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Managing my personal knowledge base
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Re: Managing my personal knowledge base
#22For 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 strongly support this recommendation. Tiddly Wiki has enough features and extensibility that I wasn’t tempted to write my own bibliography management system after discovering it. Yes, I know there is dedicated software for that but they didn’t fit how I want to structure my notes.
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#23For 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/
How do you recommend running it? The install guide lists a half-dozen different possibilities including PHP, Node, Ruby which all look to be vastly different solutions.
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#24The problem with bookmarks is you're never going to have time to reread the whole thing. I make a summary and put the source as a hyperlink so that if I summarized wrong I can go read it again. Summaries are better because you can organize summaries and have everything you know about enums together in a few pages, rather than 20 bookmarks.
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#25I'm surprised no one has mentioned SuperMemo and incremental reading as a means of managing a knowledge base.
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#26I've been using Zim [1] as a knowledge database for around 2 years. I don't like depending on online solutions which may suddenly disappear. 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 fi…
I like Zim. For my Batcave I switched from Tiddlywiki to Tomboy to Zim to Notecase Pro and finally switched from that over to files and folders using the Geany editor and a sync service. So far this is the combination that seems to survive software, OS, and environment changes best. Even on Android it's not perfect, but it makes me happier than e.g. trying to use Zim on Android :-)
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#27I'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
Why do you use one file? The ability to insert hyperlinks is one of the nice features of org-mode.
a single file is fairly manageable even when it gets huge. I feel like that's a big advantage of org-mode.
I use a separate file for non-technical stuff.
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#28I'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
It’s all I need, I have tens of thousands of lines of notes at this point, can search them (text, regexes, tags, whatever) essentially instantly, can export to html or slides or pdf or $format, will never go down or close down or disappear behind a paywall, it’s perfect
I also love that since it's plain text, I can still access it anywhere I want to without having to use Emacs (despite the limited functionality without it).
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#29I’d like to look into the features of notion more, but I can’t help but wonder why it isn’t more common to see people using a local SQLite database, or any other self hosted database, to serve as a personal knowledge base management system. A lot of the paid solutions I’ve seen seem to bend over backwards to offer a limited subset of the features that are trivially available in an actual database.
Has anyone tried out using a personal database like this?
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#30I use Microsoft's Onenote. You can literally do everything in the blog as well as audiovisual captures. All text is searchable.
This video covers some of the things you can do with it in an academic setting but relatable. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JQD5c8A_D2g
0:33 - Math equations
1:45 - Replay text
2:45 - Ink to text
3:20 - Research tools
4:39 - Immersive reader
6:01 - Web clipper browser extension
7:12 - Save emails to OneNote
NB: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2015/11/1...