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Just curious - why do we need to sync to Dropbox if they are already hosted in a Git repo?
I want to access them on my iPhone 6. iA Writer is my favorite app and it supports Dropbox in addition to iCloud.
I use Emacs Org mode in a git repository hosted on my Raspberry Pi. On my phone, I use Orgzly to edit the files, along with Termux to manage the git repo. I also use Termux to launch Emacs from time to time when I need an advanced operation not yet supported by Orgzly. I keep sensitive files encrypted using GnuPG and my private key lives on a Nitrokey Pro (a GnuPG token). I usually export to various formats with Org…
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We're the same. Confluence's inline and bottom-of-the-page comments are excellent. You can have proper chained discussions. Blog posts have been amazing for us to share small "experiences" like how somebody setup their environment (as opposed to more standard env setup documentation). These tend to be more informal. Markdown files in repositories have been alright, definitely good for readmes. However, they suffer be…
I use Confluence at work, and it's quite good - biggest issue for me is the lack of markdown support. I'd really like to be able to author Confluence pages using markdown.
My coach Malcolm Ocean has been speaking highly of https://roamresearch.com, which looks like a promising way to keep track of research-style notes.
Beyond that we have MediaWiki which is a tar pit of ancient and current information that has horrendous search/filtering.
No one is maintaining it from an archival standpoint and there is a mixture of old commentary on obsolete alpha/beta engineering releases from decades ago, along with all sorts of old material that may or may not be relevant.
It is excruciating. I've created new content, that I can't find through the search box, so thankfully I bookmark it in the browser or look to see what items I've edited.
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 am impressed. Whenever I try to build a tree of thoughts, I run into the problem that I want things to fall under multiple categories. I might start by classifying them according to subject area (as you have done), but then I might want a collection of those notes to also fall under "could help with project X" or "would be of interest to person Y" or "can be learned from reference Z" or any number of things.
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No mention of KeePass under password managers?!
I'm only interested in password managers with good desktop, web, and mobile support.
It uses a KeePass database and is a self-hosted app in the browser that works perfectly fine on mobile. I have the page up at all times in Chrome on my Android for quick and easy access. The desktop app I have on my home PC. Everything is synced through Dropbox which is the actual storage location for the encrypted database. I have the desktop app set to make backups just in case on my local PC as well. But Dropbox is what they all connect to. I personally love this web app implementation of KeePass much more than anything else like lastpass or other paid services. Been using it for several years now and I've never had an issue. You'll need to grant the web app special access in Dropbox to get it working properly, but it's easy to set up.
EDIT - by "self-hosted" I really mean cached in the browser so nothing is going through the site, it's all local to you after you load the app. Also, this means you can still use it offline if you need to because the Dropbox database is also cached until it can update accordingly when connection is resumed.
https://www.notion.so
I keep hearing how much people love Notion, but I really didn't enjoy it. I found the desktop app (Electron, no doubt) rather slow/unresponsive. And I hated the login system where they just email you a new temporary password each time you want access. I use a password manager, so this is absolutely awful for me. And I don't know how many times I wanted to reference a note on mobile without signal and was asked to log…
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This is what links were originally invented for.
Links are fragile and one-sided. You might move the destination. You might edit the title of the destination and want that to show up in the link text. You might want the content, not just the title, to be visible (preferably foldable) from where the link is. You might want to be able to see from the destination what links to it.
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?