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Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by mcphage »

agentultra wrote: post #11

For my own work: A Leuchtterm1917 dotted notebook + mechanical pencil + ink/gel hybrid pen. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ENUIKC/ref=s9_acsd_hps... For work I do under employment I tend to use org-mode and publish to whatever format suits them best. Often one of PDF, HTML, or Markdown. I have been experimenting with using an org-mode based publishing system that syncs with my ReMarkable... it is taking over s…

> A Leuchtterm1917 dotted notebook + mechanical pencil + ink/gel hybrid pen

How well does the pencil write on the Leuchtterm1917? I've definitely noticed that a lot of the notebooks people talk about—those by Rhodia, for instance—are great for using pens, but they don't have enough tooth for pencils to write well. I think I remember feeling the pages of the Leuchtterm in a bookstore and noticing the same smoothness, so I didn't pick one up. Was I mistaken?

Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by wilkystyle »

alienreborn wrote: post #14

Used to use Quiver ( http://happenapps.com/ ) but now switched to Bear Notes ( http://www.bear-writer.com/ ). Both support Markdown and Syntax Highlighting. Quiver is lot more full featured programmer's notebook but I like Bear because its light and I prefer tag system.

Another happy Bear user here. Markdown, syncing, and tags all work really well.

The downside is that it's Apple-only at the moment. It's not a problem for me right now since I'm deep in the Apple ecosystem, but I'm keeping my eyes open for alternatives that are as polished as Bear, but are cross-platform.

Worst-case scenario, Bear can dump out to markdown files on disk (images too) if I ever need to migrate to something else.

Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by sudouser »

j_s wrote: post #40

I am interested in personal experiences/anecdata documenting what happens to these collections when the collector dies. So much effort invested! I plan to make sure organizational time pays off in the short term, and need to work up a 'site map' for my various digital collections (in the off chance anyone cares after I'm gone). Sharing as much as possible starts to make sense in the long term, so classifying what "mu…

i've seen free blogs used such as blogspot or wordpress, i might go that route.

Also GitHub gists have been of great help.

Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by yodon »

vijucat wrote: post #6

OneNote. The hierarchical breakdown of Notebook, Section, and Pages is quite useful. I use one page as a linear, chronological "Plan for today" journal, with links to subject matter on other Pages that naturally get organized into Sections (ML learning, Coursera - Scala, Health, Attitude / Thinking, etc;). Evernote's Search is much better than OneNote's (Windows' Search), searching seamlessly even inside attachments,…

The one thing I hate about OneNote is that the internal links are inexcusably weak in that if I change the name of a destination page all links to that page break. Seriously, wtf is with a boneheaded move like that? (Hopefully someone here can tell me they finally fixed that idiotic deal breaker, as OneNote is otherwise so close to perfect in my eyes)

Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by yodon »

zimablue wrote: post #18

I've spend a long time trying different methods of doing this. I briefly investigated tiddlywiki, used OneNote heavily for a while. Currently I'm migrating to using JupyterLab notebooks on an ec2 instance with IP whitelisting. It works pretty well, I have a kind of dream to connect it to a Datomic server instead of using filesystem notebooks and have relational notes.

Azure offers free Jupyter notebooks if that’s of interest

Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by fiveFeet »

I use vim " rel="nofollow">http://www.vim.org/> and zim " rel="nofollow">http://zim-wiki.org> to maintain my collection of notes which are primarily text. Both tools work well on Linux and Windows.

Zim is great if you need some type of markup (ex:- hyper links, bullet points etc.,). Vim is great for plain text.

If the notes are private but need to be shared across multiple machines, I create a private gitlab project.

If the notes are public, I either create a github project or put them on a public wiki where only I can edit. For the public wiki, I am using an account on shoutwiki " rel="nofollow">http://www.shoutwiki.com> .

Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by agentultra »

mcphage wrote: post #41
agentultra wrote: post #11

For my own work: A Leuchtterm1917 dotted notebook + mechanical pencil + ink/gel hybrid pen. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ENUIKC/ref=s9_acsd_hps... For work I do under employment I tend to use org-mode and publish to whatever format suits them best. Often one of PDF, HTML, or Markdown. I have been experimenting with using an org-mode based publishing system that syncs with my ReMarkable... it is taking over s…

> A Leuchtterm1917 dotted notebook + mechanical pencil + ink/gel hybrid pen How well does the pencil write on the Leuchtterm1917? I've definitely noticed that a lot of the notebooks people talk about—those by Rhodia, for instance—are great for using pens, but they don't have enough tooth for pencils to write well. I think I remember feeling the pages of the Leuchtterm in a bookstore and noticing the same smoothness,…

Works well with HB or darker leads just fine. If you're that kind of person Leuchtturm even makes branded pencils to go with their books.

I did try a Rhodia pad for my mathematics once when my order with the store was delayed and it wasn't as pleasing. It worked fine but the lead does smear a little bit too easily for the reasons you mentioned.

Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by somada141 »

alienreborn wrote: post #14

Used to use Quiver ( http://happenapps.com/ ) but now switched to Bear Notes ( http://www.bear-writer.com/ ). Both support Markdown and Syntax Highlighting. Quiver is lot more full featured programmer's notebook but I like Bear because its light and I prefer tag system.

Really like Quiver (not affiliated at all), more than enough bells-n-whistles for me : - Everything is stored as JSON so I keep sync'ed over Dropbox and version-controller via Git. - Supports both a nesting hierarchy and tagging. - Though I don't use it much I like the JS flowchart and sequence-diagrams - etc etc

Re: Ask HN: How do you document your knowhow, past projects and lessons?

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Post by jryan49 »

swah wrote: post #36
jryan49 wrote: post #13

I'm testing out tiddlywiki ( https://tiddlywiki.com/ ) as of right now. I really like it so far. Used to use org-mode, then plain old google docs. Right now for me it's between onenote and tiddlywiki.

That project must be really old, because I remember being excited about it at the same time I was excited about Emacs.

The main developer has rewritten the whole thing in version 5 in NodeJS and HTML5, it's pretty slick now. I have it running in a docker container on GCE.
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