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Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Post by irln »

Gmo wrote: post #17

Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts" - do you have a search function ? How does it work ? - Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ? - any way to export the raw data ? - any plan of…

I'll definitely check this out.

I currently use Google docs...usually the title of the doc in the form of a question where the doc is the answer.

The search varies in terms of accuracy from revision to revision.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Post by captn3m0 »

For those who are wondering how the styling looks, I signed up and copy-pasted a markdown sample here: https://app.faqt.co/share/k6hs7l

This looks pretty cool. I think I'l be using this from now on. Features I'd like to see in the future:

- custom domain (esp for teams, which I see is in the works)

- Revision History

- Exports/Backups

- Searching

- Raw markdown support. I often like to copy markdown from places, and this would come handy. Just a .md at the end of the route would do.

- API support is always nice

Also, while you are working at a team solution, you might want to take a look at this blog post [0] from xoxco, where they describe their knowledge base that integrates very well with slack.

[0]: https://medium.com/why-not/our-slack-wiki-e4f6d23a3495

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Post by Axsuul »

Congrats on the launch! Your main competitor here is Evernote so I would highly recommend you implement a "Import from Evernote" feature, or at least tout it.

I'm happy with Evernote but the main disgruntle I have is the lack of Markdown capability, which you're making very clear, and any other developer-friendly features. There could be a big opportunity here if you can segregate yourself from Evernote by niche-ing yourself towards developers and technical folk. There's definitely a void here.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Post by jszymborski »

siavosh wrote: post #23
Gmo wrote: post #17

Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts" - do you have a search function ? How does it work ? - Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ? - any way to export the raw data ? - any plan of…

Thanks, and good questions. Here's a first pass: - Not yet: But I'm a big fan of Rich Hickey's thoughts on data and time if that gives any clues on where I'd like to take it ( http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values ) - Search function is very light just a client side search of the titles, but if people want it we'll probably build a server side full text search - We've been debating different tagging schemes…

Can't use this without full-text search... it's a shame. I was looking for something more pretty than Tomboy Notes, but so far nothing is beating it.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Post by trilinear »

Great idea, and I would like to use such a service. One thing - you may want to address the issue of asking for a password on the home page registration form over a non-secure connection.

It wasn't until I hunted for a secure form via the 'Login' link that I knew I could sign up without risk of my credentials being sniffed.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Post by bobcostas55 »

malexw wrote: post #7

This is great! A boss at an old job used to track little nuggets of information in a Word Doc he called his "Master" file. It had everything from bugs he had discovered with rare microcontrollers, to short reviews of meals he ordered at restaurants. (The idea behind the meals reviews is that the next time he went to the restaurant, he could look up what he had last time and decide if he wanted to have it again, or tr…

The best tool I have found is ConnectedText. It's not perfect, but it does the job. It's basically a full-featured wiki in a desktop application, with alright query capabilities baked into the markup language. Also a really good category system. I use it pretty much exactly like your boss used his "master file".

For example I have a page called "Reading Log" whose content is:

  [[$SUMMARY:[$PR Read  ""]|-Read|Rating|Author|Type]]
This is a query that finds any pages with the "Read" property and then produces a table with all the stuff I have read, in descending order of reading date, along with the rest of the properties listed. Unfortunately the query language is not particularly powerful, some things I've wanted to do have not been possible.

Re: Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

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Post by rndn »

Gmo wrote: post #17

Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts" - do you have a search function ? How does it work ? - Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ? - any way to export the raw data ? - any plan of…

> Anyone else @HN that knows of something similar ? (apart from evernote)

I'm currently experimenting with Emacs org-mode, Microsoft OneNote and a personal MediaWiki install on localhost. My observations so far:

- Emacs org-mode: (+) integrated power of my Emacs setup, (+) great key bindings, (+) based on text files, (-) difficult to learn, (-) no fancy UI, drag-n-drop

- Microsoft OneNote: (+) nice UI, (+) good mouse support, (+) drag-n-drop, (-) proprietary format, (-) no LaTeX

- MediaWiki: (+) rich wiki capabilities, (+) great revision management, (+) available in local network on any device, (+) everything in the browser, (-) painful updating, migrating, installing, (-) slow, no good keybindings

My conclusion so far: I'm torn between MediaWiki and org-mode. OneNote is a bit too proprietary for my taste. Next I’m going to move everything to org-mode and work on ways to publish my notes with LaTeX markup on the intranet and to include pictures more easily.

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