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

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Post by 15155 »

zyxley wrote: post #4
tjosten wrote: post #2

How can a website / service be operated in 2015 without any contact or legal information? How am I supposed to use this for my personal information without being able to read the privacy statements or knowing who's operating the service to what purpose? Edit: To make the reason for my comment clear, there was no link in the footer like there is now at the time I wrote it.

Not to mention some jurisdictions requiring a privacy policy, like California.

Believe it or not, the online world doesn't revolve around California or the European Union.

One of the best "features" of the internet is that it is jurisdictionally grey.

Otherwise, why not just subject the entire world to the stringent requirements of China?

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

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Post by OldSchoolPro »

zyxley wrote: post #4
tjosten wrote: post #2

How can a website / service be operated in 2015 without any contact or legal information? How am I supposed to use this for my personal information without being able to read the privacy statements or knowing who's operating the service to what purpose? Edit: To make the reason for my comment clear, there was no link in the footer like there is now at the time I wrote it.

Not to mention some jurisdictions requiring a privacy policy, like California.

I'm sure there a lot of strange requirements in random states of India, China, Russia, Egypt, etc as well.

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

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Post by infinite8s »

bobcostas55 wrote: post #38
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|Aut…

What additional things have you wanted to xo?

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

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Post by tomhenderson »

Really cool. A couple of things I'd like to see would be:

- Change the window title to something other than 'Dashboard', and add a favicon.

- Give me a way to get my data out. Dropbox syncing would be great - a folder for each category, and sync .md files into the folders. (Two way syncing would be even better)

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

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Post by bobcostas55 »

infinite8s wrote: post #43
bobcostas55 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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|Aut…

What additional things have you wanted to xo?

One of the major omissions is that there is no "GROUP BY" equivalent. For example I wanted to generate a table with average book rating grouped by author, but it wasn't possible.

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

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Post by Pamar »

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…

Personally I'd suggest a self-hosted instance of Moin Moin Wiki (https://moinmo.in/)

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

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Post by vmarsy »

rndn wrote: post #39
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 mou…

A feature from OneNote I love and nobody knows about because of poor marketing is the "me@onenote.com" [1]. You send an email to it, it creates a note where Email subject = Note title, and email content = the note text

I linked my gmail account to it (it doesn't require to sync email between the gmail and the outlook account) and I email "me@onenote.com" all the time.

If you just put a URL in the subject of your email, OneNote will create a note with the HTML page extracted (so it's fully searchable) as well as a screenshot of the page!

[1] https://blogs.office.com/2014/03/17/email-your-notes-into-on...

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

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Post by shkkmo »

captn3m0 wrote: post #34

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…

Yeah, I can't put the time in to enter stuff into a proprietary codebase until there is the ability to export or a api to allow me to write my own export.
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