Also it's not a product or a service, I really like Gordon Brander's "Patterns" [1] on his website.
Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
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#42Org-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.
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#43I use Dropbox to store everything. There are no files that I care fore that are not managed by Dropbox (or iCloud, for my photos/videos). I use iA Writer to create lists and documents for everything in Dropbox folders. I also have a folder for PDFs/papers (also on Dropbox). There are also folders for my study nodes ( I study codebases ), notes on personal stuff, notes on Programming, on pretty much everything. I use…
Hmm I have a similar setup except I use gitlab private repo... but really there isn't that much of a need for a 'commit history' in notes... I think I'll try the dropbox approach.
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#44Nodebook¹ is the tool that I've been using for the last couple months. IMO, it beats Zotero and Evernote, or any other tool I've previously used.
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#45I would say Evernote but I’m not sure you want to cram movies in there. Works for everything else though, even searches on its attempts to recognize handwriting. Won’t give you a transcript of that though.
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#46As this question comes up quite frequently, here are some past discussions:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17586375
Re: Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
#47I use Dropbox to store everything. There are no files that I care fore that are not managed by Dropbox (or iCloud, for my photos/videos). I use iA Writer to create lists and documents for everything in Dropbox folders. I also have a folder for PDFs/papers (also on Dropbox). There are also folders for my study nodes ( I study codebases ), notes on personal stuff, notes on Programming, on pretty much everything. I use…
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#48This is what I learned from designing data architectures: If your data is variegated in format and form, don't look for a single tool/method solution to organize them. There is no single all-purpose organization method. Don't start with figuring out a method to organize your information. You will end up overengineering your org method. Instead, organize your information per "use-case". Start with a specific use-case/…
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#49I went down a deep rabbit hole on this about a year ago. Nothing feels totally right but currently I use a mix of TiddlyWiki and Airtable. I haven't found a great solution for media outside of Dropbox but those two tools work well for text and data.
TiddlyWiki is rather inscrutable at first, but extremely customizable and very thoughtfully architected. What I like most is that it is doesn't rely on an internet connection, it's very customizable and non-linear. The basic idea of being able to interlink things and create new pages just by adding brackets around a word is something I miss anywhere I don't have it.
I use TiddlyWiki in an Electron wrapper made with Nativefier. With a bit of custom CSS the interface is very pleasant.
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#50I use WorkFlowy[1] as my starting place for all notes, info, and tech tips. It's quickly searchable and the mobile client is easy to use. I really like the structure of bulleted lists for just about all types of information. It doesn't really cover your file storage needs, but I think that's a different beast than notes and information. When I need to store stuff like that I dump it on Google Drive which makes search…
Being able to zoom into lists of lists is Workflowy's best feature
I believe Org-mode has that feature as well. I was and am very impressed by Workflowy but a) using plain text files b) better hyperlink handling have me migrating to Org-mode + Orgzly