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

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

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Post by edwinyzh » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 10:27 AM UTC

tokenizerrr wrote: post #121

tekacs wrote: post #95

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It's a web app - the Mac app is only an Electron wrapper. It works well on Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android in the browser (I would know, I use it on all of those personally). Self hosted would certainly be nice - I use their 'Export All' feature to keep a copy of my spaces for myself. Incidentally I got lazy a while back and my very basic homepage ( https://tekacs.com/ ) on the web is actually a redirect to a page on N…

Oh, I see. I couldn't tell from their homepage that it was actually a web app, with the Mac download link and all screenshots looking like a Mac application. Will give it a go, then.

I got the same feeling.

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

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Post by clappski » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 10:46 AM UTC

tapan_k wrote: post #201

noir_lord wrote: post #157

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I do something similar but I gave up using org-mode (mostly because that was all I was using emacs for and I spent more time configuring the thing 'just so' than I did actually using it. Now I just keep everything in plain text and aliased it to 'tj' (todays journal). alias tj="touch ~/Dropbox/journal/$(date +%d-%m-%Y).org && code ~/Dropbox/journal/$(date +%d-%m-%Y).org" Effortless backups as well (and as a side bene…

Perhaps old fashioned, but I fill up a page of TWSBI [1] every evening, using a Sheaffer Prelude [2]. [1] http://www.twsbi.com/collections/notebooks/products/twsbi-no... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Sheaffer-Prelude-Black-Featuring-Foun...

I've never head of TWSBI, although I do enjoy Moleskine. Would you be able to give a comparison between them?

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

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Post by pps » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 11:03 AM UTC

I'm using dynalist.io - it's like workflowy, but with 1000 more features and they're working on it constantly, adding new features and improvements every week ( http://blog.dynalist.io/ )

notion.so looks also nice, but I can work more smoothly in dynalist

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

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Post by slindz » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 11:08 AM UTC

lefnire wrote: post #151

eik3_de wrote: post #73

https://workflowy.com/

+1k. Don't need anything else. I think the simplicity's a mental hump for many, as I don't get why it's not more popular.

Workflowy is incredible. It was the foundation for a system that saw me through a very productive time in my life.

I couldn't keep up with the complexity I layered in to it, so I'm building a webapp to do the mind mapping and translations to a to-do 'now' list. My biggest need was a dumping ground for all the things I knew I should be doing.

My brain is much quieter now.

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

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Post by Iv » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 12:56 PM UTC

I have an A3 sheet of paper where I note my sheet. When it is full, I copy the parts that are still relevant on a new sheet.

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

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Post by sincarne » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 2:13 PM UTC

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…

This might be close to what you're looking for: http://www.trunknotes.com

It's a wiki that runs off your iPhone. You can use it on your desktop or other computers via a built-in server. You can script it and create macros via Lua.

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

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Post by sincarne » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 2:32 PM UTC

the_jp wrote: post #66

Wunderlist was a gamechanger for me: https://www.wunderlist.com Still looking for an optimal solution for calendar though, and other information I keep in Dropbox, iCloud notes and on paper lists.

Is it still pretty good for you? My wife and I have been having sync issues with shared lists. A few zombie items (we ended up both buying coffee for home, not the worst thing), and a few items not syncing for days. This started maybe around the iOS 10 upgrade?

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

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Post by terheyden » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 2:35 PM UTC

atmosx wrote: post #197

jyriand wrote: post #160

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Maybe this http://tiddlywiki.com/

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

Discontinued? It has over 100 contributors, and the last stable release was two months ago ... I think it is very much alive: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5

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

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Post by whiteandnerdy » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 3:17 PM UTC

gcr wrote: post #150

erelde wrote: post #132

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

You monster. :-) Backing up a folder of daypages is easy though. Backing up a cloud service like Evernote or Trello sounds more difficult...

Evernote supports XML and HTML export. I have mine on external drive and in Dropbox. Migrating to a new platform would be horrible, but at least the data's there.

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

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Post by hypertexthero » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 3:53 PM UTC

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).

Yes. Something like:

1. Download and install a wiki application to each computer we use, including pocket ones.

2. Editing the wiki on each computer saves to offline local storage.

3. An option to define a personal central server is available in settings. If this is activated and our login credentials are set each app auto-syncs with server automatically whenever wifi is available or a 'sync' button on the top-right of the viewport is activated. Furthermore, an open source example implementation of this server, perhaps powered by sandstorm.io and Google App Engine, is made available.

In other words, an open source app on each owned computing device editable using WikiWords that automatically create /w/WikiWords pages, synchronized across devices. Bonus points for eventual options to publish a version of the wiki and make it editable by anyone, perhaps using [Git](https://github.com/gollum/gollum/).

I got this idea from the Manage Your Knowledge section of Andy Hunt's [Pragmatic Thinking and Learning](https://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learn...), that I warmly recommend to anyone interested in learning.