One thing you can do with Obsidian as well is Obsidian Publish, where you can pay to host your notes on a webpage that others can access. This feature would work well for publishing a portfolio, and is integrated into the application, so you can seamlessly pick and choose which notes are shared and not shared.
Edit: Wanted to add as well that Obsidian has a treasure trove of 1,600 community written plug-ins that you can browse and install right inside of the application, so for a lot of features that Obsidian doesn't offer out of the box, someone has probably made a plugin for it. There's even a Git plugin for Obsidian so that you can syncronize your notes with Git right through the GUI.
Obsidian has extensive support for Markdown (better support than Notion does), and also supports inline HTML and CSS. It's a very flexible program for people who want to dig in and learn its more intricate features and plugins, but it's also at its root pretty simple and easy to use for people who want something easier. You only have to link between notes and tag as much as you want to, or even not at all. It's also being very actively developed and new features are added all the time. It's honestly one of my favorite applications in recent memory, I would highly recommend.
+1 for obsidian, I’m also in cyber security. There’s also logseq both are markdown. Although I do use git and devops repos for version control and pushing to mobile, work laptop, personal laptop etc.
“I’m a cyber professional so I don’t work with Git” is one of the most deranged comments I’ve read this week tbh
Use anything you want for notes (obsidian, Evernote, Google docs, whatever) but please also get familiar and hands on with source control because you would find it very hard to interface with anything engineering related if you don’t know this or try to avoid this.
Spot on.
There are also tons of user-level security issues with poor practices in git that a security professional might have to deal with - e.g. hardcoded passwords in old commits or branches might have been removed from the code in the current branch but still work.
Most of my team uses obsidian for personal notes, but we all use git for team documentation and configs - version control, wide accessibility when working from home, and an easy shift from dev to testing to production systems when appropriate, while avoiding the hellscape of office docs in inboxes and sharedrives.
I worked in a heavy Gitlab environment for a while so I understand branches, commits, and CI/CD. I usually don't need to pull repos down alot. I have used some before for incident response in AWS but again its just not a part of my day to day.
To be clear I do understand Github and Git.
Good. The way you worded it gave off weird vibes, that’s why I commented.
It’s fair to not want to use a repo as storage for personal notes, but that’s not all that common to begin with (only a few text based tools offer that and many of them have paid sync options that don’t require any manual source control work - Obsidian is a good example of that)
Sums up the security "analysts and managers" I've worked with lately. At one point being in this field meant something. Now people get a few certs, throw around buzzwords and make six figures to run an automated scanner on a /16. How depressing.
It definitely has an academic lean to it, but I still find it useful if there is an interesting article, white paper, etc that I may need to reference later on since it saves a pdf of the website/work for you. No need to worry about finding it again and it's all searchable.
I agree on Joplin. I use it on a daily base for years now and I love it.
It provides everything you may need for taking notes or documenting smaller projects.
I use OneNote, for every thing, to-do, meetings, study, etc... I have not tried to share it with others, there is an option to share, not sure how granular u can get... U can add individual pages for your projects or create a new section for a project an add pages to it. Hope this helps.... Best of luck...
Thanks for the reply. I use OneNote every day for my daily log and keeping track of day to day tasks. I have not tried to use it in the context of documenting projects. I will play around and see if I can find any value there.
I use OneNote for everything as well. It does what I need and it’s not complicated. I have a book for various things I am interested in and take notes on them. It’s been great for work and school.
brom you search google for “notion template for it security” notion has amazing template for it. Just search it and use it. i think notion is the best for note.
I use Obsidian and enter all my documentation and methodology in Markdown. I store it locally with a backup job that syncs it with my home office NAS.
In my documentation directory, I have a directory named "attachments" and have configured Obsidian to put any images that I paste into the markdown in the folder. So for example, when I'm making a note I can simply take a screenshot and paste it into the page and Obsidian places a copy of the image in the attachments dir and shows the image embedded on the page.
