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The free versions not too bad. I've not completely converted to it yet but will eventually.
If they sold OneNote separately, and not subscription I would probably purchase it.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
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Jumping in only to point out that Microsoft OneNote is free and does not require any "subscription" whatsoever. True, a Microsoft account is needed - but that is all.
OneNote for Windows and OneNote can be installed side by side. See here: https://i.imgur.com/pGElovQ.png[^]
OneNote for Microsoft 365 can be obtained here: Download OneNote[^]
Just my two cents.
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I have, and use the free version, we were talking about the paid version being subscription, etc..
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Interesting! How do you find the accuracy of OneNote's OCR?
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For my purposes, 'good enough'. With the front and the back scanned and OCRed, I have yet to have a search failure. If the front of the CD case is in a fancy script the results are poor, but invariably the normal lettering on the back is very accurate in most cases.
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I made up an Access DB for holding that type of information. Works nice for my needs, but would have to rework the design a bit to hold the filename for any local PDFs, since that hasn't been a consideration till now.
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I used to store them as text files in a folder but recently I have been converting them to Joplin[^] just because it integrates with Nextcloud (I have my own private server). They are still text but are in markdown format so I can format the text and add (external) images and other documents.
Also, Joplin has a web clipper (at least for firefox) which is very handy.
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I keep a separate folder for every distinct piece of work I do.
The folder is usually named with the reference number/string of the piece of work and a short description.
In the folder goes any useful information and there is also present a notes.txt file holding information as I am doing the work.
I then make extensive use of Agent Ransack on these folders to find information(Agent Ransack is the bees knees for searching for and within files).
I also have a massive sql.txt file that holds every sql single query I have every found to be useful(and comes in handy a lot).
I am not keen relying on OneNote or any online/database solution as plain text files do not rely on an underlying piece of software that may become superseded or break.
I did once, in a previous job, write an Access DB app to hold this information and make it easy to search and categorise but I now prefer plain text files.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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A Wiki is the way to do it. The key parts of our are:
1) A daily diary.
2) A page for each project (currently '1047').
3) A 'HowTo' section.
4) A page for each application or language we use, e.g. Python, git etc.
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Have you considered setting up a Nextcloud[^] server?
I have one running in a VM that spends its time indexing my photos and sharing albums with the family. There is a fulltext search add-on which should do just the job.
No need to move your files from the NAS into NextCloud, you can add drives and folders as "external" sources.
Note that NextCloud has its own "Notes" add-on and also a very handy browser bookmark manager.
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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I've created a .NET Core Web site which I host locally on a Linux box, it's massively over engineered ( largely because I'm semi retired) having a Postgresql backend accessed via an API. It started off life as somewhere to store the syntax of Linux commands that I don't use very often but has grown into my general purpose diary and todo app, it even has a section used for the CCC where i record clues , the setter and solver, the solution and the time it was posted and solved.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Microsoft Sticky Notes.
All notes are labeled by type, quarter and year.
I've tried every major note keeping tool in existence, paper trails, and even diction software, but in the end a giant bag of non-hierarchical notes which are easily searchable trumps everything in terms of both maintenance, scalability and has a low barrier-to-entry.
I can search and read notes on my computer, on my phone, or any browser.
There's rudimentary support for color codes and markup.
There's no overall structure to maintain.
What else do you need?
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I have a subdir named Code Snippets in my Projects dir, where all my projects code resides.
Every time I do something that strikes me as "something I'm going to need to do again but won't remember how I did it" gets the code snippet saved in there with an indicative title.
Been doing this for my entire career (30+ years). Add to it and browse it couple times a week. Getting to the time where I'm thinking of who to pass it down to.
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I can definitely recommend mediawiki. It may be overkill for a lone developer, but for any size team it works well.
It's simple enough to manage and it provides a decent search. Authoring is easy enough, just follow the cheatsheet.
Our team has used it for over almost 15 years. Our corporate IT overlords have replaced it with Confluence, which sucks in comparison. Simplicity rules!
Cosmo
Jetson! You're Fiiiiired!
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I use "Agent ransack". At some point, no matter how hard you try to structure things, it gets a way from you. Agent Ransack is essentially a Grep Tool, that is amazingly fast. It's almost as fast as google itself. It's got a (Right mouse click) Context.
My Projects vary the whole landscape of technologies, from strait up.NET projects, Documents, Angular,
Documentation, notes, tips.
Agent Ransack solves this problem: "I know I have this somewhere, but I forget where it is"
Keep It Simple, keep it moving.
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totally agree!
stuff in text files and [Agent Ransack] to find things back very fast.
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That depends on the manual in question. If we're talking about the documentation of a third-party library I'm using, I put it in my repository.
