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I’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 ou…
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/
See also Roam ( https://roamresearch.com )
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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 have every interesting article or web reference I've ever read since 1997, sitting in a PDF file alongside tens of thousands of others.
It is so convenient to be able to "ls -l | grep subject" and find all the pages related to that subject, and then to mine the data out of the PDF's for further reference.
Or, I just open the PDF and gain the knowledge again.
This works very well and doesn't require an active Internet connection. Every year I spend a few weeks up in a mountain retreat, going through the collection and getting an idea for the variety of topics I've read about for the year.
Its pretty neat to see, also, the changes in my interests over the years - and as well, its pretty wild to go back to the sites after time and realise I've got the only copy of the site - because its gone now.
I'd prefer to see more tools for manipulating PDF's become mainstream in the future. I can't recommend highly enough the productivity I've gained by being able to organise things this way. Its like having my own private Internet of 80,000+ pages, tailored to all the things I'm interested in ..
Don't bookmark. Instead: Print to PDF. I have every interesting article or web reference I've ever read since 1997, sitting in a PDF file alongside tens of thousands of others. It is so convenient to be able to "ls -l | grep subject" and find all the pages related to that subject, and then to mine the data out of the PDF's for further reference. Or, I just open the PDF and gain the knowledge again. This works very we…
Any macOS users should check out DevonThink.
Don't bookmark. Instead: Print to PDF. I have every interesting article or web reference I've ever read since 1997, sitting in a PDF file alongside tens of thousands of others. It is so convenient to be able to "ls -l | grep subject" and find all the pages related to that subject, and then to mine the data out of the PDF's for further reference. Or, I just open the PDF and gain the knowledge again. This works very we…
It kind of amazes me that you've been doing this for two decades already.
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.
Don't bookmark. Instead: Print to PDF. I have every interesting article or web reference I've ever read since 1997, sitting in a PDF file alongside tens of thousands of others. It is so convenient to be able to "ls -l | grep subject" and find all the pages related to that subject, and then to mine the data out of the PDF's for further reference. Or, I just open the PDF and gain the knowledge again. This works very we…
I "print" to markdown instead, even though pdfgrep sort of works I much prefer text files.