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Ask HN: What's your way of saving/recollecting important career notes?

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Re: Ask HN: What's your way of saving/recollecting important career notes?

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Post by zaptheimpaler »

This might be off-base, but i think your problem is not about storing information, more about keeping all that info in your mind so you can apply it. I tend to have an itch to catalogue and store information, but it quickly reveals that the constraint is time and what I can keep in my head rather than the info i have squirreled away somewhere.

The key is to understand that organizing/filtering the relevant info is a separate task from cataloguing. I spend a little time every week doing that.

Tools -

https://workflowy.com/ - hierarchial lists, very useful! to keep track of important todos/things to remember in the week.

ultra.work/lights-generator (thats a URL) - to track habits that i want to do every day.

Re: Ask HN: What's your way of saving/recollecting important career notes?

#12

Post by sigi45 »

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #11

This might be off-base, but i think your problem is not about storing information, more about keeping all that info in your mind so you can apply it. I tend to have an itch to catalogue and store information, but it quickly reveals that the constraint is time and what I can keep in my head rather than the info i have squirreled away somewhere. The key is to understand that organizing/filtering the relevant info is a…

Wow that's a nice way of handling lists.

Re: Ask HN: What's your way of saving/recollecting important career notes?

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Post by anudeep2011 »

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #11

This might be off-base, but i think your problem is not about storing information, more about keeping all that info in your mind so you can apply it. I tend to have an itch to catalogue and store information, but it quickly reveals that the constraint is time and what I can keep in my head rather than the info i have squirreled away somewhere. The key is to understand that organizing/filtering the relevant info is a…

That's right. I do not have problem storing information. I use workflowy already.

Thanks for sharing lights-generator. Checking it out.

Re: Ask HN: What's your way of saving/recollecting important career notes?

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Post by m2n037 »

anudeep2011 wrote: post #6
m2n037 wrote: post #4

I do almost the same thing with pocket and GitHub. I use Pocket to save articles. I slack in tagging them but sometimes sit down and tag all the untagged items at once. About going back, I have recently started taking notes from them in a Github readme so that I can just go back to the readme and find the appropriate one to see. I have only recently started doing this as the number of saved articles have become overw…

This is similar to what I do, save brief notes about important stuff. I hardly save links. Mostly it's a line or 2 from the link that I save.

You can always put the link along with the lines so that you can still access it.

Re: Ask HN: What's your way of saving/recollecting important career notes?

#18

Post by akulbe »

gt_ wrote: post #13
akulbe wrote: post #5

I'd recommend looking into Standard Notes. Cross-platform, and mobile. I really like it. http://standardnotes.org

Looks great. I wonder how it compares with Evernote. It looks lighter, which is nice.

It definitely doesn't have all the whistles and bells of Evernote, but maybe all the OCR and stuff isn't what you're after?

Re: Ask HN: What's your way of saving/recollecting important career notes?

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Post by tzm »

I use DevonThink for full text indexing of PDF, web links, docs, RSS feeds, etc as part of a local knowledge base. Syncs to mobile as well, so I have access to key info when traveling. I organize content into logical groups for various projects or research areas.

http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/devonth...

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