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Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

#61
If it is super important, I write it down in a hard bound journal. I find things get lost in digital note keeping apps. Yes you can search, but there is no structure to the data so you get back a whole bunch of unordered keyword matches.

I often thought that store some information as Prolog facts would make it more accessible while being somewhat structured. I have not had time to build a proof of concept on this.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

#62
I'm piggy backing on this.

I still have found my holy grail : a kind of knowledge management software where I could just stuff things probably with tags. Not only links (I have pinboard for that) but ideas, snippets of knowledge etc.

This would be online (not necessarily self-hosted) and I'm willing to pay for that.

Accessible via smartphones and potentially with an email gateway would be great.

I don't think mindmapping software fit the bill. I really would like tag and/or full-text search.

Wikis come close but it's quite cumbersome to add a piece of info.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

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post #62

I'm piggy backing on this. I still have found my holy grail : a kind of knowledge management software where I could just stuff things probably with tags. Not only links (I have pinboard for that) but ideas, snippets of knowledge etc. This would be online (not necessarily self-hosted) and I'm willing to pay for that. Accessible via smartphones and potentially with an email gateway would be great. I don't think mindmap…

Evernote seems to meet each of these requirements.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

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post #62

I'm piggy backing on this. I still have found my holy grail : a kind of knowledge management software where I could just stuff things probably with tags. Not only links (I have pinboard for that) but ideas, snippets of knowledge etc. This would be online (not necessarily self-hosted) and I'm willing to pay for that. Accessible via smartphones and potentially with an email gateway would be great. I don't think mindmap…

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Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

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post #61

If it is super important, I write it down in a hard bound journal. I find things get lost in digital note keeping apps. Yes you can search, but there is no structure to the data so you get back a whole bunch of unordered keyword matches. I often thought that store some information as Prolog facts would make it more accessible while being somewhat structured. I have not had time to build a proof of concept on this.

I do a combo of a little notebook I always carry around and iPhone Notes. Simple!

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

#67
- flat file markdown wiki, md files synced to my phone with managed owncloud. Has a few main categories just to avoid the need to tag. i use it for todo, long written texts (writing my thesis in there), song sheets, arty collections, recommendations, documentation etc.

- managed owncloud for calendar

- managed, but small and lovely email provider with catch all on my own domain

- semi managed hosting (shared server with multiple non root users and ssh, unique thing) for website and quick online sharing of text or screenshots (upload via shareX+ftp)

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

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post #52

Aside for scheduled items (they go in a calendar) and program-specific things (bookmarks go in Firefox), everything's a file. Unscheduled todo goes into ~/todo. Documents are in ~/d/org where org is the organization (school/company name). There are often subfolders, like subject name for school. Archive in ~/d/org/_archive/year. If a project is still running, it is still in the ~/d/org root, not in the archive, regar…

How do you handle backups? I have a similar structure but on Google Drive (minus TODOs, for which I use Google Keep)

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

#70

Self-developed solution that gives a hierarchical structure to to-dos, reminders, and related information: https://nachapp.com For anything which I can't figure out a way to tie to one of my current goals, a helpful general rule of thumb is that, it may not actually be that important to hold on to. There are of course exceptions, but they're few enough that a nice folder structure on my hard drive can catch the rest.…

Nice idea. Is there a self-hosted option?
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