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Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?

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Post by geoelectric » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 8:30 PM UTC

3zra wrote: post #85

I'm surprised VoodooPad [1] does not get mentioned more often when this question gets asked. It is by far the most straightforward wiki I have used. The two features I rely on most are (i) creating new pages that link back to a piece of text simply by highlighting the text and entering a shortcut and (ii) adding aliases to pages, so that each time either the page name or its aliases are mentioned anywhere in the wiki…

I used to use VP back in the early 2010s, but then it was basically abandoned.

It got picked back up a couple of years ago, but when I checked it out recently it didn't even have dark mode implemented. I'm sure I could do it in a style configuration or something, but the bigger point is that Mojave has been around for quite awhile now, and lack of that update points to it being abandoned again.

So for me, non-starter. On Mac, being abandoned means you only last to the next major "all the old software is screwed" change they seem to do every couple/few years now, so it's kiss of death.

Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?

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Post by bobbydreamer » Sun, Oct 27, 2019, 4:39 AM UTC

2yrs back, i had designed a website to stash information. stash.bobbydreamer.com

Data is stored in firebase and authentication is handled by firebase as well. Just a site to stash notes, links. Purely javascript.

I am planning on upgrading the site to support markdown. So notes can look like article. Some can be private, some can be public.

Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?

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Post by davchana » Sun, Nov 03, 2019, 8:47 AM UTC

desipenguin wrote: post #99

davchana wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My issue with TiddlyWiki was that it always get saved as new file when you save it.

"was" - so I assume it is now resolved ? I use it myself, and file is "overwritten" when saved. (as expected) I have local file that I open in firefox, and edit. Every so often I commit it to git. If you open from non-local URL - it can not be "saved" - which is what you may have encountered ? https://wiki.desipenguin.com/#2019.10.11

By Was, I meant when I was using it, or tried it. I am pretty much all neck deep in Google verse, so use only Chrome. & this my issue was not resolved until that time.