Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

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Post by en3r0 » Thu, May 28, 2020, 10:41 AM UTC

Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base
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Post by en3r0 » Thu, May 28, 2020, 10:41 AM UTC

I have been using Trilium lately and I love it. What sold me completely is the sidebar sections "What Links Here" - my purposeful linking and "Similar Notes" - reminding me of what I may have forgotten.

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Post by en3r0 » Thu, May 28, 2020, 10:57 AM UTC

en3r0 wrote: post #2

I have been using Trilium lately and I love it. What sold me completely is the sidebar sections "What Links Here" - my purposeful linking and "Similar Notes" - reminding me of what I may have forgotten.

Also the fact that I can completely self host it on a server while running a local client on any machine that syncs effortlessly.

Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

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Post by kurzawa7 » Thu, May 28, 2020, 11:34 AM UTC

Will give this a shot. Looks like a modern alternative to CherryTree. I find these hierarchical note taking apps useful for organising complex projects which usually require several levels deep of note organisation. I also use Joplin for general note taking and Google Keep for website resources. I'm set.

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Post by formalsystem » Thu, May 28, 2020, 3:44 PM UTC

I've tried more than a couple of times to use a personal knowledge base and haven't been succesful in making it stick.

My process so far has been I keep a daily journal where I write down the most interesting things I learnt or did everyday. If my daily notes are getting unwieldy then I use a Markdown file which I sync on Github. And when I really want to make sure that I've understood something I'll either write a blogpost or stream myself going through a library.

I would definitely appreciate the ability to search my old notes better since they got too long to efficiently parse a long time ago but this process lets me structure the really important concepts I learn without adding too much overhead when I'm just learning random stuff. I also expect my notes to outlast many knowledge base projects and part of the appeal of markdown to me is that it's probably gonna be around for a while.

I'm curious if any writers here have found personal knowledge bases to be worth the initial overhead.

Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

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Post by maxwellwhite » Thu, May 28, 2020, 4:02 PM UTC

kurzawa7 wrote: post #4

Will give this a shot. Looks like a modern alternative to CherryTree. I find these hierarchical note taking apps useful for organising complex projects which usually require several levels deep of note organisation. I also use Joplin for general note taking and Google Keep for website resources. I'm set.

Website resources?

Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

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Post by bwat49 » Thu, May 28, 2020, 5:02 PM UTC

formalsystem wrote: post #5

I've tried more than a couple of times to use a personal knowledge base and haven't been succesful in making it stick. My process so far has been I keep a daily journal where I write down the most interesting things I learnt or did everyday. If my daily notes are getting unwieldy then I use a Markdown file which I sync on Github. And when I really want to make sure that I've understood something I'll either write a b…

> My process so far has been I keep a daily journal where I write down the most interesting things I learnt or did everyday

Trilium should work great for this, you can press ctrl + alt + p to automatically create a new day note under a calendar tree.

In my case, I also added a custom shortcut/button that brings me to the current day in the calendar tree

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Post by mkl » Thu, May 28, 2020, 10:56 PM UTC

Previous discussion (but worth discussing again): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18840990

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Post by souterrain » Thu, May 28, 2020, 10:57 PM UTC

I find that an ability to search the knowledgebase exceeds the value of organizing according to a hierarchy. I can see some value in linking/backlinking à la an encyclopedic "See also" reference for discovering similar information that doesn't share keywords.

Are there other disadvantages to an "all search" solution I'm overlooking?

Re: Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base

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Post by _jal » Thu, May 28, 2020, 11:12 PM UTC

souterrain wrote: post #9

I find that an ability to search the knowledgebase exceeds the value of organizing according to a hierarchy. I can see some value in linking/backlinking à la an encyclopedic "See also" reference for discovering similar information that doesn't share keywords. Are there other disadvantages to an "all search" solution I'm overlooking?

Think it tends to be mostly a personal preference thing.

I use both, but do rather like hierarchies - they just seem like a natural way of grokking things. I also tend to just naturally outline a lot, whether writing, taking notes or coding.

Another reason I find them useful is that the act of organizing them is also a form of learning for me - not just the information, but the context and relations.

A third reason I like hierarchies is probably a result of a mental flaw. I've always had an issue with "missing words" - where a particular noun just doesn't come to me when I need it. Definitely worse with proper names for some reason. When I'm missing a word, context works much better for finding something.