What are Reddit's favorite Note-taking Apps?

One thing that Google Docs doesn't do, or something it might do that I haven't found, is create hyperlinks between documents. Kind of like a Wikipedia for your story. I love wiki's because you can just click on the hyperlink words in case you forgot what that term was. It's great for my needs.

Linked Notes is a good, easy to use, local hosted freeware wiki software. Careful, it's .NET framework based meaning it will only work on Windows machines.

I'm sure there are other alternatives for Mac OS or Linux, if anyone is interested enough to look into wiki's.

This is what makes me worried a lot too. My assumption is that development of the web version will create lot of constrains on the development capacity of the team. And then they will have to sync all the features to be available on all environments (not just mac and iOS).

Another interesting project that popped up recently is https://inkdrop.app

Timelines would work. Also creating a wiki on your own local hard drive could work. You can write a chronological summary about all your story elements. In that summary, text hyperlinks could bring you to other wiki pages to fill in more details. You know, just like Wikipedia, but for your own story world.

The one freeware wiki program I use is for Windows only, because it requires the .NET framework. It's not the most sophisticated software, but it's free. I'm sure there are others out there, and others for Mac OS or Linux, I just haven't looked. Scrivener can do a decent job emulating a wiki, since it can create hyperlinks between pages.

EDIT - There's also the Aeon Timeline plugin for Scrivener for an additional fee. But doing this, you could create a Scrivener-wiki and have an accompanying visual timeline drawn out.

You can try Flamory. We build this tool to help people track their research without too much hassle. It automatically organizes the bookmarks you make into topics and shows a screenshot thumbnail for each of them.

You don't even have to bookmark every interesting article you find, because Flamory will save a couple of pages before and after your bookmark.

You can check out Flamory, it saves selection, position on the page and a screenshot - all at the same time.

Personally, I stopped tagging my bookmarks long time ago, because this tool can search by the whole content of bookmarked page. Every word from a page is now a tag :)

It works only on windows, though, as it integrates with the desktop applications.

I've added the windows copy cat app that works the same way as Notational Velocity. I haven't used it, but it's built the exact same way as Notational Velocity and also syncs natively with Simplenote.

http://getnotation.com

Have you considered a wiki? Or using Scrivener's hypertext referencing?

I use the free desktop version of Linked Notes. It automatically creates hypertext links if the words you're typing are the same as a page's title. That way, if you're reading one idea and you forget something that's mentioned, you can click the link and read up on that. Just like reading topics in Wikipedia, but for your story.

The catch is that it only works in Windows because it uses .NET framework. Sorry Apple and Linux peeps, unless you get a virtual machine with a Windows boot.

Scrivener already has a hypertext linking feature, so you can do it in there too.

The other catch is that you're pretty much writing all the background information into wiki pages, which can take a while especially if you have a lot of big and complex ideas linked together. It would be like writing another book made up of just your scribbled notes. If you're patient and willing to do it, then I recommend you try it.

> And the 'prequels' may be good stories on their own, and/or likely attribute to the 'lore' of the universe.

If your story is a smashing success, people will want to know more. And you will be ready! How convenient.

If you're interested, I recommend using a wiki or something that creates hyperlinks to keep all your prequel installments straight if you have more than one or two. That's probably the biggest downside of writing numerous installments in a persistent universe: organization is more complicated.

I also recommend making a universal timeline showing all the stories' events in a linear fashion. Nothing is more embarrassing than referencing a scene in one short story that hasn't technically occurred yet in the other. Then you got to use time travel to explain how the characters reacted to events in a scene without actually going there yet. But then that means they could have influenced themselves to act the way they will after they get there, so then would they have acted differently knowing what they previously wanted to do in advance?

For simple wiki-based note taking, I use Linked Notes which automatically matches text to a wiki page of the same title. It's quick, painless, unlimited, free, and un/fortunately only for Windows because it requires the .NET framework. Scrivener has a macOS client if you have Apple. It has a lot of bells and whistles that are neat, and it often goes on sale especially in advance of Nanowrimo coming up. I use Scrivener for writing the actual manuscript, as Linked Notes isn't the best at word processing.

Or just get started writing and enjoy the ride.

> I wish you luck with your own writing career.

And the same to you!

I created my own Wiki (it's fairly easy dw) :

http://www.linkednotes.com/

And I have simply created a repository of all the 2nd/3rd Line issues I have resolved and a brief description of how I resolved them. I also have a separate section outlining how i've implemented/changed something. It is incredibly useful and has saved me a lot of stress in the longrun. That is my method of documentation (not including the more corporate documentation side of things)

With regards to the position you're in, it may seem daunting, however it is a rare opportunity to really learn things from the bare bones up. Dealing with a network of that size does not mean it isn't something you can learn a lot from. Principals that may apply on a network that size will more often than not still apply to larger network. When I first started dealing with my first corporate network (around 10 workstations, 2 servers) I made sure that I did everything to a standard that was much higher than was needed, down the all of the cable runs being perfectly parallel etc. Instead of thinking of your current position as a lot of pressure and a chance for you to really cock things up, try an think of it as an opportunity to really excel!

