Also it's not a product or a service, I really like Gordon Brander's "Patterns" [1] on his website. [1] http://gordonbrander.com/pattern/
Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
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Re: Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
#102I use Dropbox to store everything. There are no files that I care fore that are not managed by Dropbox (or iCloud, for my photos/videos). I use iA Writer to create lists and documents for everything in Dropbox folders. I also have a folder for PDFs/papers (also on Dropbox). There are also folders for my study nodes ( I study codebases ), notes on personal stuff, notes on Programming, on pretty much everything. I use…
I do the same with plain text files. The only problem I have is searching. I wish there was a Google for searching local files (i.e. concept search).
There was and I shit you not it was from Google.
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#103Could OP outline why he is not satisfied? That might be helpful.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Evernote's search sucks(at least for a free user). can't(sometimes) even handle synonyms well. Sadly, there's no better alternative.
I haven't had issues with synonyms specifically, my praise for it comes more from it copying the full text of websites when I clip them and parsing the contents of hand written OCR scanned notes and being able to search over those.
are you a paying or free user?
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#105I now use gitea to host code and markdown/notes and generic filesystem(or NAS) to host large size blob(movies,pdf,etc).
for a universal knowledge/media/file organizer the way might be a smart tag-based system, could not find one still.
used drupal, wordpress for CMS in the past before switched to gitea. Can't use static-site-generator as I don't want to put random personal notes on internet without even a login.
a simple, login-included, markdown driven cms with search/tagging will be really nice.
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#106Evernote (Premium): Saved Articles, PDF, Notes, Project Documents, Scans of my physical mail
I also export final documents there, eg Mindnode maps, Presentations etc. I write notes using iA Writer.
iCloud: Documents, Photos, Videos, Music (Production), Programming
Omnifocus: Reminders, Project Tasks
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#107For books, PDFs : Zotero (if book/pdf requires to be sync have a copy at iCloud)
- Because I usually need to cite these things.
For notes: First condense the thought and put it nicely to Dynalist - Because it is all easily searchable, linked and think-then-write tree-structure. - Mobile app is a must to capture ideas, thoughts on mobile.
For todo: Things/Todoist etc. would work. - Because you need deadlines, reminders.
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#108You can organize ebooks with caliber software
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#109Has anyone found something that works with Markdown, code highlighting, and Latex?
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#110I used to dump every thing in GoogleDrive and search. I was enamored with keeping my notes in plaint text, so as to not tie these with any specific tools/app/formats as these go out of fashion every few years. However I realized I also have links/clippings from Web, which needs to be part of my searchable knowledge-base. And I want to be able to clip/bookmark those from my phone as well as Mac and Windows machines. Evernote works great for such use, and has tags(it does not keep notes in plain text format though, these are supposed to be exportable though).
I would not mix video/movies with text based content though(links are fine).