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

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We created a new website with Gatsby exactly for this: https://til.cybertec-postgresql.com/

Each day, a GitHub Actions bot chooses one of the open post PRs and merges it.

The content is open source here: https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/today-i-learned-conte...

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

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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?

Very interested in this as well. How do you do automatic deployments?

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

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I rely heavily on https://workflowy.com/ Here is a quick interactive demo: https://workflowy.com/list-maker/ But I'm not sure how well that works with 50 people. You should probably mention what kind of knowledge you want to share and what features you might need.

Second workflowy. There are other zoomable nested lists (e.g., dynalist), but they're too slow. Workflowy forces minimalism, which ensures your data is portable and that the handling of it is fast. Adding colored tags[2] and the Workflowy Code Formatter extension[1] makes it really great. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/workflowy-code-for... [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/painter-for-work…

I was a heavy Workflowy user for my own personal notes for a few years, and then I switched to Dynalist after a colleague recommended it to me. It can do a lot of things that Workflowy can't (or at least it could when I switched a couple years ago) such as format LaTex code. I rely heavily on this software for organizing my thoughts in both work and my personal life, and I use it daily.

I've tried using these tools in a work environment but my colleagues have never really loved it, so it's more of a personal tool. We just use Google Docs in my current work environment.

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

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I work in a team closely related to another team, and together we're about 30 people in the midst of THOUSANDS of engineers responsible for shipping product. We are dying under the burden of tracking and correlating engineering decisions across product lines and customers through presentations (you can't have a meeting without PowerPoint!) and spreadsheets -- scattered all over internal shared drives -- email, and Sk…

Search a job board for an experienced ”Document Controller” with experience from large engineering projects and hire one or more. You need more than a tool, you need processes and a strong owner of those processes.

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

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My website started out as a personal Wiki, and it still works like that under the covers - https://taoofmac.com/space/dev/Python (as well as hundreds of other similar pages) has a bunch of links and resources I found useful or notable, for instance.

These days most of what I write is online, too, although I have bunches of OneNote shared notebooks and other accoutrements that come with working at a large corporation (Microsoft in this case).

In previous jobs we used Wikis (Trac, PhpWiki, GitLab, etc.), mailing-lists, the works.

I would suggest picking something with proper versioning and access control regardless - OneNote has the additional benefit of having decent (if slowish) mobile clients that let you take some of the info with you offline on trips, but that’s likely not a priority given the scenario you outline.

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

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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…

How do you backup OneNote? The link to where you explain it is broken: http://protips.maxmasnick.com/backing-up-onenote-notebooks You mentioned it as being a critical feature but from what I've been reading, it's pretty complex and tricky due to it's weird syncing rules and relationship with OneDrive. The only decent solution requires a Windows version. See: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/good…

Sorry about the bum link (it's fixed now).

The simple answer is you can download zips of the entire OneNote notebook from the OneDrive web interface.

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

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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…

Good to see a UMB alum here. Who uses Tachyons no less! Thanks for the tips.

Hi, thanks!

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

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Work: Our team has an extensive set of interlinked linked google docs for everything from how to set up your dev env to the plan for the week and logistics for off-sites. As well as a thorough README.md for every project we work on.

What makes the above work is a simple protocol: if someone teaches you how to do something, you're responsible for writing that something down. It's a simple honor system, but people tend to stick to it, and the result is an ever growing, live body of knowledge.

Life: Bullet Journal is pure magic, when I manage to stick to it :/

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

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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?

I haven't tried GitHub Actions yet, but Netlify makes this very easy to do.
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