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Re: Ask HN: What do you use to organize your knowledge?

#23
Emacs (naturally), with org-mode[1]. ssh replication along with the mobile org-mode app on Android [2] meets all my needs.

[1] http://orgmode.org

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matburt.mo... (there are others... /search?q=orgmode&c=apps for more)

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to organize your knowledge?

#24

I 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.

I wonder what will it look like after a year, when you work on mutiple project,multiple poeple.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to organize your knowledge?

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post #13
post #2

Brain 1.0

I use it too, but it needs a constant supply of caffeine or it crashes.

Try the hidden feature, it's a defrag storage procedure called "sleep". You can start it up by putting the brain in a dark room, and make it count an array of the species Ovis aries.

Does wonders.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use to organize your knowledge?

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post #19

After playing with various (note-taking) applications/apps I found all of them severely lacking (for several reasons). I was always for the lookout of the one-size-fits-all application, which I obviously never found. Realizing that there is no such system/app I split things out: * Important Stuff as well as trivia -> CalDav... believe it or not, but CalDav beats most other systems/apps out there, it's accessible on a…

Yip, I tried out vimwiki a while back and have stuck with it. Pretty simple to setup and yes, a git commit generates the html files and rsync's them up to the internet. Pretty bombproof.
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