I have an Evernote account, but also find it too cluttered. Here's what I do:
Install Dropbox's linux client on my Ubuntu slicehost instance (could be one of the free Amazon instances, now).
Create a home/Dropbox/t/ .
Keep all my active notes as textfiles in there. Have an archive/ subdirectory. Spend most of my time in t/todo.txt.
I'm always logged into the slice with screen running. Terminal 0 is always todo.txt, which is just a text file open in vim with foldmethod=indent: I only unfold my current tasks, and move anything I've done to a fold for today's date.
I can search this with grep (or spotlight from my mac). I can get into it from anywhere, though: blackberry, iPad, or any web browser. The Dropbox clients will all display textfiles natively.
There's not tagging. There's no categories. There's no web clips or OCR. I can get to it from anywhere.
Works great, and theoretically free if I ditched Slicehost for Amazon.
Install Dropbox's linux client on my Ubuntu slicehost instance (could be one of the free Amazon instances, now).
Create a home/Dropbox/t/ .
Keep all my active notes as textfiles in there. Have an archive/ subdirectory. Spend most of my time in t/todo.txt.
I'm always logged into the slice with screen running. Terminal 0 is always todo.txt, which is just a text file open in vim with foldmethod=indent: I only unfold my current tasks, and move anything I've done to a fold for today's date.
I can search this with grep (or spotlight from my mac). I can get into it from anywhere, though: blackberry, iPad, or any web browser. The Dropbox clients will all display textfiles natively.
There's not tagging. There's no categories. There's no web clips or OCR. I can get to it from anywhere.
Works great, and theoretically free if I ditched Slicehost for Amazon.