Notion for everything: my work, personal, and wife+I joint workspace.
Moved to Notion from Marxico+Evernote a couple of months ago, haven't looked back.
Are you using the free plan, or the personal paid plan?
Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
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Re: Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
#182I use Evernote for ebooks, papers, articles and personal notes. Probably wouldn't work well for movies or large photo albums (I iCloud for stuff like that). I use their chrome extension, desktop app and mobile app and it works really well. It's really nice to be able to search everything I've ever written in notes or clipped on the web. It also has some support for OCR for paper notes, and does a decent job of indexi…
Unfortunately Evernote gradually becomes worse and worse, at least on Mac. The very basic functionality of editing notes is buggy and slow. Issues keep creeping into both simple text notes and web clippings. Users are complaining about this for years, the devs do nothing but change the looks instead and bolt on corporate features (apparently corporate users don't need basic functionality working well?). They have the…
The web clipper is definitely the main reason I still use evernote. I've tried a few alternatives, but haven't found anything nearly as good.
Other than the speed issues you mentioned, I'm also worried that evernote is eventually going to start selling my information (if it doesn't already) and I don't feel safe putting personal notes on it.
Re: Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
#183Links: pinboard.in Wiki: I host my own mediawiki instance. Documents: I host my own upspin: upspin.io backed by ZFS. Images: Combination of upspin (above) and iCloud Photos.
I also host my own MediaWiki instance, complete with VisualEditor and a mobile skin. Out of curiosity, why are you not loading documents and images into your wiki? For images, I don't use it as an image repository, just for images of things specific to personal knowledge.
Would you upload pdfs and things like that to your mediawiki? Bills, invoices, paychecks, for example.
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#184I bought a $10 starter confluence license and using it since last 6 months. I am happy with what I have got so far. I have documented lots of things from my job related to personal life.
Although I am also looking it to change to a different system.
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#185Org-mode. Since it's a plaintext format it's easily searchable, and it's the most feature complete and ergonomic piece of software I've ever used for task tracking and knowledge management (including MediaWiki, TiddlyWiki, Google Docs, Evernote, plain txts, and more). One major pain point: no totally seamless mobile sync that I'm aware of. I just write things down in Google Keep and transcribe them when I'm on my lap…
Not a perfect solution for everyone as you need a computer to be always on (eg. a server, a NAS, whatever) for sync, but I've been using Orgzly on Android with Syncthing to handle the sync between all my computers and my phone, and it's much better that everything I've tried before.
That's my setup too and it has worked so well that I sometimes feel like I have to double check that it's still working because it runs so smoothly.
Occasionally I have to consolidate multiple edits with ediff-files, but that's normally only after I have accidentally disabled wifi on the phone for longer periods of time.
Re: Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also host my own MediaWiki instance, complete with VisualEditor and a mobile skin. Out of curiosity, why are you not loading documents and images into your wiki? For images, I don't use it as an image repository, just for images of things specific to personal knowledge.
Would you upload pdfs and things like that to your mediawiki? Bills, invoices, paychecks, for example.
I do upload pdfs including bills and invoices (not paychecks since I don't have a use case for that). My wiki is private so it's only available to me. Plus I have extensions that allow me to render the pdfs nicely and index all the text in pdfs for easier searching.
Re: Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
#187Well first of all get a little software named evrything
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't start with figuring out a method to organize your information. You will end up overengineering your org method. I think this is an important point. I like to start with a few simple rules: - To retrieve information, I should know where to start: a Schelling point.[0] For me, this is the home page of my wiki. For wenc, it's a Google Doc. - It shouldn't take me more than three clicks to get from my starting point…
What software do you use for your wiki?
Dokuwiki is what I use. Easy to setup, easy to use. And with Dokuwiki on a stick there is a zero-installation, portable local option.
Re: Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
#189Has anyone found something that works with Markdown, code highlighting, and Latex?
There was a show HN this week with something called Madoko which sounded like exactly that.
Re: Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
#190Personally I use vimwiki. It stores everything in plaintext files that I can search, keep track of in git, and also comes with quite a few useful features for building articles. The main downside, as someone else has mentioned here with org-mode, is the lack of a good mobile editor. This is something I’ve wanted to find time to fix for years but still haven’t had a chance.
How are you currently viewing/editing your wiki on mobile? I sync to a server with vim and vimwiki installed and on my phone I just mosh[0] in. I don't generally do extensive editing on the go, though. Did the solution you have in mind include a specialized editor for touchscreens? [0]: https://mosh.org/
I recently started using Markor for that purpose. While it wasn't built as a vimwiki client, it is good enough for my purposes. Some info at https://github.com/gsantner/markor/issues/317.