The most important piece of advice I would give somebody just starting out, is if you don't know how to do something, ask! Whether it be a community such as this one or a friend, it is much better to admit that you don't know how to do something than to bodge it.

The other main piece of advice I will give to make your life easier is to undersell and over deliver, not over sell and under deliver. If you think something may take a week, tell them it'll take 2, that way it allows you time to do it properly, and delivering it before the time you set is positive. Don't tell them it'll take a week, as if it goes wrong you will feel massively under pressure and look bad in the process.

I'll stop typing now, just my thoughts!

Best of luck.

You might consider thinking in terms of a work breakdown structure or project map.

This article has some good examples. There’s a specific example for how to chart out staff about mid-way through. (Note - I am not advocating or shilling for Creately.)

You could also just do a free-form connection - MiMind has some interesting example.

Purely digital yet offline. I use VNote as a text editor and manager of files, but I'll use MapTool if I want an actual tabletop.

I do have dice and a mini whiteboard if I want some quick one-shots if the power goes out though.

When I read pdf books on my PC, I use flamory a lot. Basically, you can create bookmarks with this tool, and it will save a screenshot, selected text and exact location in the document. I can later draw some highlights over this screenshot or write notes as a text. But, usually having a screenshot is enough to remind me of my thoughts about that part.

The nice thing is that it collects bookmarks from multiple books and articles in one place, so I can search them all at the same time.

Too bad it works only on Windows, would be nice to have it on an iPad too.

Evernote works great if you move your whole life into it. But if you just want to organize the work you do in different applications, you can try Flamory. It creates smart bookmarks that work not only in browser, but also with the local files and Outlook emails. You can later find them using thumbnails, or by any word from the document you bookmarked.

You can share what you saved using the tools you like - just paste stuff into emails, wikis and other documents, even to Evernote and OneNote.

OneNote is great if you write a lot of notes yourself. But, if you mostly collect and then share stuff, Flamory will be way more efficient. I like that it does not force you to use it's own service and you can paste stuff from it to emails and wikis.

My random thoughts, recipes, etc are regurgitated onto the Notation note-taking app (for Windows). It's fast, simple and incredibly easy to retrieve notes. When I feel like categorizing my notes, I add a prefix to the title. It syncs to my Android phone using Simplenote.

This has replaced Notational Velocity, which I used on my old Mac and would also recommend.

It's a cloud service; there are apps available, but you don't need to use them. Before I switched over to Evernote (for reasons that likely don't apply to you), I used Notation for Windows. A great little note-taking app that's purpose-built and stores everything in open formats.

It can sync using Simplenote, but it also plays well with things like Dropbox, Google Drive, and SpiderOak if you prefer.

Sorry, my nerd was showing!

Linkednotes is a piece of freeware; you can find it here. Linkednotes can be installed and ran directly from a flash or jump drive (or USB stick, depending on where you live, might be named differently). You can then run the program and work on your outline, etc, straight from that flash drive on almost any computer that runs Windows.

The problem, though, is that program needs another program to run--more appropriately, a framework called .NET, which is made by Microsoft and is also free (a lot of newer computers already have it, and dozens of other programs need it to run, including several games). However, if you do not have the ability to install said framework on the computer, you can't run Linkednotes; for example, my work computers don't have .NET, and they won't let me install it.

See, kids, this is what it looks like to be overqualified for your job!

I also recommend some kind of wiki page. I use a wiki-type of notepad called Linked Notes. It's pretty barebones, but I like it that way. It's simple to use and the hyperlinks are automatically created if you type a word that exists as a page. It stays local to your drive, and isn't stored on the internet. You can even run it inside a thumbdrive because the application filesize is tiny. You can carry the thumbdrive with you and run it off any Windows desktop. It's like a regular notepad file but with hyperlinks and multiple pages. If you get the premium edition, there are some export functions that can publish it online or into an RTF or MS Word document.

NOTE: This particular Linked Notes wiki application requires Microsoft .NET to run, so you can't use this if you have an Apple computer.

miMind is really good and has an interactive outliner. but only allows importing Freemind files at the moment. They are considering implementing export so I'm keeping an eye on it.

I'd recommend miMind. It's a progam for making mind maps that's very easy to use but also tremendously helpful. I've been using it to make family trees for my world for a month or so now, and I love it! I'd definitely recommend checking it out, see if you like it or not

Alternativeto.net is a good site for this (Alternativeto.net: OneNote), but I was surprised to see how many of the options don't support images. Would BasKet suit your needs?

I haven't used BasKet, but reviews say it supports images and is the closest option to OneNote.

My English is not good but let me try to give me my advice for you. I always tried to search a tool where I can write my knowledge personal and where I can access them a easy way. I tried a lot of tools. But for me my better experience was:

Joplin

Very good tool where you can do your notes in markdown, encrypt them if you wish and save in Dropbox(there is support other clouds too), attach filea and access on your computer or in your phone, it doesn't matter place you are and any time.It's an open-source project and it's very active project.

inkdrop

This do almost the same project above but is not open source, you can't attach file and cost $5/month and you can choose save your data encrypted in project server or create your own database.

I've tried both because I prefer in markdown and where I can have access any time anywhere. At this moment I've choose last one (inkdrop).

Sorry for my English mistakes and I hope this to be useful for you.

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