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NotePlan
Company blog · noteplan.co/blogproductivity
NotePlan is the company blog at noteplan.co, writing about productivity. Since 2016, 38 different Hacker News readers have linked it 60 times, most often “Noteplan – Markdown Calendar, Todos, and Notes”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Often recommended · 20 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link NotePlan's site for its Markdown-based app that combines a daily calendar, todos and notes on Mac and iOS. Most comments recommend the app itself rather than discussing any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
NotePlan brings your project notes and tasks together with Apple Calendar and Reminders. Plan today without losing track of everything else you’re running.
Most-linked posts?
- Noteplan – Markdown Calendar, Todos, and Notes18 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2018-05-13
- Show HN: NotePlan 3 – Native (Mac/iOS) note-taking based on local Markdown files14 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2019-07-04
- Analysis of the situation in Russia, claimed to be by an active FSB analyst4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-03-06
- Show HN: NotePlan – Markdown and Calendar and Note, Has Launched2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-18
What Hacker News says?
interestingly, after thinking about this all day, I realized it exactly what the app Noteplan does nice: connects a daily todo.txt file with a calendar. very helpful. https://noteplan.co
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on “My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file”Submitted Analysis of the situation in Russia, claimed to be by an active FSB analyst as a story · 219 points
HN discussionYou should try NotePlan https://noteplan.co/ - pretty decent search, tags, markdown-like syntax and calendar on both mac and iPhone apps.
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on “Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files”Submitted Noteplan – Markdown Calendar, Todos, and Notes as a story · 184 points
HN discussionHi, I had exactly the same problem and was also using a moleskine journal/calendar kind of notebook for every day. I couldn't find any apps supporting my style of workflow, so I designed NotePlan ( http://noteplan.co ) for Mac, iPhone and iPad: NotePlan is a daily planner app based on markdown. You can - fill a note with todos and other text for every day (just like moleskin). - You have a calendar with an overview…
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on “Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?”Submitted Show HN: NotePlan 3 – Native (Mac/iOS) note-taking based on local Markdown files as a story · 56 points
HN discussionI recently discovered Noteplan after trying and failing to find a good notes app for years. It's geared towards programmers and techy folk, and it lets you make simple Org-mode style notes with markdown, and integrates pretty well with your other calendar apps. http://noteplan.co/
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on “Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?”Submitted Personal Kanban – How I manage personal side-projects with kanban as a story · 7 points
HN discussionConsider https://legendapp.com/ or https://noteplan.co/ for nice note integration with your calendar. You could easily create a list of contacts in these systems and trigger various events (singular and recurring).
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on “Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce”Submitted Show HN: NotePlan – Markdown and Calendar and Note, Has Launched as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> (I've yet to find a technological solution that doesn't make it way too easy to accumulate clutter.) Try NotePlan ( https://noteplan.co )
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on “Ask HN: Solo devs, how do you plan your development?”Submitted How to use NotePlan as a digital Bullet Journal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNoteplan ( https://noteplan.co/ )
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on “GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world”Submitted Implementing a P.A.R.A. system in NotePlan or other note-taking apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI tried obsidian but felt it had too many gears and knobs and spent too many times fiddling with them. I fell back on this app which is based on local markdown storage but takes it up a notch. https://noteplan.co The fact that everything is in plain text files on my computer is very important for me and future proofed.
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on “Why I Like Obsidian”Submitted Keep everything you loosely capture structured with nested tags as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNotePlan (Apple-ecosystem only) is pretty awesome for this: https://noteplan.co , though their new pricing plan is ridiculous (current subscribers unaffected). The files are all stored locally in plain text. There's a growing plugin ecosystem as well. There are some mildly annoying, long-outstanding bugs like ordered lists not re-ordering as expected, but overall it's a very good app.
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on “Show HN: Emery – Personal productivity workspace”Submitted Show HN: NotePlan – Markdown task calendar and notes (Public Beta) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnother option for mixing notes and calendar entries is https://noteplan.co/
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on “Note Taking in 2021”Submitted Show HN: Rendering Markdown to make NotePlan easier to use and more accessible as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI build a whole iOS/Mac app around the idea of daily notes and now also backlinking :) https://noteplan.co
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on “How I Manage My Random Daily Notes”Submitted How to Scrum for One-Man Operations as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"Putin surrounded himself with yes men." This is an interesting article from an alledged fsb employee that backs that statement. https://noteplan.co/n/3D073DDB-CB0F-4ABC-BC93-01A94141445B
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on “Inside Putin's Circle”Maybe NotePlan[0] can sync with iCloud? [0]: https://noteplan.co/
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on “My Knowledge Lakehouse”You can do all of this in https://noteplan.co/
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on “My productivity system”Looks nice! I am a huge fan of https://noteplan.co . They do many things right such as using iCloud for syncing with iOS and markdown seems like a natural choice to me. What I am missing is just what you offer. A focused task with a pomodoro timer... Maybe you should work together?
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on “Show HN: A minimalist Mac app that helps track, allocate, and plan your time”Limitation in the framework. We are re-writing the iOS version to support this. See https://noteplan.co/assets/videos/new-ios-version.MP4 somewhere at the end of the video its working.
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on “Noteplan – Markdown Calendar, Todos, and Notes”I don't see any lock in: https://noteplan.co/faq/Save%20&%20Sync/How%20your%20notes%2... I use it and all my notes are in ~/Library/Application Support/co.noteplan/Calendar as text files. I don't think you lose anything if you want to migrate away.
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on “Noteplan – Markdown Calendar, Todos, and Notes”Missed opportunity for https://noteplan.co/
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on “Emacs' Org-Mode and Syncthing = Perfect (2017)”https://noteplan.co/ -> Calendar, notes, and todo in the same place. Very convenient to me.
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on “Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?”
