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Currently I have a "notes" directory with a bunch of flat text files in it. If I'm looking for a particular thing I use grep to find it. vim is my editor of choice.

I'm not a huge fan of the system because it's not available online, it doesn't support tagging, and it doesn't work well for branching, annotations, or hyperlinking. I have yet to see any particular wiki, blog, or mind-map software which really does what I'm looking for.

This might be a good candidate for me to write up some software to more sufficiently meet my needs.

I also have a physical notebook which I write in chronologically. I tend to use a page or two a week, with things scribbled in the margins and diagrams all over the place. It's kind of neat in that you can read it in order and see what I've been thinking about. Unfortunately this doesn't mesh well with my electronic system. I haven't yet found an interface that I like for doing graphical notes or scribbles yet on the pc... maybe there will be a tablet PC which has support for what I dream of.



What do you mean by branching?

If it's all plain text, tags and annotations are just conventions. I use tag: and [].




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