What can a Linux fan use for consistent note taking and archival?
Maybe I’m just being an old fart but taking electronic notes never worked for me at all. Undergrad (Philosophy/Biochem-MolecularBiol/Zoology major) – class sizes were capped at 30 people, so typing was too noisy and distracted me from interacting with everyone else in class. It was fun going through my paper notes years later, but never once have I needed anything from my notes once the exam for the class was over. If I needed to know something, I’d go back to a textbook or search primary sources (ie., pubmed). MSc (Immunology) – class sizes weren’t very big, typing was noisy, and distracted from interacting with everyone else in the class. Never once have I needed anything from my notes. Again, primary sources if I ever needed to find anything out. I’ve sat in a couple of under-grad level classes with 100-300 people. People actually taking notes on their laptop were annoying/distracting. Most people with laptops were either checking mail or playing Everquest over the campus wifi (or s
OK, I’m not a Linux guy so this answer will have only limited usefulness to you. I needed a way to jot quick notes and have them timestamped, and I didn’t want to have to open an application each time I did it. I found a quick VB script called Quicklogger, which I then tied to a keyboard shortcut on my Win machine. Now, with a quick Ctrl-Alt-L, I’m presented with a short prompt. Whatever I type is appended to a text file with the timestamp. I don’t know if you can do something similar with Linux, but here’s the code for Windows: Option Explicit Dim filename filename = “D:\My Documents\worklog.txt” Dim text text = InputBox(“Add to “&filename&”:”, “Quick Logger”) WriteToFile(text) Sub WriteToFile(text) Dim fso Dim textFile Set fso = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) Set textFile = fso.OpenTextFile(filename, 8, True) textFile.WriteLine Now & ” ” & text textFile.Close End Sub Hope that’s useful in some way…