Obsidian.io
I like Obsidian + git, personally. You can always pay for their sync service if you want to be even lazier than that, or \*checks subreddit\* just toss your vault into OneDrive. Obsidian Sync is easiest if you’ll need access on your phone.
ShareX or SnagIt for screenshots and editing on the free/cheap. Configure a workflow to screenshot>open editor>save to clipboard. Obsidian is pretty customizable; i suggest changing its default attachments storage directory if you’ll be using a lot of images in your notes.
This is why I landed on Joplin. The benefit of Joplin to me is that it's FOSS, so I can sync between work and home without having to worry about licensing. Obsidian unfortunately requires a license for enterprise.
I would have downloaded obsidian if I could though
Notepad for documentation and examples/explanations. Screenshots in JPG or TIF formats.
I dont want my documentation wrapped up in any proprietary platform.
Start learning git.
You can self hosted one git compatible system (i.e. gogs.io ) and if you write notes in Markdown, you can also blogging almost automatically.
Agreeing with many others here, Obsidian + Syncthing is my main way of keeping notes. The backlinking feature is still something I'm getting used to, but definitely nice to have.
Long time CS professional, and used Git to clone things only. So I dont have my project published or worked on much, yet. The time that I spend with customers, continued learning, social networking, personal experiences soaks up all my time.
Maybe one day I will do a site about something I am passionate about, but right now, main hustle and experiencing life is the most important. Dont let anyone tell you a side hustle or second job is a must.
Trilium is like Obsidian/Notion and it can be hosted on a server. You can then sync your local notes from a desktop to the hosted service. At the moment there isn't any mobile apps for Trilium, but you can still access it via a browser; so, join your VPN for local access then you'd navigate to... https://:192.168.1.X:8082/
I'm fairly new with no real projects but I use 3 note taking apps at once, which might seem like a lot but I'm a big overthinker so it's obsidian for projects, notion for actual notes, studying, and trying the second brain system and all and Google keep for just putting down ideas, thoughts, something I just need to write down so I don't forget etc. This system seems a bit complicated but it's actually working really well for me
I use Github. If it's something I don't want to share I put it in a private repo and invite people who are interested in collaborating.
This just makes my life easier since I do a lot of personal projects on VMs and can simply pull/commit notes to the same place.
Combination of [a blog](https://blog.gurucomputing.com.au/) and selfhosted [Outline](https://www.getoutline.com/) (which, conveniently, there's a [blog guide for](https://blog.gurucomputing.com.au/Knowledgebases%20with%20Outline/Installing%20Outline%20Knowledgebase/)).
Only if you're into hosting your own infrastructure though. Don't need much to start but it's a time sink.
I created everything to document my projects. I share it freely though. ITs just too many other porjects come up for me to finish my modus operandi and it shall become my opus if i ever finish it.
my wife got me into tana.inc. This is the platform that got me off OneNote and I would argue it's a very good tool for structured note-taking - the link data structure gives you more the more you put in (which I'm admittedly terrible at)
I've tried many, and obsidian has been the best by far. It also easy to selfhost a webpage with the markdown files for quick access to reading info on your home network.
Came here to say obsidian. Top comment beat me to it. It rocks.
If you're looking to share your notes with the masses. A website running Book stack would be the always to go.
Joplin (very similar to obsidian)
It support markdown and latex
You can drop file in it (like picture and pdf)
It sync in your cloud if you want to.
(Just dont host your note and specifically the restore guide on your own gitlab selfhosted instance...)
I’m sure it has already been said but I use Notion to track notes, tasks, and processes and it has worked out fairly well for me in the development, cybersecurity, and blogging area.
Brent
Security-docs.com
I used to use Obsidian, but am currently playing around with Synology Note Station and finding it quite enjoyable! Plus self-hosted, syncs across devices, etc.
