diff --git a/sources/tech/20210125 Use Joplin to find your notes faster.md b/sources/tech/20210125 Use Joplin to find your notes faster.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..02a50bcbc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/sources/tech/20210125 Use Joplin to find your notes faster.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +[#]: collector: (lujun9972) +[#]: translator: ( ) +[#]: reviewer: ( ) +[#]: publisher: ( ) +[#]: url: ( ) +[#]: subject: (Use Joplin to find your notes faster) +[#]: via: (https://opensource.com/article/21/1/notes-joplin) +[#]: author: (Kevin Sonney https://opensource.com/users/ksonney) + +Use Joplin to find your notes faster +====== +Organizing notes across multiple written and digital platforms is a +serious challenge. Here's a tip to organize your notes better and find +what you need quickly. +![Working from home at a laptop][1] + +In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 15 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021. + +Staying productive also means (to some extent) being organized enough to find my notes and reference them on demand. This is a challenge not just for myself but for a lot of people I talk to. + +Over the years, I have used either individually or some combination of digital notes in an app, paper notes, sticky notes, digital sticky notes, word processor documents, plain text files, and a bunch of other formats I am forgetting. That makes not only finding notes difficult but knowing where to put them an even bigger challenge. + +![Stacks of paper notes on a desk][2] + +Piles of notes (Jessica Cherry, [CC BY-SA 4.0][3]) + +And then there is the most important thing about taking notes: A note has no value at all if you can't find it later. Knowing that the note with the information you need exists _somewhere_ in one of the places you keep notes isn't helpful at all. + +How did I fix that for myself? It was, as they say, a process, and I hope it is a process that works for others as well. + +I started by looking at the kinds of notes I was taking. Do different subjects need to be stored in different ways? Since I handwrite notes for my podcasts and use plain text notes for almost everything else, I needed two different ways to maintain them. For the handwritten notes, I put them all in a binder that I could reference easily. + +![Man holding a binder full of notes][4] + +Over three years of notes (Kevin Sonney, [CC BY-SA 4.0][3]) + +To store my digital notes, I needed to pull them all into one place. The tool needed to be accessible from multiple devices, have a useful search function, and be able to export or share my notes. I chose [Joplin][5] after trying many, many different options. Joplin lets me write notes in markdown, has a pretty good search function, has applications for all the OSs (including mobile), and supports several different ways to sync between devices. As a bonus, it has folders _and_ tags, so I can group my notes together in ways that make sense to me. + +![Organized Joplin notes management page][6] + +My Joplin + +It took me some time to get everything where I wanted it, but in the end, it really was worth it. Now I can find the notes I take and not have them scattered across my office, different machines, and various services. + +Learn about great open source alternatives to Evernote for notetaking and task management. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +via: https://opensource.com/article/21/1/notes-joplin + +作者:[Kevin Sonney][a] +选题:[lujun9972][b] +译者:[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID) +校对:[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) + +本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译,[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 + +[a]: https://opensource.com/users/ksonney +[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972 +[1]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-full-size/public/lead-images/wfh_work_home_laptop_work.png?itok=VFwToeMy (Working from home at a laptop) +[2]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/day15-image1.jpg +[3]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ +[4]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/day15-image2.png +[5]: https://joplinapp.org/ +[6]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/day15-image3.png