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Never used Notion, I know lots of people like it. My work requires me to be heavily mobile, platform agnostic, and secure. Notesnook allows me to do all three of these seamlessly. I have a lot of old notes built up in Obsidian, which I still love, but Notesnook works best for my personal use case - and it's free!

Orange Dad 5h ago 💬 3

I’ll check our Notesnook.

Maybe 2026 will be the year I move off an iPhone. I have a privacy phone with nostr:nprofile1qqs9g69ua6m5ec6ukstnmnyewj7a4j0gjjn5hu75f7w23d64gczunmgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerfw36x7tnsw43z786xdyf installed arriving this week.

Also, make sure to have a #penstr note now and then.

I’ll go first:

Everyday I use this pen to make note of four areas in a small notebook:

- Black - weight

- Blue - spiritual related

- Red - exercise

- Green - deep work hours and revue to date

Not enough blue last year. A nice amount of red in December. Black needs work. Green was good for hours and I just need to change where those hours go.

The tips are much finer on this compared to the OG pen we grew up with.

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modulo 5h ago 💬 1

Nothing compares to a quality pen and some organized (and disorganized) thoughts.

Bfgreen 4h ago 💬 2

Agreed. I have used many digital note taking apps and systems over the years, but still always carry a cheap pocket sized notebook (size of Field Notes but cheaper and better quality) and a G2 mini pen (mod'd to remove the pocket clip). My pocket notebooks are always dot grid and I use them sideways with two pages open, which makes a tiny note book twice the size (game changer).

For the most part I use a simplified #BulletJournal method of dots and crossed out dots. As with digital notetaking, I've gone through decades of iterations on analog note systems and always came back to simple, cheap, what I can keep in my pocket. So right now it's a pocket note book and pen, or a stack of 3x5 index cards as a #hipsterPDA (more on that here > https://briangreen.net/notsu_cards

#writing #notes #penstr

Orange Dad 4h ago 💬 1

"which makes a tiny note book twice the size" Definitely do this. 🙏 👊

When I read #hipsterPDA I immediately thought about that guy 10-15 years ago in San Francisco who was talking about this. Then I clicked on your website and I clicked on the link and saw that it was that guy Merlin Mann. I wonder how many people on Nostr were reading about that guy back in the day. Probably more than I would guess.

I look forward to going through your site later this weekend. A lot of fun things in there!

...and Field Notes were way overpriced, but embarrassingly I used them for several years because I thought they were cool.

Bfgreen 4h ago 💬 1

Yup - Merlin Mann - his HipsterPDA blog post it still up online (I linked to it on my own blog post). I've been using index cards that way for decades thanks to him. I did progress and upgrade to Notsu dot grid cards.

There are a lot of 'productivity' systems now that use the 3x5 index card format, Ugmonk and others. All just capitalizing on cool, well made gear vs. using the damn things. But to each their own. I'm minimalist and a cheap-ass, I also have spent my lifetime hacking things to make them better for my own needs.

Orange Dad 4h ago

Crossing things off a list is so satisfying.

Your website is a great - excited to read that article tonight.

And as you no doubt remember the Palm Pilot was all the rage when the HipsterPDA article came out. I loved that.

modulo 4h ago

Very nice! I’ve been looking into inks that dont fade over time, too.

Bfgreen 4h ago 💬 1

I we start down the pen / notebook rabbit hole, it may never end - you have been warned...

Current setup is one of these tiny notebooks (used sideways) and an Aerocrafted G2 mini pen. #writing #penstr

Orange Dad 4h ago 💬 2

That pen looks awesome.

I’ll be down this rabbit hole for sure. I host a conference for a couple hundred people this month so it’ll be Feb before I get a new system in place.

Thanks for taking the time to send all the resources. 🙏🏻👊

Bfgreen 4h ago

Of course, any time! I'll take a pic of the modified mini G2 pen I use mostly. I've been hacking other pens to fit a G2 mini refill, but with limited success. Started designing my own 3D print for one, but my CAD skills are limited and all the free designs I could find had ZERO design aesthetics! The Aerocrafted pen was the only one I could find that fit the G2 mini refill and looked well built - and it is.

If you're into pens, I wrote a blog post about hacking my Supernote Nomad e-ink pen refill into a better pen body...

https://briangreen.net/penmod

https://briangreen.net/supernote_refill

Bfgreen 3h ago 💬 1

about two years ago I switched to an e-ink #Supernote nomad. Fraking love it. Feels analog, but full searchable via handwriting recognition. Not cheap, but so awesome!

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs80gm39h46udvx8y03n9uqtzjp32r8yrhqpq2hukc9nyew8w7rvhg0dg53h

Orange Dad 3h ago 💬 2

If it was somebody other than you saying it feels analog, I don’t think I’d believe them, but I do think this could be a big unlock for me because I need to write by hand and yet there’s so many notes so many places that it seems like a huge unlock if they were searchable on organized.

You should send them that photo for their marketing campaign. Great photo.

Bfgreen 3h ago

The #Supernote is amazing at what it does. E-ink notebook. It is NOT a tablet, e-reader, or movie streaming device. It can do many of those things badly (e-ink is not designed for that). So, if you're looking for an incredible device that feels and acts like paper, but doesn't do all those other things, its worth a look. I chose Supernote over many of it's rivals because of the security and ability to use it without a subscription. My device that I won and control. Dozens of notebooks, all sorts of paper templates, all fully searchable and backed up, in one tiny form factor.

Bfgreen 3h ago

*own

Bfgreen 4h ago