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

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

Riverheart wrote: post #168
TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How could that incorporate the endless PowerPoint files that, unfortunately, contain critical details about design specs? Cut that content out, and put it in MD, after the meetings? An import process that does this for us? I'm not saying it's a good system, but this is the corporate culture. The vast majority of our design history is only codified in PowerPoint. We have a PTC Integrity system, but it's so slow and so…

Well Wiki's support file uploading and you can always source control the ppt files and use MD files where appropriate.

What I'm shooting for is to index the content of Office files. I've now looked, and, apparently, Confluence doesn't do this. Given this requirement, I seem to be looking down the barrel of Elasticsearch with FSCrawler.

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

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Post by spencerwf »

BrissyCoder wrote: post #117
spencerwf wrote: post #10

I would suggest a single source of truth. In my marriage, it’s my wife’s google calendar. My personal projects are in a single google doc with tags I search for. I document my personal projects because sometimes I do stupid stuff and wipe out my work on accident. For work, We use confluence as the source. We have daily stand ups that go on there. For any screenshare 1v1s I create a quick doc to cover what we discusse…

> We use confluence as the source. We have daily stand ups that go on there. You record your stand-ups on Confluence? I think retrospectives should probably be recorded (on something - Confluence I guess if you're using it) but stand-ups? Genuinely curious if you think you get any value from this? How often are they referred back to?

I’m not sure if our stand ups are similar to other companies but each person tracks what they are working on in sales force cases or in JIRA.

Our stand ups are for trending issues, global/timezone concerns, and really important things. They last around 15 mins. The notes we put in confluence are @mentions and the next steps.

Anything else is tracked in jira/salesforce.

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

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Post by deca6cda37d0 »

masnick wrote: post #127

I have a personal "knowledge base" that is publicly available at https://maxmasnick.com/kb/ . This is partially inspired by Chris Albon's excellent data science technical notes: http://chrisalbon.com . I find it very helpful to have this kind of information on a public website. It's easy to search myself, quick to edit[^1], and helpful for sharing with others when someone asks me a question. For notes I don't want to…

“ I use the GitHub Actions beta to automatically update the public site every time I commit to master.”

How do you set that up?

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

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Post by msaharia »

Howsaboutthat wrote: post #163
fredguth wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used it for a while and really enjoyed. But I wanted to make it work with github pages and it did not seem easy. Has anyone here managed to do that?

https://tiddlywiki.com/#Saving%20to%20a%20Git%20service Does this help?

Does tiddlywiki work with Markdown?

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

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Post by roland35 »

Work: OneNote, now that Office 365 it is basically "built in" to everyone's computer and it does not require any training for non-developers (as much as I'd prefer markdown or org mode!)

Personal: My family uses Google's drive, so we have a large document which has our current schedule, projects on the to do list, shopping lists, etc etc. We spin off separate docs for big projects such as our home renovation or list of contractors we've worked with. Combined with scanned invoices, this makes everything searchable from one place which is nice.

I initially wanted to try something like Trello but the google doc has worked best for us!

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

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Post by colecut »

QOwnNotes, cross platform open source app for creating/editing/tagging/searching markdown files, synced with NextCloud. I've finally found the system that doesn't hold me back, and I've stopped looking for anything better.

This is for my own personal use, maybe/probably not as suitable for a team.

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

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Post by benhurmarcel »

jbms wrote: post #120
glaberficken wrote: post #93

I only run documentation for a small team (4 people), so can´t comment on scaling. But after a lot of failed attempts (word document, text files, wiki) for now we settled on MS OneNote... yeah I know... as team leader I was resistant to it. But after noticing my team members had each started their individual notebooks, I thought - what's the point on trying to force them to use something I think is better but that is…

My team's got OneNote notebooks stored on shared network drives, which works very well with same the benefits you list. To open the notebook and be able to start typing (or pasting in from email etc) is a very low barrier of entry, compared to say using a Confluence wiki page and having to login then click edit.

That's what we have in a lot of teams here, and we have to look for an alternative now that Microsoft is dropping support for local storage in Onenote.

The last version to work with local storage (not cloud) is Onenote 2016, which is supported until 2025.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

masnick wrote: post #127

I have a personal "knowledge base" that is publicly available at https://maxmasnick.com/kb/ . This is partially inspired by Chris Albon's excellent data science technical notes: http://chrisalbon.com . I find it very helpful to have this kind of information on a public website. It's easy to search myself, quick to edit[^1], and helpful for sharing with others when someone asks me a question. For notes I don't want to…

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

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Post by stoolpigeon »

deca6cda37d0 wrote: post #183
masnick wrote: post #127

I have a personal "knowledge base" that is publicly available at https://maxmasnick.com/kb/ . This is partially inspired by Chris Albon's excellent data science technical notes: http://chrisalbon.com . I find it very helpful to have this kind of information on a public website. It's easy to search myself, quick to edit[^1], and helpful for sharing with others when someone asks me a question. For notes I don't want to…

“ I use the GitHub Actions beta to automatically update the public site every time I commit to master.” How do you set that up?

If it's not too much to ask, I would add on here that I'd like to see your Hugo setup. I've been learning it recently but the examples I find are all rather simple. Just seeing what you've done gives me some ideas of how you did it, and I'll work on figuring it out - but information on how you organize things before hugo generates the site would be greatly appreciated.
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