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Re: Show HN: Personal Management System

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Based on the style, I'm guessing the author is Dutch.

This is very much a personal reaction, but it sounds charming as written!

This wasn't meant to be derogatory. I just thought I was getting better at identifying dutchy english mannerisms

Re: Show HN: Personal Management System

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I can't edit, but I was hoping the backticks would create a code block, so please ignore those backticks. Also, more details can be found on their documentation [0]. [0] https://symfony.com/doc/current/doctrine.html#configuring-th...

DATABASE_URL="sqlite:///%kernel.project_dir%/var/app.db" Use two or more spaces at the start of the line: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

That's helpful, thank you.

Re: Show HN: Personal Management System

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Would you mind sharing an overview of your system?

NextCloud for syncing calendar and contacts, and hosted git for syncing Markdown files for notes. I also make heavy use of the phone's voice recorder, and try to transcribe my voice notes periodically.

git is not convenient for maintaining md files as you always need to push it to get cross platform synced. I prefer syncplicity or similar tools used for auto syncing files

Re: Show HN: Personal Management System

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post #53

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NextCloud for syncing calendar and contacts, and hosted git for syncing Markdown files for notes. I also make heavy use of the phone's voice recorder, and try to transcribe my voice notes periodically.

git is not convenient for maintaining md files as you always need to push it to get cross platform synced. I prefer syncplicity or similar tools used for auto syncing files

I use a combination of email + git (markdown + dir structure) + google calendar + google keep + whiteboard.

email is my first point of contact. Anything that enters my system is almost always via an email to myself. I prefix every new email with a date. Everything from todos (190816 - get your flu shot) to thoughts (190214 - why today was a good day) to lessons (190701 - don't take folks who love you for granted), stories i heard, bookmarks i find, information on people (190305 - Dave from NY really likes to go hiking, lets plan something), ongoing projects, ideas, IOUs, travelogues, books i want to read, etc goes in there. I have directories - bookmarks, projects, ideas, people which i drag these emails into. Any update on any of these becomes a reply on it.

My inbox is the stuff I am (or should be) working on. I try to not let it exceed 10 items.

Every few weeks, I go through my emails and look for the right place for it. Mostly stuff gets deleted. Sometimes it feels like it deserves its space. That stuff goes to git wiki. I meticulously index and cross reference my wiki pages. Some are files that go to their own directories.

Events like birthdays and anniversaries, credit card payment reminders, holiday plans, car registration renewals etc go from email to google calendar.

Information I really want handy like my car's license plat, vin number, my phones imei and sim card no, passport no, street addresses, office fax no, etc goes to google keep.

Stuff I want to mull over and stuff I just cant afford to forget goes to the whiteboard.

This system has served me well for over a year now. Its flexible, minimal vendor lockin, free. I access any of these from any device I have.

It just works.

Re: Show HN: Personal Management System

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You should post on r/selfhosted ( https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ ) Been waiting for something like this for a long time ... Only thing I would change is use sqlite rather than mysql. That way your data is in a single file that is easily portable.

Hey thanks for that info - I will check that subreddit. I will stick to mysql. I agree that it would be more portable but I dont really intend to take it with me anywhere.

Re: Show HN: Personal Management System

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This looks great, but it is very specific to the needs of the author. Which makes sense, if I have my own itches to scratch I should send a pull request. I won't, because my information is already organized, but these are the features that people interested in the project should know offhand: 1. Contacts are divided between those with phone numbers and those with email addresses. You cannot have a contact with both a…

I pretty much understand what You mean, and yeah it sounds fine like You just add one contact and then attach all the data to it, not spread between submodules but rather some kind of boxes where You add all You need.

I agree that it would indeed look nice and be more handy - I will write that in "Ideas" section on my project manager.

Maybe in some distant future I can redo it - at this moment i want working project with least effort. :)

Re: Show HN: Personal Management System

#57

Looks really great. I wanted to test it but in the Installing Documentations i read this: "Installing packages You will see ALOT of errors with npm packages - ignore them, everything works anyway." Thats just not ok.

I know - I just can't fix this. I use gui: https://github.com/krzysiekpiasecki/Symfonator

It came with encore/npm - im not master of it. I just learned a bit when started working with it, and the errors are just there. I dont know why. It would take alot of time to deal with it for me.

For testing You can skip that part it's only for development mode when doing something with javascript - working version works fine with just composer installation.

Re: Show HN: Personal Management System

#59

This looks great, and I especially like the upfront and honest "Support" section. As someone who is trying to move my information under my own control at present (Rather than using and paying for multiple cloud systems) I understand the driving force behind the project and will be giving it a shot!

> Browsers Support. Chrome. I mean for real. Just Chrome. I know about bug with copying password in Firefox for example. But I just do everything in Chrome so I'm not really planning to check that on other browsers. I thought we'd left the "It works in IE" mentality behind us? Apparently not, it seems. So, considering I use almost all browsers except chrome, this project is a non starter for me.

The point is that I'm a single person working on this and I do use chrome on my own in 95% cases. It would be just time consumption for me to test it on every single browser - for now i need working product for myself - if someone would like to fix other browser based bugs - feel free. I really dont have time for that.

Re: Show HN: Personal Management System

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The admin password has been changed and it's not possible to login in now. I feel that this is pure vandalism, especially on an open source demo project.

I've fixed it for now. Yeah sorry for that, but thanks to this I implemented small protection for new file upload changes. If people messed up with password they will try to mess with .php files upload and so on - that was nice lesson.
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