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Comment on Ask HN: What features are you looking for in a note-taking app?

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I'm a huge fan of markdown. So for that reason, all my notes are kept in that form unless I'm writing them in a book. I also use markdown just about everywhere else (Markdown New Tab plugin, etc).

A couple of features that I've seen in some but definitely not all editors is auto-TOC, and the ability to collapse paragraphs.

What I would pay for: A set of apps, like Todo and Sticky Notes and a Notepad that maintain a shared directory or database so I can use Search and find data that could be anywhere among those different note-taking scenarios. And Todo should be able to link to markdown documents within the app set, etc.

: A set of apps, like Todo and Sticky Notes and a Notepad that maintain a shared directory or database so I can use Search and find data that could be anywhere among those different note-taking scenarios. And Todo should be able to link to markdown documents within the app set, etc

Vscode does this with and without plugins.

Vscode does this with and without plugins.

Depends on what you're going to expect.

This Twitter thread has a lot of suggestions:

https://twitter.com/DailyDevTips1/status/1492838765739622404...

- https://obsidian.md/

- https://link.dendron.so/smartpage

I'm going to be looking in to Vscode for different reasons. So it'll be interesting to see it work its magic with markdown.

I'm a huge fan of markdown

Have you looked into ASCIIDoc?

I hadn't seen it in a long time. It's really come along.

Really appreciate your response - how are you finding it now?

Enough to change over from MD?

Sounds like Notion: https://www.notion.so/

I'm giving it a second look and would definitely look again. But it's too much for me as note app. (Many features) and you're dependent on them. I use markdown and a Github repository.

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