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Had the same problem. Several solutions:
Task Changer TITANIUM, adds a Alt+Tab functionality as overlay screen button, so you can switch between 2 apps with one screen swipe like hitting a keyboard shortcut.
Dock4Droid, touching screen on the margin yield pop up bar with recent and favorite apps
SwipePad, similar to Dock4Droid
All these apps make it ...
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If you want these items out of your email (this appears to be at least a secondary motivation), the best way to collect and aggregate useful snippets is something like OneNote, Dropbox, or Evernote.
Each of these applications will have their own strengths and weaknesses, with all of them being very powerful in the accessible and searchable functional areas ...
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I am using Opera mini (which for me is the best browser for my Android) and after I select the text I want to save as a note I just click share and choose from a menu with all available applications to save my notes (in my case Evernote - great app to stay organized).
I hope this helps.
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I think it can be unpopular answer and not in the main stream but I think that the most is about motivation.
If you really motivated to remember or to get something from the text you can do "miracles". Of course such answer wouldn't be of any worth if not followed by more explanation.
I think before you start to read you need to know why you doing this and ...
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Zim Wiki is simple. It is not a server solution, but as long as you have access to your "zim notebook" (e.g. LAN) you can use it.
The nice thing is, everything is stored as a text file. It has some plugins, too, like TODOs or Versioning.
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While I'm not sure I can answer...since I'm not quite sure of the QUESTION, I'll tell you how I've handled similar circumstances. My biggest issue is that I want my list in ONE place, no matter where I go. However, sometimes I'll be on the road and out of internet/cell range for a week. Other times, I've got a phone that doesn't do websites well. Other ...
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I don't know Fetchnotes and Simplenote, but I use another tool for the same purpose that seems to meet all your needs: it's called evernote.
I need to be able to sync my notes on my Android cell phone and
various computers.
There is an evernote webapp that runs in your browser, an app on android/windows/mac (and even linux ...
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I was a Vim user for 4 years now but org-mode caused me to change. Here's why:
It's a text file !
No proprietary hooplah, No special (bloated) software needed to open and the ability to view it on practically ANY device with a screen. Did I mention it's cross-platform?
It's small !
Not so much of a new point but an addition to the above. Because ...
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You problem description is a subset of the features of Evernote In addition to what you describe, you can define and save searches that use multiple tags and boolean expressions, as well as straight text. You can snap photos and save them to Evernote, any text in the photos becomes searchable. There is a good web application, and native applications for ...
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I don't find writing down works really well during a lot of my day, including subway, while walking, etc.
I gave up on having something always handy to write with and instead use my phone and voice-recognition or an audio recorder app. Before that I used a super-tiny voice-/memo-recorder (which has the advantage of working where there's no cell coverage).
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There are a whole bunch of things that satisfy everything but the emacs part of this (Google docs, dropbox, ect) - I'm using a mac and my solution would be to use google docs and then have quickCursor running so that I could edit section of text I wanted in emacs (I currently have it set up to edit everything in vim There are a whole bunch of things that ...
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I'm not sure why you include a timetable in your planning, but I find this useless unless it is a task which really has to be done at a certain point in time ("call X in his lunch break", "meeting with Y at 11am").
I find it more useful to mark items on a list as "important" and do them first. A schedule has the tendency to easily fall apart (task take ...
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It sounds like Simplenote would be a good solution for you. It seems to meet all your requirements:
Webapp, with sync to a plethora of desktop apps and an iOS app.
Lightweight, plain text.
Entry is quick. Just click "+" and start typing (Some desktop apps are even quicker: just start typing).
Tags can be created ad-hock, as-needed.
It has a free iOS app ...
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I use Simplenote for the keeping track of tagged notes, and much more.
The main thing about Simplenote is that it uses plain text. This is at the same time a benefit and a drawback, depending on your own perspective and use cases. For me, using plain text (specifically Markdown) is a benefit: is it portable (including to other tools), ubiquitous, and ...
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I use evernote and it seems that it has most of the tag features you're talking about. Click a tag and it shows you all the notes with that specific tag, you can further narrow down that list by selecting only notes in a specific notebook with that tag. Searches can be modified to look for only a specific tag in specific notebooks. Tags organized into groups ...