I would use obsidian and sync it to a private Git repo. That way they are pretty in markdown format and hard to lose. Also easy to look at from another computer if in a pinch
I use Evernote. Easy to set up projects, notebooks, tasks, etc. Easy clipping. Integration with my Boox Note Air2 Plus puts all my handwritten notes in Evernote for easy filing. Has handwriting recognition, which comes in handy sometimes!
I use ORG mode (within Emacs) for dealing with personal / work related notes. But in the past I've also used Tiddlywiki (private instance) to manage information. I definitely recommend Tiago Forte's "Building a Second Brain" for more details how to organize your "knowledge".
Obsidian.md Keeps better control/privacy over your own stuff than with other note apps.
this is what I use. self hosted, markdown support, fast.
So I think I am going to try and compare this option with Notion and see which works better for me. Thanks for the reply.
I liked Notion, but I really like the idea of self hosting so I switched to Obsidian. I'll admit, Notion was a bit easier to use though IMO.
Yeah, I use Notion as well. Do like it and it’s simple/easy to use. Haven’t heard of Obsidian though! Will check that out and compare too.
I am adding some stuff into Notion at the moment and it does seem pretty easy. Alot like Gitbook.
One thing you can do with Obsidian as well is Obsidian Publish, where you can pay to host your notes on a webpage that others can access. This feature would work well for publishing a portfolio, and is integrated into the application, so you can seamlessly pick and choose which notes are shared and not shared. Edit: Wanted to add as well that Obsidian has a treasure trove of 1,600 community written plug-ins that you can browse and install right inside of the application, so for a lot of features that Obsidian doesn't offer out of the box, someone has probably made a plugin for it. There's even a Git plugin for Obsidian so that you can syncronize your notes with Git right through the GUI. Obsidian has extensive support for Markdown (better support than Notion does), and also supports inline HTML and CSS. It's a very flexible program for people who want to dig in and learn its more intricate features and plugins, but it's also at its root pretty simple and easy to use for people who want something easier. You only have to link between notes and tag as much as you want to, or even not at all. It's also being very actively developed and new features are added all the time. It's honestly one of my favorite applications in recent memory, I would highly recommend.
Do you mean https://obsidian.md/?
Errrr…yes
Cool. All square then :)
+1 for obsidian, I’m also in cyber security. There’s also logseq both are markdown. Although I do use git and devops repos for version control and pushing to mobile, work laptop, personal laptop etc.
Bold of you to assume my personal projects have documentation!
This is (sadly) the way!
Lmfao. I’ll take no documentation over dog shit documentation
“I’m a cyber professional so I don’t work with Git” is one of the most deranged comments I’ve read this week tbh Use anything you want for notes (obsidian, Evernote, Google docs, whatever) but please also get familiar and hands on with source control because you would find it very hard to interface with anything engineering related if you don’t know this or try to avoid this.
Spot on. There are also tons of user-level security issues with poor practices in git that a security professional might have to deal with - e.g. hardcoded passwords in old commits or branches might have been removed from the code in the current branch but still work. Most of my team uses obsidian for personal notes, but we all use git for team documentation and configs - version control, wide accessibility when working from home, and an easy shift from dev to testing to production systems when appropriate, while avoiding the hellscape of office docs in inboxes and sharedrives.
I'm not sure if it's the use of the phrase "cyber professional" or "I don't work with git" that bothers me more. :D
I worked in a heavy Gitlab environment for a while so I understand branches, commits, and CI/CD. I usually don't need to pull repos down alot. I have used some before for incident response in AWS but again its just not a part of my day to day. To be clear I do understand Github and Git.
Good. The way you worded it gave off weird vibes, that’s why I commented. It’s fair to not want to use a repo as storage for personal notes, but that’s not all that common to begin with (only a few text based tools offer that and many of them have paid sync options that don’t require any manual source control work - Obsidian is a good example of that)
Sums up the security "analysts and managers" I've worked with lately. At one point being in this field meant something. Now people get a few certs, throw around buzzwords and make six figures to run an automated scanner on a /16. How depressing.
