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

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Post by tekacs »

favadi wrote: post #187
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.

Dropbox Paper was a flop for me - this is /several orders of magnitude/ more flexible.

Note how many products I mentioned it replacing - I maintained a MediaWiki instance of my own for /years/ and dropped it alongside half a dozen other tools because I didn't need them when using Notion.

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Post by palunon »

nextos wrote: post #72
patrickdavey wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Org-Mode is the one thing that makes me want to move from vim to emacs.. but I just don't feel like investing the time in getting proficient with emacs at this stage.

It's not as difficult as it seems. Actually I'd say that if you already know GNU Readline shortcuts (which are very helpful on e.g. Bash), it's an afternoon of work to learn the basics. The problem is that most tutorials depict emacs as a bag of keyboard shortcuts. But in reality, there are some simple principles that are quite understandable. And org-mode is so underappreciated. You can turn it into anything. I use…

>The problem is that most tutorials depict emacs as a bag of keyboard shortcuts. But in reality, there are some simple principles that are quite understandable.

Do you know one that doesn't ?

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

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Post by kanbannoman »

nextos wrote: post #72
patrickdavey wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Org-Mode is the one thing that makes me want to move from vim to emacs.. but I just don't feel like investing the time in getting proficient with emacs at this stage.

It's not as difficult as it seems. Actually I'd say that if you already know GNU Readline shortcuts (which are very helpful on e.g. Bash), it's an afternoon of work to learn the basics. The problem is that most tutorials depict emacs as a bag of keyboard shortcuts. But in reality, there are some simple principles that are quite understandable. And org-mode is so underappreciated. You can turn it into anything. I use…

Do you mind telling me how you use kanban? I tried kanban.el but couldnt get it to update and populate the table, is there any way that emacs can auto-update live the kanban board based on todo states of items?? (e.g. if you hit shift + right for todo it is automatically seen in the todo column, without having to revert the file?)

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

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Post by chrisanthropic »

I've recently begun migrating most everything to a self-hosted GitLab CE.

This gives me: - A Git interface. - Integrated Kanban board - Integrated Wiki - Integrated CI - Integrated Slack Clone (Mattermost)

I now use Mattermost channels to handle most notes, bookmarks, etc.

I use the kanban board for ToDo lists.

I use the Wiki to document damn near everything.

I've also recently started using Amazon Drive ($60/year for truly unlimited storage) to backup everything. I run it on my NAS which hosts all of my local media and daily backups of all household computers.

Amazon Drive also includes Amazon Photos. Both services have web and mobile apps.

I use combinations of Mattermost and AWS Lambda to schedule/trigger things. (Build and deploy the wife's weekly webcomic every Wednesday at 8am, for example)

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Post by atmosx »

jyriand wrote: post #160
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…

Maybe this http://tiddlywiki.com/

I use tiddlywiki and I am very happy with it. Too bad dev has been discontinued though,

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

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Post by DavideNL »

dangoor wrote: post #116
DavideNL wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I didn't know they added this feature, that's actually really cool. Especially since their code is also open source.

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Post by crawfordcomeaux »

BeetleB wrote: post #174
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'm going through the phase now of simplifying my life and getting rid of stuff. Very difficult. I'm by nature a very nostalgic person. Hard to part with items that brought me so much joy. However, I came to the realization: Those items, while they gave me joy in the past, are literally preventing new experiences, and new sources of joy. Need to make room for the future, and the only way is to throw stuff away.

This is literally what I'm doing today with the guidance of Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying."
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