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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?
#232After 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 found that my bookmark lists, to do's, notes, personal project plans, everything went stale after a time anyway, if not acted upon. It something wasn't important enough to read, study, or develop, then it really wasn't that important. Thus letting it all go was much more palatable.
This was on HN just a few days ago - http://timharford.com/2016/10/theres-magic-in-mess-why-you-s...
The short version is use piles to sort and purge the piles regularly. The "good stuff" will rise to the top and you discard the junk.
Bookmarks are just another pile...
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
Automate everything. Pay all bills with autopay. Recurring transfers to your savings accounts. Auto invest in index funds.
Sure, but how do you keep track of what you're doing? Or some random invoice that came in? Or the reminder to pick up the drycleaning tomorrow?
https://www.google.com/keep/ is fantastic for reminders. It's integrated into Google Now (So "Ok Google, remind me to do x at y") and can do time or location based reminders. You can also share tasks.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#234https://workflowy.com/
That's actually something I'm actively looking at (along with the Bullet Journal methodology). There are gaps in the use cases...but very promising!
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#235After 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.
> 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.
Oh wow, thank you! I've had the same problem you mentioned, extremely nostalgic, with a side of "emotionally connected/attached to object", and this mindset and perspective is, I believe, exactly where I need to be, and remember, when weighing the keep/let go decisions.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#236I use a personal mediawiki for large scale bodies of knowledge, like my academical studies, computing knowledge and such.
Other than that, Simplenote for notetaking on web, android.
Lastly Google Drive is heavily used for the rest.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#237Emacs. - Todo lists and reminders. org-agenda. - Bookmark lists. org-capture and org-protocol. - Kanban boards. I don't use this, but kanban.el. - Wiki. Org-mode files and grep/ag with helm. - Financial tools. ledger. - Calendar/reminders. Org-agenda. - Files on disk. dired, org-mode. - General notes. Org-mode. - Literate programming. org-babel. - Mail. mu4e. - rss. elfeed, gnus, or rss2email. - git. magit. - irc. er…
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.
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Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#238Emacs. - Todo lists and reminders. org-agenda. - Bookmark lists. org-capture and org-protocol. - Kanban boards. I don't use this, but kanban.el. - Wiki. Org-mode files and grep/ag with helm. - Financial tools. ledger. - Calendar/reminders. Org-agenda. - Files on disk. dired, org-mode. - General notes. Org-mode. - Literate programming. org-babel. - Mail. mu4e. - rss. elfeed, gnus, or rss2email. - git. magit. - irc. er…
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode#Integration lists a number of Vim extensions with OrgMode support.
... "What is the best way to avoid getting "Emacs Pinky"?" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/52492/what-is-the-best-wa...
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#239Earlier 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode#Integration lists a number of Vim extensions with OrgMode support. ... "What is the best way to avoid getting "Emacs Pinky"?" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/52492/what-is-the-best-wa...
They are all pale imitations of what org-mode offers.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
#240Earlier 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)
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…
One of my "when I find the time" project ideas is a backup-for-friends service. A p2p network for finding and connecting between home servers, so you can setup a connection to your friends. Then you can give disk space to your (authenticated) friends and they give it to you. Use that remote disk space for encrypted backups with Dropbox-like user friendlyness.