writing on yellow more than white... go figure? Also I use .txt files to write quick notes or more indepth stuff I need to get done. 3x5 yellow sticky notes (the real ones) are also all over the place.
 
I have a mind like a steal trap, I remember everything, now were did I put my car keys? seriously though, writing stuff down is great, better than the ajax widget stuff online.
 
I used to write notes on paper, then realized it was a horrible idea, because it made them much less useful as I could not search through them or even read them half the time.

I have thousands of notepad txt files now, some of them several megs with notes, ideas and to-do. Not the most organized, but I can ultimately find anything that a made a note about fairly easy, so from that standpoint is useful. And nothing gets lost.
 
I still use a notebook and pen. Just this year I got in the habit of retyping everything in word and putting it in a folder, usually about once a week - just to keep everything nice and tidy :) .

I would just cut out the middle man and go right to the computer, but it's hard to pull out a laptop during meetings - and a lot of people find it distracting.
 
If I'm away from the computer I use some paper and a pen then I type it in a word document later. If I'm at the computer I just use word.
 
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