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Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?

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Post by missjellyfish »

At work I just made a huge organization overhaul. Previously, the entire state of a project was scattered throughout some markdown files in an absurdly complex git repository, a gitlab wiki and a stash of hand-written notes.

It's now all nice and tidy in a Confluence space. Let's see how it goes and how this holds up when more people start working on this project again. I for myself are diciplined enough to care about good documentation, but my last colleagues left a huge pile of chaos which took a few months to sort out after they left.

Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?

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Post by geocar »

Create a knowledge-team whose sole job is to take information from all the other teams, digest it, and make it available to the rest of the firm. Call it "corporate communications" or "internal marketing" or whatever floats your boat. If you can't get a proper department, at a minimum you can get a on-staff librarian who is a good technical writer who you can pass around the firm (as long as they have the ear of the CEO/COO).

Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?

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Post by sniuff »

missjellyfish wrote: post #31

At work I just made a huge organization overhaul. Previously, the entire state of a project was scattered throughout some markdown files in an absurdly complex git repository, a gitlab wiki and a stash of hand-written notes. It's now all nice and tidy in a Confluence space. Let's see how it goes and how this holds up when more people start working on this project again. I for myself are diciplined enough to care abou…

Have you thought about having markdowns rendered to a Confluence page? And maybe Confluence edits could get rendered back to git.

For the first use case, there are libraries available that sync your .md to Confluence which you could add to your CI system.

Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?

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Post by xyproto »

kingkongjaffa wrote: post #11
bauerd wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there an org-mode editor besides Emacs that has a lower learning curve?

what makes you think Emacs has a high learning curve?

The default configuration of both ViM and Emacs are both pretty unerognomic. And both can be configured to work in pretty much the same way. Both have plugins.

Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?

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Post by tombell93 »

I use Notion (https://notion.so) for pretty much everything (budgeting, tracking my PhD progress, high-level work-related projects, financial planning, etc). It's so flexible and has all the features you might reasonably want for managing information etc. It's essentially Evernote and Trello in one beautiful tool.

At work we use Wikis for most things.

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