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

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Post by dottedmag »

cloverich wrote: post #152
hypertexthero wrote: post #140

* 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 plea…

> and keeps your information synchronized between them. Is the implication that the browser-based wiki is not storing your data on a central server (e.g. always synced) but should provide some other way to sync? (I'm working on something in this ballpark, genuine curiosity).

Just having offline mode would be quite often enough.

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

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Post by themoonbus »

* Evernote for web articles I find interesting (I love the web clipper), and for random notes

* Sometimes Google Keep for other random notes.

* Wunderlist for long term todos

* Apple Reminders for "remember the milk" type reminders

* Trello for work & personal projects

* Mint for budgeting

* Google calendar for calendar things

* Dropbox for cloud photo storage from my phone (may switch to Google photos at some point)

* Backblaze for offsite backup

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

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Post by rayalez »

I use emacs with org-mode.

I have a file where I keep project ideas organized by category(webdev, ML, writing, etc).

And I have a file where I keep my daily notes(I write down most of my thoughts, it helps me to focus).

In that file, I use tags like:

- #pst and #vid for blog posts and video ideas

- #prj and #sup for project and startup ideas

- #ftr (or #bug) for feature ideas for my projects

- #link for useful links

- #jok for great jokes I've encountered or came up with.

That way I can always search through this file and easily find information I wrote down years ago.

I also put symbols >> and >>>> at the beginning of the most important ideas, so that I can easily search and find the most important epiphanies I've had this month/year.

Also, I highly recommend an app called Editorial for iOS. I use it constantly, it's incredibly powerful, and has amazing automation features. I can create shortcuts to auto-insert current date, some tags, etc. I can search through all of the dropbox files, and I can write python scripts to automate any text manipulation. It's amazing.

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

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Post by dottedmag »

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...

In addition to the comment about private WebDAV (which took me 10 minutes to setup and as a side effect made the synchronisation much faster by using geographically closer server), OmniFocus can encrypt the data synced.

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

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Post by jurassic »

It's not a perfect system, but I find index cards to be superior to notebooks in almost every way. Notebooks are good for linear content, but for most of what you described index cards are better because they are modular, fileable, and sortable. Before the Internet, the world ran on index cards.

Cool quote in a book? Put it on a card and file it by theme. Reminder about feedback I want to write up for a colleague? Put it on a card. I did something really great at work and want to remember it at annual review time? Put it on a card and file it under Personal Achievement. Etc. Recipes, Writing ideas, presentation first drafts. Cards work well for all of that.

I'm really using a combination of two systems. The first is Ryan Holiday's index card system for harvesting the wisdom and interesting bits from reading. The second is an index card version of the 43 folders tickler file. It's not a perfect system, but I love t and I like that it is something I can keep doing forever independent of any stupid decisions by Apple or app developers going under.

To get started you need:

- Some nice index cards. I like the Exacompta ones.

- Tabbed divider cards. Smead makes really nice ones.

- A way to carry some with you all the time. Right now I'm using the Nock Co Fodderstack for this.

- A way to file them. You can get some crappy boxes on Amazon, or something nice and vintage off eBay or elsewhere. Index cards used to be a lot more widely used than they are today, so the old selection of index card furniture is much better than what's available new.

http://ryanholiday.net/the-notecard-system-the-key-for-remem...

http://ryanholiday.net/how-and-why-to-keep-a-commonplace-boo...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file

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

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Post by favadi »

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…

It looks very similar to Dropbox Paper.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by graeme »

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…

Does it have exports and backups? And do you know how long they've been around?

It looks very tempting, but I want to know whether they'll be around a while. I know I can rely on trello and onenote.

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