lol you sound just like me. A different application for every specific purpose. I’ve looked into ulysseus but its a macOS only app, I use a crossplatform app called app.classeur.io that is similar.
I use it to mostly have distraction free writing for wordpress blog posts in markdown format
I actually wrote a blog post about this (my wordpress blog site is horribly outdated theme-wise, still working on it)
Also, this is currently what I use my lists of apps for:
Dynalist
Everything I use dynalist is extremely heavy on reference / note material for learning new things / complex subjects I don’t comprehend that well
- Course notes
- Code snippets (I replaced gistboxapp from this)
- Idea generation
- Short journaling (in 4 sentences / day at most summarizing important things /events i did throughout day)
- Project Notes
- I integrate some handwritten notes in dynalist too using images Workflow for adding picture / handwritten notes to dynalist
- Outlining
This is where I express thoughts and stuff
- Markdown based writing. I cannot express my thoughts clearly in dynalist that well, all my notes in dynalist are very logical / methodical, so I use a seperate app for this
- Serious writing
Google Calendar
This is where I manage my long term events I need to remember at least 2 weeks out
Everything else is in stickynote format + kanban / sprints
Agendas Meetings outline notes To-Do List / General ToDoList
Surprisingly I don’t take a lot of these, so I just stick with a stickynote/legalpad+ paper +pen.
It really depends on what your job is though, this is highly dependent on that
If I had a choice I would use either dynalist or a dedicated group app like trello/asana/slack
A lot of small todolist / tasks I kind of am too lazy to write it in dynalist and check it off, I prefer old school methods here
Sublime / Atom / Visualstudio Code/ repl / Cloud9 ide
Whatever gets the job done, in the end it I just use git and push it to github anyways, so it doesn’t matter what my IDE looks like
I did do blog notes using a nodeJS platform called hexo using sublime text as my editor… it worked out okayish. Rather have a dedicated app like ulysseus though or app.classeur.io
if I’m not sure where to put my code snippets at, I just dump it in dynalist. I use this code syntax highlighter that @piotr wrote Multi-line code blocks
if I need lots of revisions / commit logs / git branches and stuff I use github
onenote/evernote/ everything else
If I had existing notes elsewhere already like onenote for my contacts sheet, I don’t feel like porting it in dynalist so i just update it in onenote
evernote I only look at old notes only, but I’ll put longer personal journal entries here that span several pages , normally when I’m frustrated at something and want to vent about it
Email drafting
I don’t really do a lot of email drafting honestly, I try to get it over with as quickly as possible. I never dwell on professionalism with emails because I try to maintain a high standard across every email I send
In summary
I forgot I actually also wrote a blog post answering your question as well
Anyways, thats what I use all the apps for
like colliding them all. so far, several of eureka. those epiphany moments are the best feeling.