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

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Post by dvcrn »

gcr wrote: post #90

Honestly, I just keep everything in a journal. I have a folder called "daypages" in my dropbox. Each day in my life becomes a file in this folder. Today's is "daypages/2016-10-26.org" That's about it. I don't really organize by project much. Each day typically covers the tasks that I intend to get done that day, along with places I've been / friends I've met. The occasional tearful journal entry punctuates the otherw…

I'm doing something similar but use the mac/iphone app "Day One" version 1 for it (Not version 2 that requires you to sync with their proprietary cloud).

During the day I write down bullet points and roughly outline what happened. Then on the next day noon, or same day evening if I feel like it, I fill out the points and write a full page.

For tasks I am using GTD (OmniFocus and lately Things). Every thought I have of something I should do, I quickly capture through Siri in OmniFocus/Things or use the global system shortcuts. All few hours I go through my GTD inbox, schedule tasks, create events, delegate if necessary and get to "Inbox Zero".

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

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Post by walterbell »

2Do (http://2doapp.com) on iOS/Mac/Android with devices synced to self-hosted CalDav server (http://sabre.io) on Linux. 2Do can deep link to other iOS apps/docs. It can auto-create tasks from email using regex filters. Multi-year track record of regular updates, privacy-oriented design, robust with large number of items.

Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com) for docs/ebook management (metadata), with Recoll (https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/) for full-text and metadata search on Linux.

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

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Post by musicmatze »

I am developing a CLI-PIM suite (commandline personal information management suite) called imag[1].

The goal of the tool is to use known commandline tools (for example taskwarrior (todo), khal (icalendar), khard (vcard), beancount (financial data), mutt (Maildir actually) and so on) and give the user the possibility to (semantically) connect the data of these tools. Then, one can do data mining on PIM data.

imag[1] is in pre-alpha shape and only few things are there by now. 3 days ago I released version 0.2.0 with tools (we call them "modules") for the following "pim aspects": bookmark, counter (this was a first example module), diary, link (to semantically link data), notes, ref (to refer to files outside of the "imag store"), store (to do plumbing in the "imag store"), tag (to add tags to data), todo (basic integration for taskwarrior) and view (to view entries from the "imag store").

As said, we are in a really early stage of development and only few things are there yet. This is a hobby project I'm working on in my free time (also to learn Rust) and I only can make progress if I have enough time to do things.

I also write blog[2] articles about imag every two weeks about what's currently going on in the codebase. Read about a use-case I'm thinking about in one of my blog posts[3] - and yes, these are really ambitious goals!

Feel free to ask questions!

Edit: Fixed link markup. Sorry about that.

[1]: https://github.com/matthiasbeyer/imag [2]: http://beyermatthias.de/tags/imag.html [3]: http://beyermatthias.de/blog/2016/08/07/imag-usecases/

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

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Post by CalRobert »

lucb1e wrote: post #96
mcjiggerlog wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yeah that has been an issue for years now. I want encrypted, incremental, off-site backups with an open source client. That's basically it. Duplicity and a few other tools fit the bill, but contrary to what Duplicity seems to think, my SSD does not have >10 GB of spare storage that can be occupied permanently. Oh and prices of S3 or higher are ridiculous (even AWS Glacier is expensive compared to just hosting a hard…

I'm not a big fan of amazon, but you could try Cloud drive with acdcli. $60 a year for "unlimited" (but subject to whatever limitations they care to impose) storage.

I did find that doing several hundred GB of uploads with acdcli appeared to result in being throttled, but if you're doing daily diffs or the like you ought to be ok.

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

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Post by dangoor »

DavideNL wrote: post #85
jonshariat wrote: post #16

GTF(Getting Things Done) method with OmniFocus Boagworld has a great video on his setup and how it all works: https://boagworld.com/working-in-web/omnifocus-2/ Getting things done book: https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Produ... OmniFocus: https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus

i really like the Omnifocus app, however i dislike that the only way to sync across devices is to use their private servers, which means sending/sharing all your private stuff with them. Technically they could easily sync via iCloud and encrypt the stored data, but of course for financial reasons companies prefer to be able to access and sell all your data...

Omnifocus does [end-to-end encryption](https://www.omnigroup.com/blog/omnifocus-now-supports-end-to...) now. They have no reason to access and sell your data because they have a healthy business model built around premium priced apps.

I think the reason a lot of companies don't use iCloud is because some of the various ways in which iCloud worked have not always been reliable or suited to the task at hand.

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

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Post by jsulak »

DavideNL wrote: post #85
jonshariat wrote: post #16

GTF(Getting Things Done) method with OmniFocus Boagworld has a great video on his setup and how it all works: https://boagworld.com/working-in-web/omnifocus-2/ Getting things done book: https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Produ... OmniFocus: https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus

i really like the Omnifocus app, however i dislike that the only way to sync across devices is to use their private servers, which means sending/sharing all your private stuff with them. Technically they could easily sync via iCloud and encrypt the stored data, but of course for financial reasons companies prefer to be able to access and sell all your data...

FWIW, you can set up OmniFocus to sync using a WebDAV server you control.

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

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Post by gcr »

dsschnau wrote: post #110
gcr wrote: post #90

Honestly, I just keep everything in a journal. I have a folder called "daypages" in my dropbox. Each day in my life becomes a file in this folder. Today's is "daypages/2016-10-26.org" That's about it. I don't really organize by project much. Each day typically covers the tasks that I intend to get done that day, along with places I've been / friends I've met. The occasional tearful journal entry punctuates the otherw…

i had no idea that emacs had so many features (from this and other comments).

This system doesn't really require emacs. The general idea is to assign keybindings to jump to today's daypage, the previous file, and the next file. Being able to create a daypage that doesn't exist is helpful (but not necessary -- you could create 300 of them with a shell script once a year), and being able to search for things in a folder is also helpful.

You can implement that with your favorite text editor. You could do it with Notepad and AutoHotkey if you were persistent.

Org-mode adds organization, but honestly I benefit from its syntax highlighting and the bragging rights more than anything else. :-)

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

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Post by gcr »

thro1237 wrote: post #102
gcr wrote: post #90

Honestly, I just keep everything in a journal. I have a folder called "daypages" in my dropbox. Each day in my life becomes a file in this folder. Today's is "daypages/2016-10-26.org" That's about it. I don't really organize by project much. Each day typically covers the tasks that I intend to get done that day, along with places I've been / friends I've met. The occasional tearful journal entry punctuates the otherw…

Mind sharing how you do this on emacs? (Forwarding to the next day)?

I'm using a tweaked version of this package: https://github.com/almost/org-daypage/blob/master/org-daypag...

The important keybindings to set are for `todays-daypage`, `daypage-next`, and `daypage-prev`.

On top of this, I use `helm-git-grep` for incremental searching.

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