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Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet

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Re: Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet

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MomsAVoxell wrote: post #8

I worked on an educational title in the 80's which taught people what computers were, and how to use them. It focused on the basics - what is memory, how does a computer use it, what are files and folders. I had a few thousand happy customers and would hear from folks whose computing competence had been lifted by the titles I worked on .. that they finally 'got it' when the difference between memory, storage, files a…

Have you seen Tag Studio? I quickly found it's not practically usable for me, but tags are more powerful than folders: https://github.com/tagstudiodev/tagstudio

Re: Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet

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rrvsh wrote: post #9
MomsAVoxell wrote: post #8

I worked on an educational title in the 80's which taught people what computers were, and how to use them. It focused on the basics - what is memory, how does a computer use it, what are files and folders. I had a few thousand happy customers and would hear from folks whose computing competence had been lifted by the titles I worked on .. that they finally 'got it' when the difference between memory, storage, files a…

I've been bikeshedding for the last year or two looking for a good solution to save interesting pages to a similar knowledge archive... I've settled for bookmarks, but I don't know why I've never considered just stashing them as files in a folder. Thanks for the insight!

You're welcome and yeah .. Print to PDF is really useful. It retains so much information - the URL, the time you visited, the content, tags if the site defines them, and so on.

I don't know why folks haven't caught on to this technique - it's so obvious. Plus, it's like having my own little Internet whenever I'm offline .. digging through random selections from the 80,000+ files I've collected is extremely rewarding.

Re: Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet

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Post by MomsAVoxell »

LoganDark wrote: post #11
MomsAVoxell wrote: post #8

I worked on an educational title in the 80's which taught people what computers were, and how to use them. It focused on the basics - what is memory, how does a computer use it, what are files and folders. I had a few thousand happy customers and would hear from folks whose computing competence had been lifted by the titles I worked on .. that they finally 'got it' when the difference between memory, storage, files a…

Have you seen Tag Studio? I quickly found it's not practically usable for me, but tags are more powerful than folders: https://github.com/tagstudiodev/tagstudio

Haven't seen it, looks interesting and very much like the sort of thing I'd write for myself, thanks for the suggestion, will check it out ..
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