Places I currently have notes

  • apple notes, main very fractured and disorganized
  • Notability, handwritten, drawings
  • Concepts, iPad Pro local and iCloud and iPad mini
  • Evernote 3k+ notes
  • Ulysses iii
  • Old notebooks paper based
  • Old printouts from school or mixed papers
  • YouTube watch later and playlists
  • Maybe my blog articles, old stuff probably of more value to me because of search integration
  • old drives from college era
  • Bookmarks on safari mobile
  • Chrome Toby plugin
  • Bookmarks on chrome multiple synced accounts
  • Mindmapping tools

Apple Notes

Apple notes ux, ui is very good. I built annotation. Collaboration is easy with other Apple users. Sync is fast and painless across platforms and devices, nearly instant.

Does it make sense to

  1. Migrate all existing notes, I think so because it is hard to find things. Automation is key because I have 1056 notes.
  2. Replicate some of the functionality in Obsidian and force myself to take notes there. Maybe.
  3. Keep using apple notes but set up an automatic sync or movement of notes to Obsidian.

What’s in these systems

  • simple bookmark no info
  • Bookmark with small annotation
  • Web clipping, maybe annotation
  • My notes various things, events, etc
  • Random todo lists, bullet journals, etc.
  • small ideas or musings
  • full on bullet journals, usually analog, but also maybe in notability
  • Drawings and paintings, analog or digital

Considerations

  • can be very messy, maybe better to put in a segmented inbox
  • How to process everything initially. Everything private. Is there an LLM tool that can be used for some rough chunking of clusters. maybe cursor ide in a pinch.