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

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Post by tokenizerrr »

tekacs wrote: post #95
tokenizerrr wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got excited for a moment, but then I saw Notion is only for Mac and also not self hosted. :(

It's a web app - the Mac app is only an Electron wrapper. It works well on Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android in the browser (I would know, I use it on all of those personally). Self hosted would certainly be nice - I use their 'Export All' feature to keep a copy of my spaces for myself. Incidentally I got lazy a while back and my very basic homepage ( https://tekacs.com/ ) on the web is actually a redirect to a page on N…

Oh, I see. I couldn't tell from their homepage that it was actually a web app, with the Mac download link and all screenshots looking like a Mac application.

Will give it a go, then.

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Post by aszantu »

I have a box on my desk for Ideas, I use a calendar for appointments, since most of my work is just learning how to draw certain things that's something I just do without any system. I use anchors everywhere - eg. instead of to do listing them, I put items somewhere where I have to take them with me next time I leave the room

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Post by postscapes1 »

I have been using a service called Airtable.com (no affiliation) lately to organize tasks and projects.

It is like Google spreadsheet and Trello made babies in my book when you utilize it's ability to add filtered Views and connect and link data across tables.

Attachments from other services, calendar views and ability to do low level formulas are other standout features imho and it just seems to fit how I actually think better than any service out there.

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Post by CalRobert »

WWKong wrote: post #5

After years of failed attempts I gave up trying to organize everything and started to brutally eliminate most of it. It has been pretty liberating.

I used to hate getting rid of anything. Then I realized that for most of this stuff, odds were I was never going to look at it again between now and when I die. It's kind of morbid, but makes it easier to get rid of that folder of things I meant to read from 3 years ago, or that box of artifacts from my past that has remained unopened through 3 apartment moves.

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

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Post by iyn »

tekacs wrote: post #91

I now use Notion ( https://notion.so/ , I'm not affiliated) to replace all of the below tools that I have used in the past. - To do lists (prev. Org mode, OmniFocus, Things, many others) - Bookmark lists (prev. raindrop.io, Pinboard, others) - Kanban boards (prev. GitLab, Trello, others) - Wikis (prev. MediaWiki, Confluence, TiddlyWiki, etc.) - General notes (prev. my own tool, OneNote, Evernote, Simplenote, many oth…

Wow, this looks really good, thank you for sharing! Can the files feature be integrated with Dropbox/GDrive (I can't find this on their page)?

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

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Post by agilebyte »

1) A Google Doc that has different headings like Inbox, High/Medium/Low Priority, Scheduled and then Notes. I've been using this for 2 years and wanted to write an app that would extract the dates from the Scheduled category into a calendar, but found out a simple document such as it is is sufficient.

2) I don't. If it doesn't fit into the above-mentioned 2 page document it's not important enough to be categorized. Categorisation (control) used to be a major source of stress in my life.

3) For academic paper/thesis writing I am actually working on a software to organize all research/quotes and then keep references to them in a "main document". Contact me if you'd like to know more.

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Post by modoc »

While I understand the desire for a single integrated tool, I think it's better to use the right tool for each job. Especially since people work/think differently, the best way to handle a ToDo list for you may not work for me. Similar to the UNIX tool philosophy I think each person needs their own collection of tools to solve that long list of problems.

For me:

OmniFocus for ToDos/Reminders and synced issues from JIRA (work) and GitHub (personal projects)

Evernote for taking notes, capturing webpages/blog posts I want to save/read later

DevonThink for going paperless at home. Scanning everything that comes into the house.

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Post by mezod »

I made/use http://www.multikanban.com for kanban boards and general notes

I made/use http://listlogs.com for bookmark lists, logs of what I read, etc

With these two tools I basically have everything I need. Not trying to convince anyone here, they are just quite custom made for my needs :)

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

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Post by tekacs »

iyn wrote: post #125
tekacs wrote: post #91

I now use Notion ( https://notion.so/ , I'm not affiliated) to replace all of the below tools that I have used in the past. - To do lists (prev. Org mode, OmniFocus, Things, many others) - Bookmark lists (prev. raindrop.io, Pinboard, others) - Kanban boards (prev. GitLab, Trello, others) - Wikis (prev. MediaWiki, Confluence, TiddlyWiki, etc.) - General notes (prev. my own tool, OneNote, Evernote, Simplenote, many oth…

Wow, this looks really good, thank you for sharing! Can the files feature be integrated with Dropbox/GDrive (I can't find this on their page)?

I'm not sure whether you mean importing files from Dropbox/GDrive to Notion or vice versa! Neither is possible, as far as I'm aware.

You /can/ have it grab a file from a link - if you can get the raw file link from Dropbox (maybe the share link?), you can import files that way.

They seem to be adding features at a very high clip, so it's also possible to just ask them and it wouldn't surprise me if they added it within a few weeks.

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