How Notes & Writings Can Be Categorized

• N/A means "not my own work, thus does not apply."

• Numbers are on a 7-point scale.

How I Allocate Apps to Different Note-taking Purposes

Crossed-outs are what I used to use but moved away from (due to death of product, etc.).

Note-taking and Storage

• Course notes / meeting notes that better be hand-drawn: Notability (iPad)

• Diary, personal journal: Day One OneNote

• Course reviews and summaries: Evernote Notability, course-specific folders, and -- in cases that the notes may be shared -- my academic website.

• Scribbles, jots, etc.: A folder full of plain text/markdown files.

  • Synced with Simplenote Dropbox.

  • Read with Notational Velocity, nvALT fsNotes.

Editors and Word Processors

• Coding/writing temporarily - Sublime Text

• Quickly generating PDFs from Markdown - Mou Typora

• Academic writing (essay, things with a formula/equation, etc.) - LyX

• For language-checking - Hemingway Editor + SlickWrite

• Mind-mapping - MindNode

• (Math stuff excluded)

• (Office suites excluded)

• (Reminder and Calendar excluded)

• (Rare-format editors excluded)

Cloud Storages

• Mobile Syncing - Dropbox

• Google Office - Google Drive

• Microsoft Office - OneDrive

• Backup - Box