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Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by shoover »

vijucat wrote: post #6

OneNote. The hierarchical breakdown of Notebook, Section, and Pages is quite useful. I use one page as a linear, chronological "Plan for today" journal, with links to subject matter on other Pages that naturally get organized into Sections (ML learning, Coursera - Scala, Health, Attitude / Thinking, etc;). Evernote's Search is much better than OneNote's (Windows' Search), searching seamlessly even inside attachments,…

This topic comes up occasionally and we see lots of answers involving plain text and wikis. It seems like there is still room for some perfect solution to the OP's problem with just the right feature set. Something with the stellar web and mobile ease-of-use and performance of Trello but document-based and at the same time free-form.

OneNote is probably the closest thing that exists.

Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by juliansamarjiev »

While building my company, we just drop all our experiences, lessons learned and failures down in our blog. It helps us document the process, be able to look back at it, as well as hopefully provide a valuable blueprint for other people building a business.

We've been doing it from day 1 and realise how valuable is and will be, going forward. https://weardulo.com/blogs/origins

Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by maxxxxx »

vijucat wrote: post #6

OneNote. The hierarchical breakdown of Notebook, Section, and Pages is quite useful. I use one page as a linear, chronological "Plan for today" journal, with links to subject matter on other Pages that naturally get organized into Sections (ML learning, Coursera - Scala, Health, Attitude / Thinking, etc;). Evernote's Search is much better than OneNote's (Windows' Search), searching seamlessly even inside attachments,…

OneNote seems to be the only tool that's actually being used in my team. It's not perfect but it works.

Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by chasely »

I write things down and then transfer what is useful to digital with org-mode.

Depending on the "officialness," I write things down on either a legal pad or in a lab notebook dedicated to a project. Then the most important bits of this gets put into an org-mode "notebook."

I prefer writing things down first, I find that it sharpens my thinking around whatever I'm recording.

Though there are some other interesting ideas in here that I may try and steal.

Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by rubidium »

Relevant from 73 days ago: "Ask HN: How does your team handle knowledge documentation?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637194

My answer is the same. The tools don't matter much at all when it comes to documenting knowledge. Whatever gets used is best. Searchable is a plus.

Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by cube2222 »

vijucat wrote: post #6

OneNote. The hierarchical breakdown of Notebook, Section, and Pages is quite useful. I use one page as a linear, chronological "Plan for today" journal, with links to subject matter on other Pages that naturally get organized into Sections (ML learning, Coursera - Scala, Health, Attitude / Thinking, etc;). Evernote's Search is much better than OneNote's (Windows' Search), searching seamlessly even inside attachments,…

Using OneNote too and another advantage is, for people like me, who have a Surface, that I can jot down prototypes and sketch diagrams there.

Other than that, I use Edge to write on pdf's. (Sometimes, if they're small, I just print them into OneNote and write there)

A thing many problably don't know: OneNote supports LaTex (with some differences) in the equation editor

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