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utterances-bot commented 8 months ago

Jotting Down in Bear, Organizing in Obsidian: My Note-Taking Workflow · Preslav Rachev

I am a software engineer with a decade-long experience developing software in Python, Go, and Java.

https://preslav.me/2023/11/11/jotting-bear-organizing-obsidian-note-taking-workflow/

nikolamilekic commented 8 months ago

I found this interesting because I use the same approach with one difference - instead of Bear I use Logseq, which I first tried at your indirect suggestion, after reading “How Logseq Introduces Event Sourcing to Note-Taking”. Are you still using Logseq? What does Bear do better, is it just speed?

guettli commented 7 months ago

Thank you for explaining your way.

Up to now I use email as my first step for note taking.

I write myself an email, so that I can later process the idea.

For some topics I have mail filters, so that subjects starting with "foo:.." get moved to a subfolder automatically.

This works without Internet access, and it is even accessible for other people. Example I drive the car. My wife and I talk about something. I don't want to lose a to-do item, then I tell my wife to please send me an email about that.

Gmail has the handy snooze feature too make emails disappear for some time and then pop up again.

Unfortunately you can't add notes to an email directly. But there is a plugin which makes it possible.

Overall it's not a perfect solution, but it works.

Some ideas get then added to my working out loud repo at GitHub:

https://github.com/guettli/wol

Maybe I will try Obsidian and Bear to have a better experience.

robert-merrill commented 6 months ago

Hi there. You didn’t say how you get notes from bear to obsidian… sync? Git? Copy-paste? Intern? Please share.

preslavrachev commented 6 months ago

@robert-merrill The process is manual, and there are a few good reasons for that. Not every Bear note is important enough to make it to the deep Obsidian archive. I take a bit of time regularly to sift through notes that are too old to remain in Bear, and then transfer my knowledge onto Obsidian. This transfer is never 1:1 and requires some effort to extract the important information, but is very valuable in the long run.

kirso commented 5 months ago

Curious, how come you are not using logseq anymore?