For tips, I don't keep track of them at all once I've implemented them in my code & understood them. If I ever need a link to give someone, I search.
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I made some XSLT files and an XML TOC to point to several HTML text files in a folder. Lots of times, I wished I had a Wiki, and tested a few Wikis, upon which the domain I had the test Wikis on was hacked through a backdoor in one of the Wikis. MediaWiki is probably the safest, but is slow, and I prefer having the articles each in their own text file. Some day.
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I've recently installed Dokuwiki on my NAS. It just stores your pages as markdown .txt files - so you can just use any text tools (editors/grep/sed whatever) on your pages if you want.
The wiki interface also seems pretty minimal and very fast.
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I use an app to take notes, tree-organised, on my mobile devices. Started in 2001 with Palm, from 2003 with Windows Mobile, from 2013 with Android. In the last move seven years ago I developed my app, since I didn't find anything adequate. In the years I developed it to suit all my needs: text input facilitation (it's WYSIWYG of course), advanced search, internal links, encryption, automatic calculations including spreadsheets, image editor, tasks, progressive backups... This is the beauty of make your own app.
Encrypted files are sync daily on multiple devices.
Recently, reviewing it for an Android, iOS and Windows implementation refresh, I had a look at other solutions out there - including DokuWiki, OneNote and Obsidian - but I found them too cumbersome, slow and limited.
My main notes files, the personal and current work notes, have about 1,600 nodes/pages each. My oldest notes are from 2001. My job is knowledge and I do not have a good memory, so...
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I'm surprised no one mentioned Evernote. I switch between Evernote and OneNote depending on my mood. It's a bit of a shame the free version of Evernote only allows you to sync with 2 devices as of last year, but I guess they needed to push people to buy their premium subscription. Two devices is enough for me and you can use the website based version in a pinch.
Text files are fine but I really like the convenience and instant sync of cloud-based services and the
feature richness of dedicated note taking software such as
* image OCR
* clipping excerpts from websites,
* text to speech
* recording voice notes of meetings and transcribing them (not very well)
* being able to share notes and photos of whiteboards with co-workers
In terms of how easy it is to find stuff again, it isn't the software that determines how easy this is, it more comes down to the discipline I have when capturing things to add appropriate tags to them and file them in the right notebook.
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I'm surprised no one mentioned Evernote. I switch between Evernote and OneNote depending on my mood. It's a bit of a shame the free version of Evernote only allows you to sync with 2 devices as of last year, but I guess they needed to push people to buy their premium subscription. Two devices is enough for me and you can use the website based version in a pinch.
Text files are fine but I really like the convenience and instant sync of cloud-based services and the
feature richness of dedicated note taking software such as
* image OCR
* clipping excerpts from websites,
* text to speech
* recording voice notes of meetings and transcribing them (not very well)
* being able to share notes and photos of whiteboards with co-workers
In terms of how easy it is to find stuff again, it isn't the software that determines how easy this is, it more comes down to the discipline I have when capturing things to add appropriate tags to them and file them in the right notebook.
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I've done quite a few different things over the years.
I started out with a huge text file - like a diary. Then I moved to EverNote (before it was cloud based). I experimented with CherryTree (because I need platform independence with some of my machines on Linux). Then I moved to OneNote@ which was a compromise, was unstable and recently became difficult to export data from (which left me worried). Now I'm back to text files using Markdown - and images in folders.
I like this approach because:
- It allows me to attach diagrams.
- It's easily grep-able.
- I can separate different content into folders.
- Markdown allows me to view it in an attractive way and export it in neat formats for others to read.
- I keep control of where the data goes.
@ Work supported tool of choice - but not fit for purpose in my experience.
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Long time ago I found a very good looking Excel like grid open source control.
(C#, for WPF / Desktop UI)
Now the time to use it has finally come!
But.. can't remember what it was at all... and my search brings me nothing.. 
Any tips? Links? Something?! 
EDIT
BTW, I am not really looking for an Excel clone, just a control that has a few column and lines and look nice enough, no formula needed! ^_^
EDIT2
Found this...
GitHub - unvell/ReoGrid: Fast and powerful .NET spreadsheet component, support data format, freeze, outline, formula calculation, chart, script execution and etc. Compatible with Excel 2007 (.xlsx) format and working on .NET 3.5 (or client profile),
EDIT3
Found this: GitHub - PropertyTools/PropertyTools: Custom controls for WPF: PropertyGrid, DataGrid, multi-select TreeView, ColorPicker and more
It seems to have a nice Excel like control... working on it now.. (in my spare time of course...)
modified 23-Jan-22 18:02pm.
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