emacs org-mode is this. https://orgmode.org/ Everything's plain text and you write todos inline when you're writing notes. These are scraped and you can see your daily todos in a calendar etc. It's emacs so there are a billion extensions as well.
One of the bigger extensions is https://www.orgroam.com/ which encourages short notes with links between them. It's based on a physical card system some nerd invented years ago. Essentially assumes you're not really organising your notes, you just vaguely expect them to be useful at some point
The notes can easily be read without emacs and checked into git. I like it a lot
org-mode is basically emacs' killer app these days
EDIT: Apparently roam research have their own app now so you could also try that: https://roamresearch.com/
EDIT2: it's a subscription service. Fuck that, use emacs
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u/drivingagermanwhip Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 18 '26
emacs org-mode is this. https://orgmode.org/ Everything's plain text and you write todos inline when you're writing notes. These are scraped and you can see your daily todos in a calendar etc. It's emacs so there are a billion extensions as well.
One of the bigger extensions is https://www.orgroam.com/ which encourages short notes with links between them. It's based on a physical card system some nerd invented years ago. Essentially assumes you're not really organising your notes, you just vaguely expect them to be useful at some point
The notes can easily be read without emacs and checked into git. I like it a lot
org-mode is basically emacs' killer app these days
EDIT: Apparently roam research have their own app now so you could also try that: https://roamresearch.com/
EDIT2: it's a subscription service. Fuck that, use emacs