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

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Post by AndrasL »

jesterson wrote: post #61
dewey wrote: post #34

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Putting all your company's data in a random startups hosted service is something not everyone can and should do though. Even if it looks really nice.

As much as I love Notion, things that you've mention really holding from moving sensitive data into Notion. Wish they had more solid approach to security. Not sure if this is still relevant, but at some moment they acknowledged their stuff access to client's data. This is huge no-no for any privacy conscious person. Other that that it's a great tool for organising personal information for me.

Don't most companies that have access to your data have the ability to screen it (at least theoretically, if not practically.) E.g., Google for Gmail, Microsoft for Outlook etc.

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

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Post by teamonkey »

SenHeng wrote: post #281
teamonkey wrote: post #266

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This is a use of AI I've not seen yet, to sift through soups of knowledge, categorise it and make judgements on what else is related and relevant

Isn't this essentially what search engines do? Ie. Google's Page Rank. It doesn't really seem very AI-ish except maybe for some NLP. Otherwise it's very straightforward indexes and catelogues. I used to work at a company that used Elasticsearch to catelog and group articles and small snippets. I'm currently working at a company that's using Algolia to do something similar.

Not really what I had in mind, to be honest. I mean, yes, you can search by keyword, but I was thinking of it being more like a research assistant.

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Post by doomjunky »

synlatexc wrote: post #290
vendiddy wrote: post #81

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I do this too. I use Sublime text in distraction free mode with a git plugin so I can easily commit/push changes. On my Mac, I can do the 4-finger swipe to check my full-screen notes. Usually I have a folder structure like notes/2019-10/2019-10-21.txt. If I want to tag things, I'll just write #idea #work somewhere in the text file. Then easy to search with Sublime or whatever tool you want. I also like this approach…

Same here, though mine is one gigantic text file that dates back ~20 years. Expect to continue updating/referencing it for decades to come, bar some calamity.

How? Chronologically or structured by topics? Appending at the top or buttom? Timestamps? Tags? How do you navigate through the file?

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

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Post by john2smith »

avip wrote: post #32

I put everything in trello. It’s terrible as trello’s search sucks. But I still do it.

I was searching for such tools and founded a useful one Restya. Restya is a productivity and management tool specifically built around a Kanban-style workflow. Great for personal use (FREE) and scales easily to business and team use. We use it daily for managing our project workflow. I work closely with the developers, so feedback is always great. Restya is an excellent free Trello alternative https://restya.com/board/comparison

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

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Post by john2smith »

I was searching for such tools and founded a useful one Restya. Restya is a productivity and management tool specifically built around a Kanban-style workflow. Great for personal use (FREE) and scales easily to business and team use. We use it daily for managing our project workflow. I work closely with the developers, so feedback is always great. Restya is an excellent free Trello alternative https://restya.com/board/comparison.

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

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Post by synlatexc »

doomjunky wrote: post #293
synlatexc wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here, though mine is one gigantic text file that dates back ~20 years. Expect to continue updating/referencing it for decades to come, bar some calamity.

How? Chronologically or structured by topics? Appending at the top or buttom? Timestamps? Tags? How do you navigate through the file?

There are a couple sections, but for the most part it's chronological, with new entries at the bottom. Started adding dates to new notes/quotes/observations about 5 years ago.

It's a sprawling mess, so I rely on search to find what I'm after.

I reference it often -- it's like an extension of my brain.

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

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Post by hieloz »

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?

You can refer to GitHub Actions for Hugo https://github.com/peaceiris/actions-hugo

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

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Post by lokinkl »

I believe it is less about the tools to pick, but more about building the culture. Especially how to build the knowledge sharing culture among a small group of people at the beginning and spread it across the company.

But still, a good enough tool is a must.

We build knowledge base software Kipwise and have been helping various companies build their knowledge sharing flow.

Our focus is to help customers establish a culture. We start with the managers and seniors, and facilitate them to spread the culture among their own teams step by step.

It takes time.

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

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Post by overload119 »

I use the following stack:

1. Caret (https://caret.io/) for taking notes. It's a simple Markdown note taker with some really nice features. It outputs plain .md files and works with folder.

2. All my Markdown file are in a folder synced on Dropbox.

3. I use a custom Alfred workflow which uses riggrep to search very quickly through the notes.

One thing to mention is that I want my stack to be private, so this doesn't publish anything to the web but it does sync.

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