Basically when note taking software offers inter-note linking, this is what they do: notes are given a GUID and the links in other notes refer to that UID. This is where GUID’s (General Unique Identifiers) come in. But I would still like to be able to easily pull up a list with all the thoughts and quotes associated with Fight Club. Lacking in-text search, I can’t add all those records to the movie-note, because it wouldn’t let me search (and TAG!) them separately. ![]() And I have collected at least twice that amount of quotes from it. I referred to that movie in at least ten journal entries. But what if I want to link other ‘smaller pieces’ to one of those movies? Let’s take Fight Club as an example. And whenever I want to write a review about a movie, the note is already there. Using tags (or other organization methods, which I will outline below) it’s now easy to pull up a list with all the watched movies, ordered by date. However, there’s a pretty easy solution: create a separate note for each movie, containing just the title and the watch date. Using links between notes, I would then link the movie in the list to the separate note. To stay with the movies-list as an example: in my previous workflow I would keep one text file with all the movies I ever watched and only create a separate note for a movie when I wrote a review about it. The main solution to this limitation is to cut notes into smaller pieces. For example, one day I wanted to find on which date I watched the first Star Wars movie, and Standard Notes on mobile only returned the ‘movies’ note, letting me scroll through hundreds of lines to find the movie myself. ![]() Also, as noted, this only works on desktop, which is a shame, because whereas I do most of my editing on desktop, I use my phone all the time to consult and search my archive. And when there are multiple matches within one file, the only way of finding those is scrolling through the document to find the highlights. You’d have to use global search and then re-select the note you’re working in to see the matches. For example, you can’t really find something within the note you’re currently working in. This is, however, a very limited workflow. On desktop, the matches are even highlighted within the selected note. When using the global search, Standard Notes also searches within the notes. To be fair, in-note search is not entirely absent in Standard Notes. That brings new possibilities, but it also requires an adapted workflow.ĭisclaimer: this became a pretty long story. It does however offer tags and ‘smart tags’, the latter including regex-search. Standard Notes doesn’t offer folders, in-note search or linking between notes on which I used to rely heavily for my personal knowledge base. ![]() Many of those limitations concern the possibilities for organizing notes. That means peace of mind, knowing that I can access my notes anywhere and that whatever I write down will stay private, but it also means working with its limitations. After some initial struggles, I’ve decided to stick with Standard Notes for my personal text archive.
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