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I have a single file called "engineering-notebook" and I store pretty much everything in it:
- bookmarks to resources
- personal notes
- personal tutorials/step-by-steps
- cheatsheets
It works fantastically for me
I'm a huge fan of Org-mode and so far it's been the most persistent way to keep track of my knowledge base. I have a single file called "engineering-notebook" and I store pretty much everything in it: - bookmarks to resources - personal notes - personal tutorials/step-by-steps - cheatsheets It works fantastically for me
What I would love is a full personal CMS type system, where I can have a subject like "cybersecurity" or "cooking" and I can add bookmarks, notes, pdfs, and they're all treated equally and as first class objects in the system. I would love a system that treats all media the same as just a source of knowledge instead of being hung up on the source type i.e. is it a video, or a book mark or a pdf....
It doesn't handle video/bookmark/pdf. If I have to save those, I put them in a separate directory and make a note of it in the text file.
It's pretty well organized, thanks to org mode. It has a section that is by date, like journal entries, and a section that's by topic. Since it's just a single file, it's very easily searchable. It will never "go down". I don't need to run a database (I tried using wiki software for the same purpose). I can even "link" different sections, by having plain text labels. For example, I can refer to "ZFS Setup 2009-01-01" which is another place in the document I can search for.
I can "jump" to sections by using the orgmode annotation. Searching for "* Computers" will go to that top level section.
I liked this system so much that I also use it at work. People are very impressed that I can find things in my "notebook" so quickly. It's just text search.
Websites disappear. Web apps disappear. Apps disappear. My text file, does not.
For managing a personal knowledge base, I highly recommend Tiddly Wiki[1] It's a self-contained Wiki/Notebook/Journal with tags, it works instantly, and all of it is in a single HTML file with magic JS in it. Or you can use it with a server. [1] https://tiddlywiki.com/
I'm a huge fan of Org-mode and so far it's been the most persistent way to keep track of my knowledge base. I have a single file called "engineering-notebook" and I store pretty much everything in it: - bookmarks to resources - personal notes - personal tutorials/step-by-steps - cheatsheets It works fantastically for me
Together with some plugins for managing tasks, git and some script for synchronizing repositories, it has been working great.
There are some limitations on this approach (ie, two persons editing the same page concurrently is a no-no), but for my use-case it works perfectly.
I find it much more intuitive than org-mode, and the fact that it auto-generates a "global" task list based on items spread across the whole notebook makes it much easier to prioritize things.
I'm a huge fan of Org-mode and so far it's been the most persistent way to keep track of my knowledge base. I have a single file called "engineering-notebook" and I store pretty much everything in it: - bookmarks to resources - personal notes - personal tutorials/step-by-steps - cheatsheets It works fantastically for me
For Links/Bookmarks I use Google bookmarks - https://www.google.com/bookmarks/ which surprisingly has not been killed and looks like might be left alone by Google. Other bookmarking services delicious.com & posterous etc all died in due time.
By using browser extensions and a 3rd party Mobile App. I am able sync/store all the links. Though I would love to be able to sync bookmarks to my org-mode notes. Looking at org-capture now to see if that could possibly work (https://github.com/alphapapa/org-protocol-capture-html)
Chrome Extension - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amlegate.g...
Firefox extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/fess-google-book...
Android App for Google Bookmarks (3rd Party) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amlegate.g...