Personally, I'm on a tight Things.app Bear.app loop; professionally, it varies. For keeping professional stuff up to speed I'm on a Things.app ingestion -> Asana loop that throws off artifacts to a google drive and various git repository markdown files, which might be writing new documents or keeping existing documents up to date.
Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
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#222TiddlyWiki: https://tiddlywiki.com/
Can you edit and save the notes in markdown? I’ve got a bunch of notes in this format and ideally would like to keep them that way if I move them to a new platform like Tiddlywiki
Yes. You'll need to install the optional plugin for it. Then you can create and edit tiddlers in markdown syntax.
Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
#223Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
#224For teams I've used Raneto[0] in the past. I use Notable[1] and MkDocs[2] for personal notes and technical documentation respectively. All three are markdown powered of course. Raneto and MkDocs can use a Git repo with your preferred build pipeline and the HTML can be hosted internally or on Netlify, etc. Works well for teams. With Notable I use Syncthing to keep notes synced, but that's a personal use case. For team…
The Notable + Syncthing setup is intriguing – might have to switch off Evernote and give that a shot. How do you view/edit your notes on a mobile device? Thanks for sharing!
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#225Rwtxt.com for personal stuff. Minimalist, simple, supports markdown, exports data and can be self-hosted with no hassle (it's a go binary, and that can run anywhere, and it uses sqlite, so no complicated db setups). It works for small groups too, though it breaks when two people try to edit aat the same time.
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#226My team and I use Taskade at Go X.
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#227At Sourceress we formalized skillsharing with a simple spreadsheet. Now, engineers teach each other the skills that we want to spread throughout the org.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
what makes you think Emacs has a high learning curve?
You can't use Emacs as notepad.exe, and comparing it with vim shows how low you're setting the bar. Out of the box it doesn't even have standard ctl-zxcv shortcuts. The keybindings it does have are terrible and give RSI, and crucially because there's a whole ecosystem of addons that try not to collide, they can never be changed , which is why CUA mode isn't default. Some of us just don't want to 'invest' in tools tha…
> The keybindings it does have are terrible and give RSI, and crucially because there's a whole ecosystem of addons that try not to collide, they can never be changed, which is why CUA mode isn't default.
Everything you are claiming is wrong. I came to Emacs from the Apple HIG shortcut world (which btw, Apple copied from PARC), and I think the keyboard shortcuts Emacs comes with are better thought out and more ergonomic to use. That is why they are the default (Emacs users prefer them), instead of cua-mode, which comes with Emacs and is easily activated.
Emacs key bindings are also far easier to change that in any other application, because Emacs keymaps are first-class objects with inheritance and are separate from commands. That is why Emacs can easily support not just completely different keyboard shortcuts, but completely different input methods such as modal editing.
Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
#229I 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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#230I've tried a lot before. Ended up creating a tiny wrapper around my terminal text editor: https://crates.io/crates/mj
It essentially is markdown files in the fixed directory structure, searchable and simple.