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In spoken language learning, spaced repetition is very popular and quite effective in the long run. Although, everyday use will also accomplish the same result. For example, in the Pimsleur method, you repeat like this:
Every: 5 seconds, 25 seconds, 2 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 hour, 5 hours, 1 day, 5 days, 25 days, 4 months, and 2 years.
And another I've run ...
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I personally scribble notes on scrap paper, then (as soon as possible) afterwards condense them in my Zim wiki. Zim is a fabulous piece of software. I typically have a page per customer or project, then subpages per meeting or subissue. Zim allows searching (did you ever have to search for something that you discussed three years ago, but you don't really ...
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Keeping the emails in a reference folder in your email program isn't bad, as long as that's where you know to look for your reference information. The "best" place to store information is where you know you'll look for it when you need it.
I use Evernote for most of my reference information. That lets me get to it on any platform, and fully searchable. ...
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You should try Org mode for Emacs. This certainly requires some keyboard mastery. However, it is possibly the most feature-rich applications you can find if you don't require much of a point-and-click.
I think this question might not be appropriate to be asked here.
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I don't have a complete answer for you, but some snippets around Evernote may be of some use.
Evernote keeps a revision history, although you can't get at it unless you're a paid subscriber. It works very well.
There is an add-on for Evernote that allows you to design templates for your notes. I've only read about it, I have no experience with it, but it ...
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As far as I know there are different techniques to remember based on situations.
If I read for exams, then I have to learn it thoroughly with as many repetitions as required so that I don't even lose even a trivial fact, trying to understand the subject by some of the above discussed techniques like visualization, relating to some existing ...
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I've written a little bit more extensively about this in my answer here -> If after a few weeks/months I forget a topic which I studied in the past, does it mean that I never understood it in the first place?
But the short answer for me is mind mapping - after a week of practicing it became second nature to scribble things down in mind map format. It's not ...
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Most of what we read in a day is temporary. If you want to really remember things, consciously focus upon the subject. Most people think that just because they read something, they must remember it. If you take a moment and notice things you remember right now, you'll find that when you think about the subject, your mind mentally visualized that stuff.
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It appears you are mainly looking for ease of installation, and that you have a LAN, and that you see the need for growth into multi-user.
So you might consider MediaWiki. It needs MySQL for a back-end, but if you're running a home server, it might be handy to have a multi-user relational database, anyway. It also needs a webserver, but again, if you're ...
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You can do whatever works for you. If the e-mail organization does what you need, why change it?
A couple of other suggesstions:
Another way to manage the e-mails is to tag them. I do this in Mozilla Thunderbird. That way, if you ever find yourself wanting to put an e-mail in two folders, you can apply two tags to it, and search by tag.
Another way is ...
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Aibase can do this. You have SVG surface for editing. The software just got an update. Now it seems possible to throw python-scripts at all tables to manipulate data. Still have to check this out in detail, but looks like a huge feature for project, data, knowledge management.
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If you've got an iPhone, there's an app called Instacorder that I've been using for those awkward moments, that works really great. It's a giant button - when you hold it down, it records audio. When you release the button, it emails to audio file to you. I've got it matched to a rule on my mail server so it gets filed into a specific folder - instant ...
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I think when you get to the point of needing something with a shoulder strap to carry a notebook and a pen, you might as well go with one of those very small purse things...
Alternatively, you could just get a small bound notebook and thread something through the spine to attach it to the shoulder strap (or buy/make a cover that slips on and fulfils the ...
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Sounds like the issue is with perfection of the process. You need to take the action of the to-do list out of the process of creating one. Ask yourself the following:
What do I want this to-do list to do for me?
What is the best method to present the to-do list so I can quickly read it and take action?
What issues will I have with the to-do list being on a ...
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I have pretty much the same use requirements, and have ended up using Dropbox and Epistle. It's a flexible combination, stores all content in plain ASCII text, and supports Markdown. I use Org-mode and MobileOrg on top of that, and they actually coexist rather nicely after some configuration.
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