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Ask HN: How do you manage “knowledge”

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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage “knowledge”

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Post by dirktheman »

forapurpose wrote: post #28
dirktheman wrote: post #4

I use Evernote for exactly this. I organized it with a couple of notebooks: Filing cabinet, Family, Work, Inbox and Templates. I have about 20 tags that I can assign to each note and I rename all notes with the date in the name so a combination of tags, title and notebook alsways yields the result I want. A couple of takeaways: - Evernote Premium is well wort hit, it converts all PDFs and images with OCR so that the…

Can you get your valuable data out of Evernote? Will you be able to read it in 20 years?

Yes, you can export all notes/notebooks as an .EXEX file. Granted this is a file extension that only Evernote uses, but there are converters out there.

Also, I keep copies of the most valuable data (photos, documents that I really want to keep safe) both offline and in online cold storage.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage “knowledge”

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Post by bewe42 »

Teach others about what you want to acquire. That's why I believe that blogging is a very efficient exercise if you want to truly learn something.

Teaching requires you to absorb, eliminate and bring order into your thoughts. This is when learning happens.

Regarding what tool I'd recommend, I use Scrivener. As I mostly write in order to learn, and Scrivener is a writing tool, I've come to use Scrivener for almost everything.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage “knowledge”

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Post by vondur »

forapurpose wrote: post #28
dirktheman wrote: post #4

I use Evernote for exactly this. I organized it with a couple of notebooks: Filing cabinet, Family, Work, Inbox and Templates. I have about 20 tags that I can assign to each note and I rename all notes with the date in the name so a combination of tags, title and notebook alsways yields the result I want. A couple of takeaways: - Evernote Premium is well wort hit, it converts all PDFs and images with OCR so that the…

Can you get your valuable data out of Evernote? Will you be able to read it in 20 years?

It also has the ability to export as an HTML file.
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