Note Apps

[student]

10 hours ago, jayrtom said:

can you share the NWT marked up file

Does it make sense? I only have a set of German Markdown files.

[jayrtom]

24 minutes ago, student said:

Does it make sense? I only have a set of German Markdown files.

Is there a tool to make this markup file? Surely it wasn«t made by hand...

 

But thanks for the help... I'll try to search for it 😉

 

[Michał]

As a noting app I use Craft. 
 

https://www.craft.do

 

It’s for Mac, Windows, iOS, web. Not sure about android. 

[daydream]

On 5/21/2021 at 11:38 PM, Brandon said:

Simplenote is really excellent.

 

Edited March 18, 2023 by Imagine

[AlexP]

These are some really good ideas, in this thread. like @1MKnight I'm not entirely sure I want the whole bible in it. Adding things by hand helps to think about the items I copy. But we'll see if I get tired of that. I'm also looking in some language tools that I use, Vine's dictionary, trent's synonyms, I use them regularly and having it all work together might be useful. I use bibles in several languages (and translations) all the time, and adding them all sounds like a lot of work...

 

In previous experiments, with other tools, I ended up playing with the tools instead of studying. So I try to find a balance between the two. I'm using my Obsidian during the meeting and so far it helped me answering 🙂 and making notes during the last two public talks.

 

What plugins do you use @student?

Two things I would like to add is maps, I like having an idea *where* things take place, timelines, *when* things happen in relation to other things, and overviews of books, like in the study edition before each book.

 

[student]

4 hours ago, AlexP said:

What plugins do you use @student?

My desktop installation use these ones:

 

[student]

Tiago Forte is an expert for notetaking and notemaking tools. Here is an overview of tools he showed in one of his youtube videos:

 

[Ivalene]

I use Obsidian as well, primarily as a repository for transcribed talks, illustrations, images, and theocratic research broad in nature that doesn’t apply to a specific scripture.  When a point gleaned from a talk applies to a specific scripture, I copy that specific point to my Gems in Personal Study in JW Library and then put a ✔️ by it in Obsidian indicating that it has been done. In Obsidian, I use the backlink feature when appropriate.  For example, it works well to have one note with the name of a speaker and picture, and then link individual notes containing transcribed talks given by that particular speaker. 
 

I haven’t put NWT in Obsidian as I think it would make the vault too big and don’t feel it’s necessary because of how I use JW Library. 
 

I am heavily invested with many notes in JW Library but there is no way that I can see to export all of that data. So I am using Obsidian as a companion app for JW Library. One must be careful to back up everything regularly. I use a Mac and iPad using ICloud to sync and I backup Obsidian to Dropbox and a portable drive. 

 

There is a fairly step learning curve with Obsidian and I’ve only scratched the surface.