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A personal knowledge base is what I always wanted, but nothing was living up to my needs. I tried literally everything. Every desktop solution. Every web offering. Every hosted Wiki and Wordpress total conversion. None of these were actually making my life easier.

To cope, I made Recollectr, a way to record and recall without breaking your flow. That's made possible by, among other things, combining the search and create functions into a single Search/Create "Omnibox", and providing a global hotkey to show/hide the app.

For anyone familiar, think of Recollectr as an attempt to capitalize on everything that Notational Velocity gets right, and then to keep going far above and beyond where it leaves off.

I like the quotes in the repo for Handbook, the solution mentioned in this article. In that spirit, here's a couple quotes that sum up the philosophy behind Recollectr:

> Quickness is the essence of the war -- Sun Tzu

> Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

And the quintessential: > Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana

You might enjoy Recollectr – it supports realtime conversion of markdown into checkboxes and many other things.

Full disclosure, I am the creator of Recollectr. I've been working tirelessly to make it the best note-taking app for desktop. Mobile support will follow.

I agree with this. It's pretty amazing that Google owns Firebase, which allows instant updates across devices, and yet 10 minutes after I make an update to a Keep note, it's not in sync on my PC...

I'm working on a solution called Recollectr. I've moved to taking all my notes in Recollectr unless I'm on the go, as the mobile version of Recollectr is still under development.

This time next year though, I expect to have surpassed Google Keep is every regard, given their "One feature per year" release schedule.

Recollectr currently is local only, but syncing and envelope encryption (often called "zero knowledge" encryption) will be launching this month.

While the local version is free, syncing and encryption will initially only be available to subscribers. Early supporters will be able to lock special pricing for a truly private and fast note-taking solution for life.

Special pricing will be $3.99 per month or $39.99 per year. Normal pricing when the offer ends will be $7 per month.

If anyone is interested in being notified when this offer is available in the next 2 weeks or so, you can send me a message to be notified.

I'll throw my own app into the ring. The task management part of things isn't fully in place yet, but:

Recollectr - Record and recall without breaking your flow

Currently only for Windows. Linux very very soon. Mac coming later.

It does not do exactly what you've requested, (there is no master list of todos), but I'm just getting started over here and as an early user you'd have more of an impact over the direction the project goes; so if you find no existing solutions work for you, I hope this seems promising.

In the future it will definitely meet your needs better than it does now, though I'm pretty confident that for most people Recollectr will be a big upgrade to their current solutions. There's currently not a lot of documentation online, though I'm working on correcting that right now.

The homepage has a couple videos demonstrating the basics of how it works.

Planned features related to your needs include hashtags for keeping track of projects, note linking, and note templates. I didn't plan to add a master todo list, but you've got me thinking about it. Other planned (imminent) features include sync and envelope encryption. The code is more or less done, but I'm trying to test the base application publicly for a couple weeks before turning on the syncing.

I hope you find a solution that works for you. I didn't, so I built Recollectr. Good luck!

Thanks for the kind words /u/cmeslo!

Right now the search-functionality around tags is not very different from the normal search functionality, although we plan to add a few niceties built on the tagging system. You can certainly search by tags and it will only show notes which feature that tag, as well as the note for the hashtag itself, which is a collection of links to all notes which use that hashtag.

The tagging system is our newest addition, so it's not built out as far as I'd like, but I'm impatient and demanding so nothing is built out as far as I'd truly like! The best place to see more about the tagging system is our release announcement for version 3.15.

On Premium plans:

With regards to encryption, you'd have the option to encrypt your notes, which will affect them both locally and in the cloud. If you chose not to encrypt your notes then they would be stored in the cloud with only "at rest" encryption - meaning they'll be stored encrypted on our servers, but in a way where the data could be decrypted on our end since, but not by any unauthorized party, unless our own systems were to become compromised.

A Recollectr Premium plan is a great way to keep your notes in sync across multiple machines, and even on your mobile device via our Recollectr Mobile Alpha app.

Currently we do not support PayPal, although I'll look into whether that might be something we could support in the future.

As far as creating an account goes, the primary method to create one is via the app - although you can also register on our upgrade page.

I hope this helps!

Disclaimer: I made/make this

Give Recollectr a try!

• Code snippet support
• Todo lists
• Note-taking
• Wiki-like note linking (paid)
• Cloud sync (paid)
• Designed for keyboard users
• Local-first architecture
• Free version is truly free, forever

With regards to Todo lists, I'll be the first to admit that we have some more work to do with regards to adding some nice to have features, like a counter of done vs remaining and a checklist graveyard. That said, I think that most people will find Recollectr to be a refreshing experience, especially if you're keyboard-oriented.

Seriously, heed this advice.

I was kicking myself for months for not getting started on a note-taking app I planned to build as a personal project. I said to myself one day, finally, "Just sit down and just create the project structure, that's all."

Well, I actually worked happily for hours. Addictive flow set in and the next thing you know it turned into a business.

