I personally have a set of documents in Google docs that contain snippits and short command line fragments.
Because most of what I like to retain are bookmarks I build my own bookmark application. I have something like 3000 to 4000 bookmarks in there. The application is open source and located on github.
I imported all my Firefox and Chrome bookmarks into it and all github stars, I am planning to add more import abilities at some point... when I have more time...
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?
#52I 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/…
For those of us without macs or ios - what would you recommend (if anything) for replacement of Alfred for Windows or Linux? Or is there another kind of application you'd like to be able to use (that may or may not exist yet) in place of Alfred? Would any search system work for that matter? Could a command line system be used (ie - some form of grep perhaps)? What about something like a "google appliance" style searc…
I use BookStack that I self host. I use Linuxserver.io's docker image.
Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#53I made a dropmark.com account and use it like a private pinterest board. Applies more to my non-web interests though.
Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#54Keep it stupid, keep it simple.
I use Markdown + KaTeX to render math and code. I keep everything in files.
Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#55org-mode. Sync with git over SSH. Been using it for over a decade.
Not exclusive to personal knowledge base, but I keep a lot of notes in there because it's my default catch-all, including on the phone since I have Termux installed. It's easily greppable.
Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#56I've jumped around all over the place, I can never settle on a tool and it's really frustrating
I've been through
* evernote - slow and buggy UX, properietary format
* emacs org mode - good but you need buy in to org format, user experience across devices e.g. mobile not so good)
* quiver - pretty good, markdown format, but lacking android support
* git + markdown files - ok, but a bit finicky, again annoying across devices
* joplin - pretty good, has mobile support, has markdown etc
* nVault - lightning fast, no mobile support
I saw a thread on HN recently talking about a similar topic and someone mentioned TiddlyWiki which seems promising, I'll investigate it soon, although I suspect I'll probably jump when the next thing comes along.
Luckily most of my 'wiki' is in markdown format so it's fairly portable, I just want something that
* is easily accessible across devices
* supports markdown (+ rendering)
* supports inline LaTeX (e.g. $$x = 5 + y$$)
* renderer should support inline images
* good search capability
Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#57I used Google Docs and Anki for a while but found it hard to keep individual notes organized.
I moved to Bookmark OS which has been great https://bookmarkos.com
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Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#59I'm developing this app, which I'm currently using for a personal knowledge base, but whose ambitions are quite a bit larger:
https://digraph.app/wiki/topics/39b38b69-1c22-4e98-bb79-661b...
https://blog.digraph.app/2019-07-06-ten-thousands-links.html
This is a new app, although it's an iteration on one that I made more than ten years ago.
Re: Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?
#60I've used Anki for a while, but never very consistently or effectively until recently. Over the past year, I've started doing the following: 1. Stopped trying to categorize cards and just create them all in a single deck (with tags in lieu of separate decks). 2. Whenever I find myself googling something or looking it up on StackOverflow (that's not wildly specific or related to domains I don't really care about), I a…
I'm enthusiastic about Anki, and use it for an hour per day for the material I'm learning.
I shared the Java portion of my deck at https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/647806244