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It's a more flexible mind map that allows adding urls, videos, images, richtext etc.,
I have different maps for different topics - like "things I want to learn", "my ideas in XYZ", "project A" etc.,
This general “knowledge management” question is like a “time management” one — usually meaningless and sometimes a form of escapism. When you don’t have any particular emotionally charged goal(s) in mind — no time/knowledge management technique would really make a difference. But some of them might give you a good illusion of something important going on. And as soon as you have specific important goal in mind (like…
I've had a different experience. In the times where an emotionally charged goal isn't driving me forward, adhering to disciplined regimes for time and knowledge management has helped me to prepare and therefore perform better in times there IS a highly motivating goal. There don't have to be two extremes of X-management (one fuelled by emotion and one dragged down by apathy). Like anything, building a discipline in t…
But i see that its near impossible to build a discipline without particular goal in mind.
By “emotionally charged” i meant “really important for you”, important enough so you even force yourself when you don’t feel excited about the goal.
Plain text. I keep metadata embedded in the content of each file. I keep only one k:v pair per line. e.g "topic: D3", "subject: scales", "context: Side Project" Use grep and awk to slice, group, dice and join as and how I want. Incredibly flexible, a bash-like shell is my only dependency. Works with any search engine that i've tried. Easily replacable parts. Check into git regularly. Some scripts I use ## group by to…
Would you have a repository of your scripts somewhere?
There's a way to implement full GTD [0] framework with Evernote using Notebooks and tags. This is a very useful part for me, especially long-term and life planning horizons.
The application or method of your choice will only organize your knowledge (more correctly, represent it) if you already have done it yourself in your thoughts.
I just use nicely formatted markdown files these days. There's no magic application that'll do it for you.
1. A zettelkasten, using [neuron](https://neuron.zettel.page/), synced with git (and hosted at github pages), as well as another private repo that I self-host on a machine at home
2. A series of dropbox-synced plain text markdown files edited with vim and accessed via a few fuzzy finders - feels just like notational velocity. these files and the way i use them are documented and organized by a single root file, everything spreads tree-like from there.
3. VimWiki (deprecated. migrating into zettelkasten as appropriate)
4. A small moleskine notebook that is always in my pocket.
Obsidian was the mind opener for me. Simple to use. Backuped on Dropbox on my various machines, it is my ubiquitous personal knowledge base. The fact that you can copy/paste HTML from web pages into it makes me rebuild knowledge I get from the internet into my own version. Really really a fundamental tool for me. The Vi of knowledge. PS: I don't know the other tools (notion, roam,...) PPS: a big downside in Obsidian,…
you’ll be up and publishing in no time (for free and automatically to GH pages if you want)
This general “knowledge management” question is like a “time management” one — usually meaningless and sometimes a form of escapism. When you don’t have any particular emotionally charged goal(s) in mind — no time/knowledge management technique would really make a difference. But some of them might give you a good illusion of something important going on. And as soon as you have specific important goal in mind (like…
I have a practice of creating a directory `Machine_` for each physical device. And, further I name each file `-*`.
But did I name the file LUKS? LVM? or name it after my distro? or just partitioning? (of course, in truth, I can search in text files for those same keywords, but really I was just overwhelmed by the disorder of my folder)
So I was thinking about this problem. Now a bunch of odd folder names just doesn't communicate in a pinch. Now I'm thinking along the same lines of how programs are packaged. Specially named folders. Structures of folders.
I'm thinking along the lines of:
+- Machine-
|- issues.d
|- docs.d
|- configs.d
|- fixes.d
I use spreadsheets and custom 2D dsls. I get the best of tabular and tree structures. The latest iterations aren’t live yet, but there’s a lot of stuff on treenotation.org which is the foundation of what I use. I consider it like a tool for clear thinking. There’s no punctuation or noise, pure signal. I build DSLs and then spreadsheets in those DSLs. Both the data and grammars are in 2D Lang’s. There’s no quotes, bra…