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Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

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post #97

You forgot: * Google Basically I give everything over to them and rely on their suite of services. It has worked out really well actually. And in fact isn't it their mission to organize the world's information?

It's not their mission to organize the world's Information for you.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

#102
post #90

Honestly, I just keep everything in a journal. I have a folder called "daypages" in my dropbox. Each day in my life becomes a file in this folder. Today's is "daypages/2016-10-26.org" That's about it. I don't really organize by project much. Each day typically covers the tasks that I intend to get done that day, along with places I've been / friends I've met. The occasional tearful journal entry punctuates the otherw…

Mind sharing how you do this on emacs? (Forwarding to the next day)?

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

#103
My brain.

Supplemented by

  * Dropbox, for text files and code. To be replaced.
  * recently, Google Docs, used as an ad-hoc wiki.
  * Google keep for random 'check this out later' notes
  * Pinboard, for web bookmarks.
I want to develop a better hypertext system for notes, drafts and essays.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

#104
post #62

I'm piggy backing on this. I still have found my holy grail : a kind of knowledge management software where I could just stuff things probably with tags. Not only links (I have pinboard for that) but ideas, snippets of knowledge etc. This would be online (not necessarily self-hosted) and I'm willing to pay for that. Accessible via smartphones and potentially with an email gateway would be great. I don't think mindmap…

My Gmail inbox basically works like that... I send mails to self if I want to store links.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

#105
post #56

I hope to release TableTops next year. It's a non-linear graphical (in two senses of the word) knowledge management software that stores universal links to all of your stuff, local and in the cloud. It also does notes, tags, and script nodes (which can for example be used as alarms / reminders) and represents EVERYTHING as a great big graph. The main UI element is a TableTop, which is also just a node in the graph th…

I'm fascinated by this idea. I hope it comes to fruition.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

#106

Out of curiosity, is anyone interested in some sort of app for this purpose? Like, organizing references to all your other data, thoughts, relationships. I'm not sure how it would work - just thinking about it right now.

There are lots already, I think the problem most people have is that their data is spread out over several. Adding another is just like that XKCD about standards.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

#107

Emacs. - Todo lists and reminders. org-agenda. - Bookmark lists. org-capture and org-protocol. - Kanban boards. I don't use this, but kanban.el. - Wiki. Org-mode files and grep/ag with helm. - Financial tools. ledger. - Calendar/reminders. Org-agenda. - Files on disk. dired, org-mode. - General notes. Org-mode. - Literate programming. org-babel. - Mail. mu4e. - rss. elfeed, gnus, or rss2email. - git. magit. - irc. er…

Org-Mode is the one thing that makes me want to move from vim to emacs.. but I just don't feel like investing the time in getting proficient with emacs at this stage.

You don't have to switch editors. For the past few years I've moved between rubymine, pycharm, and atom for coding while still having emacs open for my org-mode notes.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

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I have been using Turtl (https://turtlapp.com/) for notes, bookmarks, sharing files and journaling. It runs on Windows/Mac/Linux/Android (iOS coming soon) and have both cloud-hosted and self-hosted options. It helped me drop OneNote and Google Keep. It supports tagging the notes, but reminders are still lacking, I use Tasks (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tasks&hl=e...) on my Android phone to keep track of repeating tasks and reminders.

For side-projects kanban boards, I just use Gitlab issues' kanban view.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

#109
At work, I use what work uses -- currently Phabricator. So it goes.

For personal life, I have lots of old things in mails in Gmail (also notes in mails to self), scan paper administration type things and put them in a password protected ZIP in Dropbox, plan books to read on Goodreads, store contact info on my phone, chess games in Scid and other than that I rely on memory.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

#110
post #90

Honestly, I just keep everything in a journal. I have a folder called "daypages" in my dropbox. Each day in my life becomes a file in this folder. Today's is "daypages/2016-10-26.org" That's about it. I don't really organize by project much. Each day typically covers the tasks that I intend to get done that day, along with places I've been / friends I've met. The occasional tearful journal entry punctuates the otherw…

i had no idea that emacs had so many features (from this and other comments).
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