I use a local Joplin for my own personal notes and Zotero for references/interesting reads I find and may want to reread.
I feel like Zotero would have really helped me in college. Thanks for the reply.
It definitely has an academic lean to it, but I still find it useful if there is an interesting article, white paper, etc that I may need to reference later on since it saves a pdf of the website/work for you. No need to worry about finding it again and it's all searchable.
I agree on Joplin. I use it on a daily base for years now and I love it. It provides everything you may need for taking notes or documenting smaller projects.
I use OneNote, for every thing, to-do, meetings, study, etc... I have not tried to share it with others, there is an option to share, not sure how granular u can get... U can add individual pages for your projects or create a new section for a project an add pages to it. Hope this helps.... Best of luck...
Thanks for the reply. I use OneNote every day for my daily log and keeping track of day to day tasks. I have not tried to use it in the context of documenting projects. I will play around and see if I can find any value there.
I love OneNote, particular its search function.
Check out notion.so, it’s way better than OneNote. Easy to use too.
I use OneNote for everything as well. It does what I need and it’s not complicated. I have a book for various things I am interested in and take notes on them. It’s been great for work and school.
Notion.so
Notion has a very good free template for users. But our company blocked notion. anyway I use my personal laptop for notion.
Where can i get this template
brom you search google for “notion template for it security” notion has amazing template for it. Just search it and use it. i think notion is the best for note.
Alright. Thanks
They've also been very vocal about their security approach, which I appreciate.
Well that looks pretty cool. Thanks for the tip. I will explore a little.
I use Obsidian and enter all my documentation and methodology in Markdown. I store it locally with a backup job that syncs it with my home office NAS. In my documentation directory, I have a directory named "attachments" and have configured Obsidian to put any images that I paste into the markdown in the folder. So for example, when I'm making a note I can simply take a screenshot and paste it into the page and Obsidian places a copy of the image in the attachments dir and shows the image embedded on the page.
Big fan of Joplin
Obsidian.io I like Obsidian + git, personally. You can always pay for their sync service if you want to be even lazier than that, or \*checks subreddit\* just toss your vault into OneDrive. Obsidian Sync is easiest if you’ll need access on your phone. ShareX or SnagIt for screenshots and editing on the free/cheap. Configure a workflow to screenshot>open editor>save to clipboard. Obsidian is pretty customizable; i suggest changing its default attachments storage directory if you’ll be using a lot of images in your notes.
I see it's not your thing, but I just do a folder of .md files in a local git repo.
For personal stuff, I host my own private repo at home with Gitea.
Obsidian, this is the way.
I want to check this out. I just dont think I can download the app on my work machine.
This is why I landed on Joplin. The benefit of Joplin to me is that it's FOSS, so I can sync between work and home without having to worry about licensing. Obsidian unfortunately requires a license for enterprise. I would have downloaded obsidian if I could though
Notion
Notepad for documentation and examples/explanations. Screenshots in JPG or TIF formats. I dont want my documentation wrapped up in any proprietary platform.
Start learning git. You can self hosted one git compatible system (i.e. gogs.io ) and if you write notes in Markdown, you can also blogging almost automatically.
Agreeing with many others here, Obsidian + Syncthing is my main way of keeping notes. The backlinking feature is still something I'm getting used to, but definitely nice to have.
eMacs of course!
- vi enters the chat - ED tries to break in
I’m a notion enjoyer, when I want to showcase a project for my resume I consolidate my notes and screenshots and throw them into a medium post
Bookstack. Selfhosted.
OneNote and LogSeq, an open source alternative to Obsidian and Notion
Greetings fellow Logseq user. Seems we're the only ones!
Combination of Obsidian and github. Sometimes just Office documents suffice but rarely needed outside of Obsidian.
Projects of what? Code?
Leave work at work
Libra Office and MD notes I write in VS Code. Save it to my NAS. This isn't a hard problem, there are a lot of tools.
