In a previous note I wrote about my new note-taking system, Joplin. For years now I’ve been chasing something like a “single point of truth” — one place where everything I write and collect lives.
For a while that was DEVONthink. But now I’m using Windows and Linux machines too, so DEVONthink only runs on my iPad. I don’t want to go back to Evernote and OneNote never quite clicked for me.
Still very happy with Joplin. I’m no longer syncing through my Nextcloud (it died and I can’t resurrect it), but through OneDrive instead. But I’ve got three other containers for information:
- Joplin: My first collection point for raw material and research. Markdown text and web clips go here.
- GoodNotes: I write and draw a lot with my Apple Pencil. This is also where I push PDFs that I want to read and mark up by hand.
- OneDrive: Audio files for podcasts live here, plus my daily voice memos that I either transcribe or keep as idea prompts.
- Vimeo: For finished video content. I also download the videos to a massive WD My Passport drive.
Blog content sits on my web server, which I manage through ./deploy from the terminal. At the same time I’m pushing and pulling changes to my own GitTea server.
Four places isn’t one place. But it works.
Originally published auf Deutsch at reinergaertner.de (est. 1997, older than Google). AI helped translate this. I helped introduce the errors.