https://workflowy.com/
Can anyone explain what exactly Workflowy is/does? I only see a login page.
Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#222Honestly, I just keep everything in a journal. I have a folder called "daypages" in my dropbox. Each day in my life becomes a file in this folder. Today's is "daypages/2016-10-26.org" That's about it. I don't really organize by project much. Each day typically covers the tasks that I intend to get done that day, along with places I've been / friends I've met. The occasional tearful journal entry punctuates the otherw…
I do something similar but I gave up using org-mode (mostly because that was all I was using emacs for and I spent more time configuring the thing 'just so' than I did actually using it. Now I just keep everything in plain text and aliased it to 'tj' (todays journal). alias tj="touch ~/Dropbox/journal/$(date +%d-%m-%Y).org && code ~/Dropbox/journal/$(date +%d-%m-%Y).org" Effortless backups as well (and as a side bene…
I am curious, what does the "code" alias link to? and why is it that you need to touch it before you edit it? wouldn't an editor do that for you?
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#223If it is super important, I write it down in a hard bound journal. I find things get lost in digital note keeping apps. Yes you can search, but there is no structure to the data so you get back a whole bunch of unordered keyword matches. I often thought that store some information as Prolog facts would make it more accessible while being somewhat structured. I have not had time to build a proof of concept on this.
I actually have the opposite fear: I'm afraid that my important notes would get burried in a notebook because it's linear and I keep adding thing. In a digital file I can rearrange items, permanently delete them etc.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not as difficult as it seems. Actually I'd say that if you already know GNU Readline shortcuts (which are very helpful on e.g. Bash), it's an afternoon of work to learn the basics. The problem is that most tutorials depict emacs as a bag of keyboard shortcuts. But in reality, there are some simple principles that are quite understandable. And org-mode is so underappreciated. You can turn it into anything. I use…
Do you mind telling me how you use kanban? I tried kanban.el but couldnt get it to update and populate the table, is there any way that emacs can auto-update live the kanban board based on todo states of items?? (e.g. if you hit shift + right for todo it is automatically seen in the todo column, without having to revert the file?)
Sure. I don't like kanban.el much.
After a lot of though, I had a little epiphany. Vanilla org-mode is great as a kanban as long as you don't try to visualize it as a table. One should use an outline instead. org-mode is an extension of outline-mode, so this should not be surprising.
Then everything is simple. Create custom states (I have TODO, PROG, WAIT & DONE). Agenda commands show you summarized views of the kanban. You can customize stuff with a bit of elisp, but org-mode as it is works great.
Note the outline version of a kanban is still 2D, as a table, but strictly more powerful (as you can nest tasks, add text) which would be next to impossible in a table.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not as difficult as it seems. Actually I'd say that if you already know GNU Readline shortcuts (which are very helpful on e.g. Bash), it's an afternoon of work to learn the basics. The problem is that most tutorials depict emacs as a bag of keyboard shortcuts. But in reality, there are some simple principles that are quite understandable. And org-mode is so underappreciated. You can turn it into anything. I use…
>The problem is that most tutorials depict emacs as a bag of keyboard shortcuts. But in reality, there are some simple principles that are quite understandable. Do you know one that doesn't ?
Unfortunately, I don't. But I plan to write one soon.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do something similar but I gave up using org-mode (mostly because that was all I was using emacs for and I spent more time configuring the thing 'just so' than I did actually using it. Now I just keep everything in plain text and aliased it to 'tj' (todays journal). alias tj="touch ~/Dropbox/journal/$(date +%d-%m-%Y).org && code ~/Dropbox/journal/$(date +%d-%m-%Y).org" Effortless backups as well (and as a side bene…
I am curious, what does the "code" alias link to? and why is it that you need to touch it before you edit it? wouldn't an editor do that for you?
It's the name of the binary for Visual Studio Code.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#227If it is super important, I write it down in a hard bound journal. I find things get lost in digital note keeping apps. Yes you can search, but there is no structure to the data so you get back a whole bunch of unordered keyword matches. I often thought that store some information as Prolog facts would make it more accessible while being somewhat structured. I have not had time to build a proof of concept on this.
Hmmm, Prolog to store facts about your projects. That's an interesting thought. Been awhile since I've messed about with Prolog (was in school). I liked it then, but couldn't come up with a good use case for it in my everyday programming.
professionally, I used it to automate filling out a very complex form.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#228Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#229OneNote (both offline and synced) and https://github.com/greggigon/my-personal-kanban-server
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#230I hope to release TableTops next year. It's a non-linear graphical (in two senses of the word) knowledge management software that stores universal links to all of your stuff, local and in the cloud. It also does notes, tags, and script nodes (which can for example be used as alarms / reminders) and represents EVERYTHING as a great big graph. The main UI element is a TableTop, which is also just a node in the graph th…
Well, this sounds like what I keep wishing existed. I want it!