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

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

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Post by jamesisaac »

amelius wrote: post #70
jamesisaac wrote: post #54

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?

Nope, sorry, I'm fully focused on the SaaS model. If it helps at all, I've tried to remove as many concerns as I can associated with storing these kind of things in something cloud-based. See the list of pledges on the homepage, and the privacy policy.

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

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Post by erelde »

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…

PSA: if you like a thrill, don't do backups of your journal.

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

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Post by iyn »

tekacs wrote: post #130
iyn wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 with…

Thanks for the answer. I meant export in the sense that I could have a backup of all files stored on the separate cloud hosting.

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

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Post by lucb1e »

CalRobert wrote: post #115
lucb1e wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks for the suggestion, I didn't know of ACD. Some issues on first glance though:

- The $60 is €70. I think someone got the conversion rate backwards;

- Acdcli does not seem to be able to actually write any files? The Github page mentions v0.1 is read-only and v0.2 should be able to write files. The current version is v0.1.

- Actually, acdcli does not seem to do anything like incremental backups or encryption, it's just a CLI to ACD.

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

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Post by saiya-jin »

hammock wrote: post #97

You forgot: * Google Basically I give everything over to them and rely on their suite of services. It has worked out really well actually. And in fact isn't it their mission to organize the world's information?

no, its selling ads. just that if you have all the information possible, on everybody, in organized manner, selling ads works a bit better

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

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Post by howeyc »

I've given up on a whole unifying program or application. I've also been burned by either closed source apps or web apps. Very hard to get your data if support stops or you just don't have it. I try to stay as close to plain text as possible these days.

Bookmarks - Pinboard with weekly backup to json/text.

Notes - A bunch of markdown files in folders (diary,projects,etc). Every day is a new file. I have @tags littered all over my notes for searching. Beauty is that there are many apps that can write markdown and search plain text.

Finance - ledger-cli, well, actually my own version with better reporting abilities, in my opinion.

Task management - to-do.txt. Again, many apps to choose from to manage the file.

Syncthing - Sync all of the above everywhere, plus other stuff.

Backup - restic and rclone.

Also, everything I've mentioned is cross-platform. Maybe not the application, but the source data is, and has an application that can modify it on almost every platform.

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

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Post by hypertexthero »

* Pencil (usually a small, well-used stub that fits in a shirt pocket) and paper (various notebooks, from Target pocket-size spiral-bounds to Moleskin to whatever is at hand)

* Camera - https://www.simongriffee.com/photography/

* Simplenote - https://simplenote.com/ and Notational Velocity - http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

* Website with tags powered by Hugo static generator - https://gohugo.io/

Someone please make a browser-based wiki that works offline (HTML5 local storage) and can be used on any computer, including pocket ones like iPhones, and keeps your information synchronized between them.

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