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Posted by Luhmann
Oct 10, 2018 at 08:31 AM
I export all my PDF annotations to either Dynalist or Ominoutliner and then add hashtags in the outline. Both apps make it easy to search or filter quotes by hashtag and reviewing my export later helps with retention. It also allows me to save notes from Kindle, iBooks, or Instapaper in the same format without having notes from each kind of document stored separately.
On a side note, I wish apps that were iPad only would wake up to the fact that the newer iPhones have huge screens that can do much of what iPads can do. Since I got my 8+ I no longer use my iPad, and the XS Max is even bigger!
Posted by Mirce
Oct 10, 2018 at 10:03 AM
Luhmann wrote:
I export all my PDF annotations to either Dynalist or Ominoutliner and
>then add hashtags in the outline. Both apps make it easy to search or
>filter quotes by hashtag and reviewing my export later helps with
>retention. It also allows me to save notes from Kindle, iBooks, or
>Instapaper in the same format without having notes from each kind of
>document stored separately.
>
This is a very interesting approach Luhmann. I also use Dynalist more and more for various bits of info, as their browser-app(?) is really fast and intuitive, and they have quite good apps for iOS and Android. Your approach with hashtags for tags is great, as Dynalist allows AND / OR in their search, effectively allowing you to drill down to your info.
There are two reason which keep me from going full scale with Dynalist:
- my (maybe irrational) reluctance for online / cloud services (I am an old school computer guy which remembers the time without internet and with low-quality connections; only offline is truly always available)
- scalability: Dynalist is really fast (compared to NimbusNotes for example), but how well would it fare with a heavy workload? Meaning several hunderds or thousands info-pieces? How many notes do you have in your database?
Posted by Jon Polish
Oct 10, 2018 at 11:27 AM
WhizFolders will tag (keywords) specific words within your text. It will also allow for Boolean searches of multiple tags/keywords.
In Ultra Recall, you can set up a tagging system and search for multiple tags. Unfortunately, you cannot tag specific sections of your text.
NoteCase similarly will allow Boolean searches for tags but like UR, you cannot assign tags to specific sections or words (I could be wrong on this).
CintaNotes has a very easy to use hierarchical tagging system with flexible searching, but again, you can only assign tags to the entire note.
The real 800 pound gorilla in this will be InfoQube. A hierarchical tagging system has been incorporated into the newest pre-release. It is developing, but already awesome. Worth checking out.
Jon
Mirce wrote:
>On a related note: Why are tag-implementations on note taking / outliner
>applications so weak? For example MyInfo, which is my main note taker.
>You can assign multiple tags to a document (but not on a specific part
>of the document), but you can filter / search only according to ONE TAG.
>This is the same with every other note taker which I tried (MyNotes
>Keeper, RightNote, MyBase, CherryNotes…). Am I the only one who would
>find such a thing useful or is it so difficult to implement?
Posted by Mirce
Oct 10, 2018 at 11:40 AM
Jon Polish wrote:
WhizFolders will tag (keywords) specific words within your text. It will
>also allow for Boolean searches of multiple tags/keywords.
>
>In Ultra Recall, you can set up a tagging system and search for multiple
>tags. Unfortunately, you cannot tag specific sections of your text.
>
>NoteCase similarly will allow Boolean searches for tags but like UR, you
>cannot assign tags to specific sections or words (I could be wrong on
>this).
>
>CintaNotes has a very easy to use hierarchical tagging system with
>flexible searching, but again, you can only assign tags to the entire
>note.
>
>The real 800 pound gorilla in this will be InfoQube. A hierarchical
>tagging system has been incorporated into the newest pre-release. It is
>developing, but already awesome. Worth checking out.
>
>Jon
>
Thank you for your feedback Jon.
I used WhizNote for a while until one day I was informed that the free period was over, so I uninstalled it. UltraRecall I used some years ago, never knew that it allowed searching by selecting multiple tags. CintaNotes wasn’t on my radar as it is a single-pane outliner. I hesitated to try InfoQube as it looks like a kind of app for which I would have to invest considerable time to get into it, but maybe I should reconsider.
Posted by Luhmann
Oct 10, 2018 at 11:47 AM
Mirce wrote:
>Dynalist is really fast (compared to NimbusNotes for
>example), but how well would it fare with a heavy workload? Meaning
>several hunderds or thousands info-pieces? How many notes do you have in
>your database?
The web interface is super-fast and doesn’t get slowed down at all even with hundreds of super-long outlines. But iOS is another story. That is why I switched to Outlinely. The Dynalist mobile app just freezes on me and they haven’t fixed the problem (even telling me to delete data!)