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Managing my personal knowledge base

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Re: Managing my personal knowledge base

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post #10

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 use a tool called zim wiki. Its less of a wiki and more of a notes app with a tree sidebar for navigation and linking between pages. Everything is stored as txt files which works awesome.

Re: Managing my personal knowledge base

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post #10

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/

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.

You just download the HTML file and open it to 'run' it. Then, once you've made changes, use your browsers "save as" feature to save a copy. Everything is in browser.

Other options do things like public hosting.

Personally, I just use the HTML file with the Timimi Firefox plugin installed for autosaving the current file.

Re: Managing my personal knowledge base

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I've mentioned this before, but I'd love to have a note taking app as convenient as EverNote, but that lets me insert code cells a la Jupyter notebook. I can barely think without Jupyter any more. Maybe that's not a good thing, but it's sure handy.

Re: Managing my personal knowledge base

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I've mentioned this before, but I'd love to have a note taking app as convenient as EverNote, but that lets me insert code cells a la Jupyter notebook. I can barely think without Jupyter any more. Maybe that's not a good thing, but it's sure handy.

What do you use Jupyter for? Feel like I'm missing out. :)

Re: Managing my personal knowledge base

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The bookmark workflow is an impressive demonstration that browsers have a lot of room for improvement in their bookmarking tools. I'm hoping (and optimistic) that the distributed web brings with it some epiphanies about how to do better local knowledge management!

Firefox sync with tags and knowing how to use the FF search bar to filter tags comes close for me

Re: Managing my personal knowledge base

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post #10

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/

This, together with github plugin. You edit/create a post, press save, the whole website is committed back to github. In a single html file. Painless

Re: Managing my personal knowledge base

#39
post #30

I 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 e…

I’ve tried tons over the years and just keep coming back to OneNote. It’s great, very underrated.
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