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Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
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Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
#122It's been mentioned a few times in these comments, but I want to add a +1 for Roam[1]. Note-taking/personal knowledge tool that's very, very different from anything I've seen before -- closest thing I can compare it to is Wikipedia. It's still in beta with some rough edges, but VERY worth checking out. [1] roamresearch.com
Worth mentioning the pricing [0]:
$30 / month
$10,000 / lifetime
Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
#123Sourcegraph CEO here. I see the doc mentions Sourcegraph for code search (cool!). Something like ripgrep is indeed better for your case, a single person who just needs to search code in local directories on their own machine. I made a PR for our docs at https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/8075 that should clarify this. Sourcegraph is a web-based code search tool that automatically syncs and indexes many r…
Wow, the prices seem extremely high to me for a search engine across code repos. $30/person is almost double what Stack Overflow charges, and that product can act as a frontend to search not just code but any type of documents, with voting, tagging, analytics on what confuses people the most and more. It would be hard for me to justify even $10/person for something like Sourcegraph in my company (a Fortune 500 ecomme…
> in my company (a Fortune 500 ecommerce brand)
My strategic advice is to get whatever's best in class, and not worry about $X0/month. Compared to what you should be spending on devs that rounds to free.
Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, what has been bugging me recently is the inability to "tag" photos on my iphone - all I want is to snap a copy of my bill / invoice whatever, tag it with "gas bill" and let it upload to icloud / dropbox. from there I am sure I can onwards process looking for "gas bill" but actually there seems to be no obvious way to do it, (even looked into EXIf data), and I guess it will age to wait till i learn ios codin…
Touch and hold , then tap an option. Custom: Tap , tap Enter New Tag, type a customtag, and tap Done. Create additional custom tags: Tap , tap Enter New Tag, type a custom tag, and tap Done. Add more than one custom tag to a photo: Tap , and tap each tag you want to add (so a checkmark appears next to it).
Is this a real UX, or something you'd like? (This isn't how either Apple or Google Photos works)
Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
#125Is there anything for people who don't use Vim?
Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
#126Meta-observation. This topic seems to be getting a lot of attention on HN over the last few months, indicating massive interest. Further, looking at the landscape of developments in this space (past all the me-too Markdown note taking apps): Evernote seems to have a fading presence on the landscape, Notion seems to be a (too?) well-funded behemoth startup, Roam is trying some exciting things, and Tiago Forte is putti…
> It’s amazing for how long Emacs’ Org-mode has been largely unparalleled! I use org-mode all the day but frankly OneNote is great too! If OneNote would save in plain text and have a cross-platform gui I would use it (even if it's resource-sucking electron)
The OneNote format is documented. If I knew Haskell I might have a go at adding support to OneNote, but if anyone wants to have a crack at it I'd support you.
Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
#127Meta-observation. This topic seems to be getting a lot of attention on HN over the last few months, indicating massive interest. Further, looking at the landscape of developments in this space (past all the me-too Markdown note taking apps): Evernote seems to have a fading presence on the landscape, Notion seems to be a (too?) well-funded behemoth startup, Roam is trying some exciting things, and Tiago Forte is putti…
It's a ripe space. I'm using notion mostly right now, but I've also used: -Coda.io (big, more scriptable player) -Hypernote (super new player, but with a cool new take on inter-note relationships) -Tiddlywiki (super customizable, really fast -- but also has a fair amount of footguns) -Airtable (only played with it a few times but it's usually mentioned in the same breath as notion, I notice) Hopefully someday we'll a…
I've only started using Tiddlywiki, so I didn't get the chance to dive deep. Can you mention some of the footguns?
Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
#128Does anyone else find that the simple act of writing notes helps them remember and process better? I spent forever trying to find an ideal note-taking solution, but now I just write things in a single notebook. I rarely review my notes, but I find that simply writing thoughts down consistently has improved my memory and understanding of new concepts.
This certainly applies for me personally. My theory is that it ties in with the sort of 'geographic' memory where when you think of something, you might not be able to remember exactly what it is, but you can remember pretty precisely that it's in the middle of a certain notebook, on a heavily marked-up page, in the bottom left corner. By tying things to a location which you can remember, placing it in a bit of a con…
Well, you also used that 7 digit code a lot more often than you ever had to recall your start or end dates.
Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
#129This topics comes up again and again. I collected some notes about this here: https://github.com/albertz/wiki/blob/master/personal-knowled... E.g. one software I started to use is nvALT, via: https://www.macstories.net/links/organizing-everything-with-... But I'm nowhere near a perfect and complete solution yet...
The successor to nvALT, nvUltra, is currently in private beta. I'm looking forward to its release! https://nvultra.com/
And still Mac only :(
Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code
#130> Ideally I want to be able to do fulltext realtime search over anything that I ever had in my visual field. Not even necessarily text, but audio and video as well.
Where I find all these systems break down is recall. They're designed for someone who can recall a word or phrase that was in the content. I can usually recall "It was about X" or "The document/web page/image looked like Y". But an actual word? The author's name? Not a chance.
While a more difficult problem, if the tool is to live up to the "Future" section of this page, it's got to go a long way beyond what's in the source data, to what's thought of by the user.