[vinliao]

There's 2 note taking service that I use: todoist and dropbox paper. Todoist is for quick notes and "to-do list-ish" stuff and dropbox paper is for long term note taking.

Here's the step of how I usually do it.

1. Have a phone with me anywhere I go. Anytime I have an interesting thought/idea, I'll add a new item on my todoist inbox.

2. Every night, I'll process that inbox. Most of it will be to-dos, but sometimes I jot down some ideas there. If the ideas is interesting enough, I'll move it in a writing project (e.g., I think I should write why I love cats.) If an idea is not worth writing about, then I'll just re-articulate the ideas and mark it done.

3. I use dropbox paper to write. There's only two important folders: a rant and completed folder. For each item on my todoist writing project, I will create a document in the rant folder and I write about it. E.g., On todoist, I'll have the entry "I think I should write why I love cats." Later on, on dropbox paper I'll create a document with the title "Why I love cats."

4. Write. I don't finish everything though. I usually just stop writing if it gets boring.

5. If it's finished, then I'll move it in a finished folder. It contains my essays, blog entry and book notes.

I tried Notion, but it's too complicated and it gets overwhelming really fast. Another huge cons of Notion is that you can't jot ideas quickly (I can do it in seconds in todoist). I'm happy with these two services.

Edit: typo