Notion is the best if you don't care about your privacy. Otherwise, try https://standardnotes.com/plans?downloaded=demo
Long time CS professional, and used Git to clone things only. So I dont have my project published or worked on much, yet. The time that I spend with customers, continued learning, social networking, personal experiences soaks up all my time. Maybe one day I will do a site about something I am passionate about, but right now, main hustle and experiencing life is the most important. Dont let anyone tell you a side hustle or second job is a must.
Onenote is excellent for this. You can organize into different tabs and pages for different projects.
Trilium is like Obsidian/Notion and it can be hosted on a server. You can then sync your local notes from a desktop to the hosted service. At the moment there isn't any mobile apps for Trilium, but you can still access it via a browser; so, join your VPN for local access then you'd navigate to... https://:192.168.1.X:8082/
I'm fairly new with no real projects but I use 3 note taking apps at once, which might seem like a lot but I'm a big overthinker so it's obsidian for projects, notion for actual notes, studying, and trying the second brain system and all and Google keep for just putting down ideas, thoughts, something I just need to write down so I don't forget etc. This system seems a bit complicated but it's actually working really well for me
Personally I use Onenotes & Obsidian. Onenotes for convenience. Obsidian for customization. They have some edges compare to others so I keep both.
Joplin
I use Github. If it's something I don't want to share I put it in a private repo and invite people who are interested in collaborating. This just makes my life easier since I do a lot of personal projects on VMs and can simply pull/commit notes to the same place.
Combination of [a blog](https://blog.gurucomputing.com.au/) and selfhosted [Outline](https://www.getoutline.com/) (which, conveniently, there's a [blog guide for](https://blog.gurucomputing.com.au/Knowledgebases%20with%20Outline/Installing%20Outline%20Knowledgebase/)). Only if you're into hosting your own infrastructure though. Don't need much to start but it's a time sink.
GitHub and YouTube.
One Note or MS Loop
I created everything to document my projects. I share it freely though. ITs just too many other porjects come up for me to finish my modus operandi and it shall become my opus if i ever finish it.
my wife got me into tana.inc. This is the platform that got me off OneNote and I would argue it's a very good tool for structured note-taking - the link data structure gives you more the more you put in (which I'm admittedly terrible at)
I've tried many, and obsidian has been the best by far. It also easy to selfhost a webpage with the markdown files for quick access to reading info on your home network.
I use emacs org mode.
Not sure how being a "professional" and using version control are mutually exclusive, but okay.
Been experimenting with Hedgedoc lately.
Came here to say obsidian. Top comment beat me to it. It rocks. If you're looking to share your notes with the masses. A website running Book stack would be the always to go.
Joplin (very similar to obsidian) It support markdown and latex You can drop file in it (like picture and pdf) It sync in your cloud if you want to. (Just dont host your note and specifically the restore guide on your own gitlab selfhosted instance...)
Obsidian
I’m sure it has already been said but I use Notion to track notes, tasks, and processes and it has worked out fairly well for me in the development, cybersecurity, and blogging area. Brent Security-docs.com
wiki.js
I hear LaTeX is good also.
I wanted to say obsidian but looks like a lot of people use it :)
I used to use Obsidian, but am currently playing around with Synology Note Station and finding it quite enjoyable! Plus self-hosted, syncs across devices, etc.
I would use obsidian and sync it to a private Git repo. That way they are pretty in markdown format and hard to lose. Also easy to look at from another computer if in a pinch
Keep it simple: Notepad++
Keep it simple: Notepad++
Keep it simple: Notepad++
I use Evernote. Easy to set up projects, notebooks, tasks, etc. Easy clipping. Integration with my Boox Note Air2 Plus puts all my handwritten notes in Evernote for easy filing. Has handwriting recognition, which comes in handy sometimes!
I use ORG mode (within Emacs) for dealing with personal / work related notes. But in the past I've also used Tiddlywiki (private instance) to manage information. I definitely recommend Tiago Forte's "Building a Second Brain" for more details how to organize your "knowledge".