Everything is more time consuming and difficult than you think, and that's before the crushing toll it will take on your mental health.

But it's also enormously rewarding to have complete creative control. You can react to changes more quickly and decisively than you could with leadership by committee.

If you find someone who you think will be a really great partner though, partner with them.

I also learned the importance of occasional, shameless self promotion. There's no marketing team to fall back on. Only do it if people might actually benefit from it though. Here's to hoping someone here does!

Recollectr: note-taking and reminders - Record and recall without breaking your flow

Regarding Joplin for notes, I was far from satisfied.

So... as any sane person would, I spent 3 years making Recollectr.

Global hotkey, natural language reminders, WYSIWYG markdown, and a bunch of other features. Almost every feature is free and it runs completely on your own machine.

Feedback welcome!

> 1. Capture it > 2. Tell it when to show up

This guy gets it!

I was so fed up with losing my thought process in the "capture" phase, or never revisiting what I'd captured, I was losing my mind. I dare say I lost it, because it led to me spending the past 3 years working on Recollectr, which I hope will benefit some people here. It's made for quick capture and effortless retrieval and reminders. Almost every feature is free and runs fully locally.

Hey /u/encima - thanks for supporting our mission and for the feedback! I hope you're getting good use out of Recollectr!

The whole mobile experience from the on-boarding to the mobile app itself is still in the very rough and early stages - apologies that you didn't receive an invite email like for iOS. I double checked and you are invited. You can download the alpha version here.

As for auto-generated note titles - it wasn't something that had occurred to us, but it's something that will probably make its way into the app now that you've brought it to our attention.

Dates for titles are pretty self explanatory. Could you give an example of what you'd expect as far as unique IDs though? What sort of format would you expect, short random strings, UUIDs, or something else? Always pays to make sure you're building what the people need.

It's worth mentioning that built-in note-linking it coming. I'm hopeful we'll have it included in the next release. Tagging is planned to follow soon after that, as both share a lot of the same foundational logic.

Thank you for the feedback! We're always excited to hear from users, so get in touch whenever!

PS: We're working to roll out a feature request board on recollectr.io in the next few weeks which we'll share here when it's live!

You can. We do at https://recollectr.io

This gives us better performance than W3TC alone. Be sure to disable W3TC's minification if you want to do this.

One potential gotcha is that on occasion W3TC can seemingly try to serve outdated (and therefore deleted) minified files from autooptimize - which means that after doing a full cache clear you'll need to ensure things haven't been mangled.

If you're rarely doing full cache clears, this is the fastest setup I've found. WP-Optimize's new caching plugin has piqued my interest though.

I'm not 100% sure that Recollectr would be a good fit. It's an app I've been working on tirelessly for the past few years with a focus on desktop. You can set reminders in a flash using the global hotkey to call up Recollectr anywhere, but they don't display in a sticky-note-like fashion on the desktop. They just live in the app until it's time for the reminder to fire.

I never want to recommend the app to someone who I don't think would get good use out of it. I debated whether it meets your needs for a while before figuring I'd just mention it and let you decide for yourself rather than drilling down with questions.

Great points! It's important to speak to the specific needs someone has taken the time to write out and not one-size-fits all the question.

Since you specifically mentioned people needing an app that includes reminders for free as a common topic, here at Recollectr we offer reminders in our free version!

Although we're about to release a mobile app, reminders will remain desktop only for the time being.

Hey /u/Darkito25, we haven't got everything you're looking for yet, but everything besides collaboration is in the works here at Recollectr.

If Recollectr doesn't meet your needs, I hope you find something that does! I know it's not easy, which is why I started Recollectr.

Thanks for sending that over! It looks like a "safe" change we made to the auto-updater was not so safe.

The good news is, we've fixed it. The bad news is, you'll need to download the newest version manually from Recollectr.io.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for helping us catch this bug and squash it!

Thanks for following up! I'm glad to hear that took care of the issue!

It's odd that Recollectr hasn't updated itself. If you wouldn't mind sending your Recollectr log file to we'd be happy to figure out what might be going on there.

Inline checklists meaning that you can have checkbox lists in the same note where you have other text, images, etc., freely, as opposed to Google Keep where it's either a regular note or a checklist and there's no inbetween.

Viewing all todos in one place is a commonly requested feature and one that's definitely on our todo list.

There are tons of plans to make Recollectr the only app you'll need, without becoming the bloated beast that is Evernote. If you'd like to keep up with developments and be alerted when we add major features, you can sign up for updates here.

Flagrantly promoting my app, Recollectr. It's a joint notetaking/reminder app with insanely fast note search and creation. It's a work in progress, but I'll say that progress on Recollectr increase 3 fold when I had the most basic version of it available for use myself during development.

Recollectr - Record and recall without breaking your flow

Currently only for Windows. Linux very very soon. Mac coming later.

There's currently not a lot of documentation online, though I'm working on correcting that right now. The homepage has a couple videos demonstrating the basics of how it works.