My pain is that I couldn't find a decent md viewer for Windows: free, fast, simple, no distractions. Imagine notepad. I have to open my md files with VSCode or Notepad++ (nasty view).
If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
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Re: If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
#32My pain is that I couldn't find a decent md viewer for Windows: free, fast, simple, no distractions. Imagine notepad. I have to open my md files with VSCode or Notepad++ (nasty view).
I have a small wrapper for pandoc with sane defaults to create PDFs of my notes which I can print out and write on.
Some of my scribblings are useful or important enough to get added to the markdown files and printed the next time.
Re: If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
#33My favorite is WikiCreole, with (subset of) HTML as a close second. MD is alright, but too restrictive as a general purpose format for knowledge bases and such.
Right. Markdown ain’t the only game in town.
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#34When it comes to text (though I do include Word, PDF, text files, markdown, tex)
I like to burn them to dvd.
I have one of those big dvd "catalogs" that takes 4 discs per side of a page.
Keep one at home and one at my parents' place.
I trust them more than usb-sticks. Though that may be irrational.
But the time for burning files to dvd seems almost over. It is hard /impossible to buy a computer with a dvd drive.
That is no problem for me since I have a collection fo externals as well as internals. and life is good now since blank dvd media is cheap .
But again, you need a dvd reader, and in the future, that may become difficult.
Re: If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
#35I'm not surprised this post opens with a link to /r/DataHoarder. Hot take ... I understand the sentiment that you can't trust content on the web to be there forever, but there is also the other side of the argument which is: compulsively saving data is a waste of time and it introduces a cognitive overhead that you'd be better off without.
When I find a blog post/article I'm interested in, I save it to my laptop with the SingleFile extension and I take quick notes as well I write my thoughts about it in org-mode. It has a very low cognitive threshold and I can always read it back in the browser. I'm find if not all the outbound links are still working, I'd just like to read back sometimes.
This is almost exactly what I do too, though I also throw the link in the wayback machine so it's easier to share with others should the source go down (and to be courteous to any like-minded fellows who also wanted to see the content, but unfortunately came too late)
Re: If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
#36The killer app for markdown would be a collaborative editor that displays the raw markdown and formatted markdown side-by-side and makes both sides editable. Tech people can use `#` and `*` on one side for formatting, product people can use normal text-editor buttons like "header1", "italics", etc.
Re: If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
#37My pain is that I couldn't find a decent md viewer for Windows: free, fast, simple, no distractions. Imagine notepad. I have to open my md files with VSCode or Notepad++ (nasty view).
Easy fix, just write your md files in HTML, that way they are easy to read, and when you need to look at the markdown you can just use a converter.
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#38I'm not surprised this post opens with a link to /r/DataHoarder. Hot take ... I understand the sentiment that you can't trust content on the web to be there forever, but there is also the other side of the argument which is: compulsively saving data is a waste of time and it introduces a cognitive overhead that you'd be better off without.
> If it's worth saving Idk, I think if it's worth saving it's worth saving and the only person who can determine if it's "worth it" is me. I agree that some people have an obsession where they save data that isn't worth it, but r/DataHoarder is a great place with a lot of information on building and maintaining large data systems for hobbyists, regardless of what you actually store.
Actually, “future you” will know even better in many cases.
Also, some people other than yourself might turn out to be a better predictor of “future you” than “current you”.
So many people are hyper individualistic and forget just how predictable individuals can be to others!
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#39Just a note that the most common Markdown flavor (Commonmark) doesn't actually support frontmatter. The author is using presumably Obisidian-flavored Markdown (which is a mixture of Commonmark, GH-flavored Markdown, and Latex). For file-tagging, I would consider TMSU [0] instead of writing bespoke tools. (ideally we would just use xattrs, but the world isn't ready for that) [0]: https://tmsu.org/
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Re: If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
#40AsciiDoc is basically DocBook-Markdown, which makes it a medium-independent format.