I was watching a video from a well known note-taking influencer/teacher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3dDVtJ2sec and was curious what everyone used for note taking. In addition- how do you approach note taking? For me: Approach: Everything should be based on keyword search I use tags to organize by project GTD style if need be "Librarian style" (see video above)- clip all sorts of things without too much regard to storing Implementation Use evernote for personal notes For personal projects, use Google docs if I need friends to comment (I would prefer quip or paper, but the reality is that the most important thing is to NOT have to inconvenience ppl with new account creation) For structured data, I use Airtable. If I need to display the data in a public way, embed on Medium (see for example If I need to display the data in a semi public way, use Notion's site functionality (not ideal, I would like to ideally embed Airtable within google docs- Quip/Dropbox Paper allows for that)

I am curious on other people's system for this, since I am relatively unsophisticated here. I just use a Google doc for discussions with the Taro team, my YouTube videos, and other projects. I also use physical sticky notes for things I work on day-to-day. At Meta, most of the PMs + engs used Quip, so I used that for my "work diary" and some design docs. If you work on a team, the friction of sharing is very real, like you said, so I'd just use what others on the team are using. Working at Airtable, I imagine you are able to innovate in a much more meaningful way with regards to how you present data and share it. I like the examples you gave, I need to adopt those over time.

What note taking apps do you use at work/for projects?

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I was watching a video from a well known note-taking influencer/teacher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3dDVtJ2sec and was curious what everyone used for note taking. In addition- how do you approach note taking?

For me:

Approach:
- Everything should be based on keyword search
- I use tags to organize by project GTD style if need be
- "Librarian style" (see video above)- clip all sorts of things without too much regard to storing
Implementation
- Use evernote for personal notes
- For personal projects, use Google docs if I need friends to comment (I would prefer quip or paper, but the reality is that the most important thing is to NOT have to inconvenience ppl with new account creation)
- For structured data, I use Airtable.
  - If I need to display the data in a public way, embed on Medium (see https://bit.ly/tableau-alumni-founders for example
  - If I need to display the data in a semi public way, use Notion's site functionality (not ideal, I would like to ideally embed Airtable within google docs- Quip/Dropbox Paper allows for that)

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Rahul Pandey
•Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
a year ago
I am curious on other people's system for this, since I am relatively unsophisticated here. I just use a Google doc for discussions with the Taro team, my YouTube videos, and other projects. I also use physical sticky notes for things I work on day-to-day.

At Meta, most of the PMs + engs used Quip, so I used that for my "work diary" and some design docs. If you work on a team, the friction of sharing is very real, like you said, so I'd just use what others on the team are using.

Working at Airtable, I imagine you are able to innovate in a much more meaningful way with regards to how you present data and share it. I like the examples you gave, I need to adopt those over time.
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President
•Comstock Software, Inc
a year ago
I use: RoamResearch.com
Google Keep looks amazing when my customers use it.
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Senior Software Engineer [OP]
•Airtable
a year ago
@Rahul

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Working at Airtable, I imagine you are able to innovate in a much more meaningful way with regards to how you present data and share it.

Actually we used Quip until 2020 then switched over to google docs 😅

It's been cool to see Airtable interfaces used internally though, that's one tool I think basically has no equivalent anywhere else

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