![]() What I need to decide is are these extra steps worthwhile in order to use plain text exclusively for my notes? As I see it, the advantage is that plain text is app agnostic and can easily be shared and opened in nearly any app. Adding an image of the handwritten note also adds extra files to iCloud under iAWriter. This was easy to do but required a few extra steps. I was also able to export the iAWriter note to Word and the link was preserved as well as the handwritten note image. I was able to do the same thing with a link to an Apple Note. I was also able to create an Google Doc sharing link as an active link in iAWriter, which opens the PDF in Google Drive. I was able to write a test note in Apple Notes and then copy/paste it into an iAWriter note. Right now I’m playing with emacs and org-mode, but the learning curve is steep, and there is some friction in learning and using another markup language, but it’s really powerful.Īfter some experimentation I discovered that one CAN add handwritten notes and active links in iAWriter. Outlining: I’m an outline person, and would like to outline in plain text, but have not found the right tool for it. ![]() Right now I have two friction points in this workflow:ĭrafts, which I have been using for years, and has become muscle memory but am thinking to keep only as a text starting point right now I have set up different workspaces both for different things and to store notes, but i feel it is a unnecessary duplication. work and personal) or not (all the personal notes are in the same folder tagged for different sub-contexts).Īpps like iA Writer allow this sort of hybrid structure: i can “pin” different folders and work with tags at the same time.įor editing I use mainly the aforementioned iA Writer and BBEdit. Plain text has different advantages for me, like storing files in different locations that may have different requirements (security and privacy mainly: work stuff is synced encrypted, shopping lists or non-sensitive personal data in general lives in icloud and so on) and keeping different context separated (e.g. I’m also consolidating my writing (notes, lists, longer things) in plain text files, in order to consolidate my workflow more than my apps. Once a week I’ll review the active notes and move the ones that are done to the Archive folder. I just have 2 folders now, Reference, Archive and the main folder of active notes. So I’ve been tagging my notes which is a better and more flexible way of organizing notes. One of the cool things about iA Writer is that it supports a hashtag system.
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