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Ask HN: How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?

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Post by lllllll »

Chevalier wrote: post #66

Trello - ESSENTIAL kanban system for project management and daily organization. I'm an absolute fanatic for Trello. OneNote - The greatest program ever made. OneNote isn't useful for short-term to-dos, but I couldn't live without its organization of my long-term work. Pocket - I never have time to read articles, and they're unpleasant to read on a squat laptop screen in any case. Pocket lets me read them on my tablet…

I second this, Trello totally decreased my overinformation-induced uneasiness, and happened to help me summarize information. Of course not all kinds of information fit there. I found out it's great particularly for information I want to be in contact with quite often.

Also Trello Inc's public development board(https://trello.com/b/nC8QJJoZ/trello-development) is just genius, imo.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?

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Post by xj9 »

ay1n wrote: post #79
xj9 wrote: post #44

I have a notebook (moleskine atm, but I've used a lot of other brands/kinds) for sketching out and expressing ideas/insights and I use Evernote for long-term storage, project management, and to store reference material. I also use Safari's reading list to hold on to things I want to read, but don't know if I want to save permanently. Edit: I seriously keep everything in Evernote, whats up with the down votes?

Don't know why somebody downvoted you, I've upvoted your post. I also use notebooks, mostly when I'm away from computer but as you, I'm using it for sketching and brainstorming sessions. Do you regularly review things in your Safari's reading list or it keeps growing? Because that's the problem in my case.

My reading list is pretty big. I keep articles there until I get around to reading them, if they seem like something I want to keep around I clip them to Evernote and remove them from the list. In some cases I'll just move them into bookmarks which are mostly unsorted, as I use them primarily as a durable form of browsing history.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?

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Post by yellow_and_gray »

andrey-p wrote: post #15

What I do is: - For meetings, events, social obligations, I carry a small paper-based diary. - For ideas and thoughts, I write them down. The idea is that the act of writing something down aids recall. For example, story and blog ideas go in a A5 notebook that I carry around with me, and I commit them to a digitally backed up document as soon as possible. Note-to-self lifestyle advice goes in my bedside drawer, to ch…

What would you do to improve how your subconscious works?

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?

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Post by yellow_and_gray »

chubot wrote: post #6

I wrote in this thread about using a Wiki I wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8753599

That link is full of wisdom, thank you for posting it! I never met anyone who wrote their own wiki and used it for so long.

I was surprised the biggest thing for you was speed and full-text search, and also by this comment: "I think people forgot how to make a simple web app with a form and plain buttons."

The biggest thing for me is learning. Not so much categorizing everything correctly.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?

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Post by rndn »

frik wrote: post #26
ay1n wrote: post #2

There is a 2000 character limit in the question box, so here is what I'm using now: - pinboard for managing bookmarks (database of things that may be useful sometime; probably never) & reading list for articles - I'm testing tagspaces ( http://www.tagspaces.org/ ) for local files organization (mostly tagging research papers and books; didn't like Mendeley) - cardav & caldav from owncloud for contacts and events - ank…

I tried a personal wiki (MediaWiki and SharePoint) on localhost too and encountered the same problems (hard to reorganize, secure mobile access). So I switched back to plain text, using the Markdown syntax format. Sync works fine with IMAP based email account (note apps on iOS & Android support that too). For visual complex documents I use a WYSIWYG HTML editor and the HTML format. SVN/Git repo to preserve the edit h…

Org-mode is a really good replacement for MediaWiki. You can manage links, tables and lists all with simple and reliable text files with .org suffix in Emacs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage/organize information and knowledge in your life?

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Post by petemir »

meesterdude wrote: post #35

I've come to find that everyone has a different solution, and lots of people have different priorities. A client of mine keeps everything in text files. I know another that does everything in excel. Others use some combination of apps and services (dropbox for files, omnifocus for todos, evernote for notes and articles) and that works ok for them too. After trying several solutions, I ended up building a SaaS to mana…

Do you have it online? care to share?
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