Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?

I probably have the biggest personal public wiki at this point. Over 720 files and 13,000+ lines across all the files.

All files: https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge/blob/master/SUMM...

The way I did it was by treating the wiki as extension of my brain and having a perfect workflow for editing it at a speed of thought. In my case it's Sublime Text + Alfred + some macros.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/other/wiki-workflow

In fact I recently started to use my wiki to host article drafts I am writing.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/fragments

The best thing about having a wiki is the 'in progress' nature of it. Soon I plan to extend my Alfred workflow to access any link inside any of the files in seconds too.

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind

Wasn't this just asked yesterday?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21310030

Yes and what doesn't stick on a first read may stick when you read about it again in a different book.

I'm using Notion.so It's not a self-hosted platform and not personal in that sense but it has export to markdown capability so I feel safe storing my knowledgebase there knowing that I can download the data, files, images and everything else I have uploaded in a non-propriatry format

I learn by:

Reading books and taking notes.

Watching videos and taking notes.

Attending meetups and taking notes.

Doing. Specifically, by applying what I learned to small projects.

I collect all the notes and projects in GitHub. It's simple (markdown), searchable, versioned and all in one place.

Oh, and free, portable and highly available while hosted by someone else.