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

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Post by anorakgirl »

BeetleB wrote: post #203
crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I like the book. However, I wonder how effective it is in the long run. Is it legitimate or is it just selling a dream? A while ago I posted a question on all the top reviews of the book on Amazon: After 6 months/1 year, is their house still tidy, or was it not really sustainable? Very few responses, but I think one person said it was sustainable, and no one said it wasn't.

Read it a year ago, my sock drawer is still tidy...

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

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Post by Jonovono »

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…

I want to like Notion. It's great in theory but it's not ready yet, at least for me. It does a lot which is awesome but doesn't seem to do any of those things great. I love all the different formats of things it supports / handles though.

I need something that is easy to use on mobile.

If it's supposed to replace my bookmark tool I need to be able to add a bookmark with one click and categorize it etc. Same with my todo list and general notes.

Will follow the project though.

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

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Post by cableshaft »

tmaly wrote: post #61

If it is super important, I write it down in a hard bound journal. I find things get lost in digital note keeping apps. Yes you can search, but there is no structure to the data so you get back a whole bunch of unordered keyword matches. I often thought that store some information as Prolog facts would make it more accessible while being somewhat structured. I have not had time to build a proof of concept on this.

Hmmm, Prolog to store facts about your projects. That's an interesting thought. Been awhile since I've messed about with Prolog (was in school). I liked it then, but couldn't come up with a good use case for it in my everyday programming.

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

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Post by lcall »

The purpose behind http://onemodel.org is just this. The problem we have stems from working on piles of words, which makes knowledge hard to compute. The idea of http://onemodel.org is to treat knowledge at an atomic level, but still very efficiently for a human, so we don't have the constraints of other systems. More info under the "About" and other links at the web site. It's visually ugly and no mobile support yet but I use it daily and I (the author) think the ideas are needed.

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

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Post by BeetleB »

anorakgirl wrote: post #211
BeetleB wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the book. However, I wonder how effective it is in the long run. Is it legitimate or is it just selling a dream? A while ago I posted a question on all the top reviews of the book on Amazon: After 6 months/1 year, is their house still tidy, or was it not really sustainable? Very few responses, but I think one person said it was sustainable, and no one said it wasn't.

Read it a year ago, my sock drawer is still tidy...

OK, how about the rest of your house?

My mess is usually not with clothes, but with tables full of stuff, cabinets full of stuff, garage full of stuff, etc.

Did you go through a phase of getting rid of stuff, and then in the subsequent year, managed not to add more stuff to fill in the space you through away?

(And how bad was your house/apartment before KonMari?)

Honest question.

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

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Post by anorakgirl »

BeetleB wrote: post #216
anorakgirl wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Read it a year ago, my sock drawer is still tidy...

OK, how about the rest of your house? My mess is usually not with clothes, but with tables full of stuff, cabinets full of stuff, garage full of stuff, etc. Did you go through a phase of getting rid of stuff, and then in the subsequent year, managed not to add more stuff to fill in the space you through away? (And how bad was your house/apartment before KonMari?) Honest question.

TBH the sock drawer is the most successful outcome :) The rest of the house - I threw out a lot of stuff, but didn't bottom it. It was definitely worthwhile and I need to resume. The problem is, you're not allowed to throw out other people's stuff; 2 kids and a husband quickly fill spaces and what the book says about them learning by your example doesn't seem to have worked...

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

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Post by [deleted] »

BeetleB wrote: post #216
anorakgirl wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Read it a year ago, my sock drawer is still tidy...

OK, how about the rest of your house? My mess is usually not with clothes, but with tables full of stuff, cabinets full of stuff, garage full of stuff, etc. Did you go through a phase of getting rid of stuff, and then in the subsequent year, managed not to add more stuff to fill in the space you through away? (And how bad was your house/apartment before KonMari?) Honest question.

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

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Post by vermaden »

> * To do lists/Reminders

I use a file called ~/TODO for that in this format:

  |  % cat ~/TODO
  |  == EASY ==
  |    todo/no/progress
  |  . task/some/progress
  |  x task/done
  |
  |  == MEDM ==
  |    todo/no/progress
  |  . task/some/progress
  |  x task/done
  |
  |  == HARD ==
  |    todo/no/progress
  |  . task/some/progress
  |  x task/done
> * Bookmark lists

I use a file called ~/SITES for that in this format:

  |  % cat ~/SITES
  |
  |  begin category
  |    http://link link name
  |    http://link more interesting link
  |    begin subcategory
  |      http://link link name
  |      http://link more interesting link
  |    end
  |  end
I then generate HTML file SITES.htm with 'clickable' links with a script from that file in cron(1) hourly.

> * Financial tools

Just a XLS file with GNUMERIC/LIBREOFFICE for editions.

> * Calenders/Reminders

I use a file called ~/CAL for that in this format:

  | % cat ~/CAL
  | 09/28  c  car/something
  | 10/04  B  birthday/someone
  | 10/08  x  some/event/other
  | 10/12  N  some/name/event
  | 11/10  B  birthday/someone/else
... and everytime I spawn a new xterm(1) terminal a script that parses ~/CAL starts with 21 days upfront to remind me what I have to remember, like that

  | ==
  |     TODAY IS 10/26  B  birthday/someone
  | 15 day(s) to 11/10  B  birthday/someone/else
  | 22:54|hostname|dir % _
  | ==
> * Files on disk

ZFS with LZ4 compression + GELI encryption on FreeBSD.

Regards,

vermaden

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

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Post by codethief »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #94
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)

I have a similar-ish setup and use rsync.net. Ask for the HN discount.

I was going to suggest rsync.net as well. That, and attic/borg for the actual backups.

See http://www.rsync.net/products/attic.html for the discount (3ct/GB/month).

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