I just use my Google Drive. Lots of docs, searchable. Access by my phone when I remember to add something. It's all I need.
Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
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Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#22A year ago, I found a perfect solution for myself. I'm using https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki, writing there everything I find useful. From articles and quotes to lose ideas, notes, project information, or todos. It has support for markdown and export to HTML, which I can style however needed.
Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#23I'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
Here we go again. Hackernews users are not so stupid to fall for this marketing bullshit. Go back to reddit to shill your startup. You have been reposting the same thing in the last week, several times. It's annoying. It should be flagged.
Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#24I made TreeBase. https://jtree.treenotation.org/treeBase/. Plain text files with strong typing and no syntax and uses Git for history. Been using it for years. Great for collaboration thanks to git. Have lots of new features in the pipeline.
Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#25Dokuwiki or MediaWiki self-hosted. Be sure to back it up with something like Tarsnap (remember: replication isn't a backup because errors are replicated too, and only an automatically-tested restore is a valid backup.)
Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#26Toolwise, I use Notion. It's neat, simple and elegant.
www.notion.so
Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#27I'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
Here we go again. Hackernews users are not so stupid to fall for this marketing bullshit. Go back to reddit to shill your startup. You have been reposting the same thing in the last week, several times. It's annoying. It should be flagged.
If they instead said they run a site that does X and it was a pertinent solution to the topic, that would be kosher™, wouldn't it?
Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#28Wasn't this just asked yesterday? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21310030
Timing is everything. I read yesterday's and today's comments and discovered different things.
Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#29Tiddlywiki: https://philosopher.life/ About 3 years, and I use it every day. The experiences with the tool are documented in the tool.
I am also using TiddlyWiki, but I just use it locally with almost all the defaults and no fancy formatting.
It's a little different than a traditional wiki in that each "page" (called a "tiddler") is not really designed as a "page" that you view, but rather a snippet, which can be of any length. You can link between them and whatnot as in any wiki.
The killer features for me are support for
* code syntax highlighting
* LaTeX math with KaTeX
* adding in media (pictures, screenshots, etc. beyond just plain text)
* creating dynamic/aggregate tiddlers based on tags. For example, the code to create a list of links to all my tiddlers tagged with both `blog` and `ideas` is:
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Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#30A year ago, I found a perfect solution for myself. I'm using https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki , writing there everything I find useful. From articles and quotes to lose ideas, notes, project information, or todos. It has support for markdown and export to HTML, which I can style however needed.
Someone I cofounded a startup with has written a vimwiki->website publishing thing. It's quite a fun idea. https://github.com/ajkavanagh/vimwik-publishing-system