What are the tools, tricks, systems you use to record things you learn? Notebooks, text files, software or cloud apps? Do you have any custom, inventive ways to maintain your personal knowledge base?
Ask HN: What do you use to organize your knowledge?
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#2Brain 1.0
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#3I throw every random information in an Evernote notebook. For more complex stuff, like what are my priorities this month, I draw a mindmap using MindNode. Also, I've got in a habit of reviewing all my important notes and trim them every month.
Finally, I put all the interesting web articles in Pocket, because I search them later.
I tried to make flashcards in Anki for random stuff, but it didn't work out.
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#4I throw every random information in an Evernote notebook. For more complex stuff, like what are my priorities this month, I draw a mindmap using MindNode. Also, I've got in a habit of reviewing all my important notes and trim them every month. Finally, I put all the interesting web articles in Pocket, because I search them later. I tried to make flashcards in Anki for random stuff, but it didn't work out.
hi, you do know that every single word you submit to the evernote service becomes their intellectual property and can be used without your consent, do you?
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#5I spent a long time looking for my ideal knowledge organizer, and eventually settled on Notecase Pro (http://www.notecasepro.com/).
It's cross-platform, with a functional free version. I have no problem paying for good, useful software, especially (as in this case) when it's produced by a dedicated individual or small company.
Evernote is overrated...
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#6simplenote + notational velocity
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#7I have been using google keep for a bit and it seems to just work for me, but its just for simple notes really.
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#8I dump stuff in one big TextEdit/Notepad file that sits on my desktop. It is really easy to arrange stuff in it, take notes for meetings, etc. TextEdit/Notepad loads really really fast. I can move stuff out of it easily (say contact information into my phone) and every once in a while I clean it up.
I've tried so many other things but a single text file sitting on my desktop just seems to work really well.
Re: Ask HN: What do you use to organize your knowledge?
#9I've recently (this year) taken to writing more blog posts[1]. It helps me make sure that what I'm writing will be readable by me X years from now and also could help other people. For more private thoughts or thoughts I haven't developed into posts yet I use text files and Dropbox or Evernote.
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#10I have discovered, before the recent studies, that when I take paper notes during anything, I remember the meeting/lecture/whatever quite well.
So I use paper notes as a backup, but as someone else noted, good old fashioned Brain 1.0.
But when that isn't enough, paper files are good for formal stuff.
On the computer, well, it's kind of a disaster. Gmail has helped here. But there is no compelling note organization system. And I'm not sure you'd want one, I think we've learned is that 'findability' is the most important feature, and organization isnt the only way to achieve that.