Ask Slashdot: Professional Journaling/Notes Software?

netdicted writes "At the very outset of my career the importance of keeping a daily journal of activities and notes was clearly evident. Over the years I've always had a college ruled composition notebook nearby to jot down important ideas, instructions, tasks, etc. Putting away the rock and chisel was not optional when the volumes grew beyond my mental capacity to successfully index the contents. Over the years I've tried countless apps to keep a digital journal and failed miserably.

In my mind the ideal app or solution is a single file or cloud app where I can organize personal notes on projects, configurations, insights, ideas, etc., as well as noting major activities or occurrences of the day. My original journals saved me on a number of occasions. Unfortunately my tenacity for keeping one has suffered from a fruitless search for a suitable solution. Currently I'm experimenting with Evernote and Tiddlywiki. They approach the problem from two different angles. What do you use?"

Comments

OneNote is very good

[lucm]

A lot better than Evernote, and now it's free.

http://www.onenote.com/

Re:OneNote is very good

[ericloewe]

OneNote 2013 is now free, so there's no reason not to upgrade.

As for equations, just hotkey the Office equation editor - it even accepts a lot of LaTeX syntax - which is a lot more intuitive than most shortcuts from that add-on.

notepad

[50000BTU_barbecue]

Seriously. Just put .LOG on the first line of the file and every time you open it Notepad puts the date and time.

Org mode

[smittyoneeach]

http://orgmode.org/