I would love to see more integrated workspace tools. Combining calendar, notes, todo is a good start. But i my needs are from source material to documents and presentations. I use currently vscode for this need using (common-) markdown as preferred notes format and lately using csv for tabular data and excalidraw for visual notes. As a teacher and working in different research projects i work mostly with external partners, so everybody brings his own tools and data formats...
I like it because i can open a lot of files within the same application (pdf's, images, excel), unfortunately some formats need an external viewer (word, eml). I try to gather all data to my project folders. With every other notetaking tool i have to switch between a lot of different applications, because my notes are mostly based on other documents, communication or internet research (text, image, video, audio).
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Some of the plugins and integrated applications i use:
- Vscode has todo applications that can gather all '- [ ] Todo's and add them to the sidebar, so i have an overview of all my project's.
- I use Marp (with some markdown-it plugins) to generate presentations from my markdown files (building the files). Using Pandoc i can convert them to Word/PDF files (based on templates). Pandoc can also convert some formats to markdown.
- I can download most websites and integrate it into my notes for offline (and future) reading using MarkDownload. I wrote a script that downloads linked images. github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui is good to download integrated videos.
- I use syncthing to sync the data across my NAS, desktop and notebook.
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What i am missing:
- Viewers for file formats that are not yet supported (currently word & eml).
- Collaborative editing of notes (github or similar is a possible solution with it's web editor)
- Realtime collaborative editing (currently i can copy to another editor, edupad.ch)
- Sync my meetings (date-time) i write down in markdown into my calendar (course-planning). I'm currently working on a ical generator for that reason, also to share calendar data to students or partners.
- Integrating my bookmarks into the work process would be good as well.
I like it because i can open a lot of files within the same application (pdf's, images, excel), unfortunately some formats need an external viewer (word, eml). I try to gather all data to my project folders. With every other notetaking tool i have to switch between a lot of different applications, because my notes are mostly based on other documents, communication or internet research (text, image, video, audio).
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Some of the plugins and integrated applications i use:
- Vscode has todo applications that can gather all '- [ ] Todo's and add them to the sidebar, so i have an overview of all my project's.
- I use Marp (with some markdown-it plugins) to generate presentations from my markdown files (building the files). Using Pandoc i can convert them to Word/PDF files (based on templates). Pandoc can also convert some formats to markdown.
- I can download most websites and integrate it into my notes for offline (and future) reading using MarkDownload. I wrote a script that downloads linked images. github.com/jely2002/youtube-dl-gui is good to download integrated videos.
- I use syncthing to sync the data across my NAS, desktop and notebook.
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What i am missing:
- Viewers for file formats that are not yet supported (currently word & eml).
- Collaborative editing of notes (github or similar is a possible solution with it's web editor)
- Realtime collaborative editing (currently i can copy to another editor, edupad.ch)
- Sync my meetings (date-time) i write down in markdown into my calendar (course-planning). I'm currently working on a ical generator for that reason, also to share calendar data to students or partners.
- Integrating my bookmarks into the work process would be good as well.
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