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Re: Managing my personal knowledge base

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Post by AlanYx »

mkl wrote: post #134
Xunxi wrote: post #30

I use Microsoft's Onenote. You can literally do everything in the blog as well as audiovisual captures. All text is searchable. This video covers some of the things you can do with it in an academic setting but relatable. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JQD5c8A_D2g 0:33 - Math equations 1:45 - Replay text 2:45 - Ink to text 3:20 - Research tools 4:39 - Immersive reader 6:01 - Web clipper browser extension 7:12 - Save e…

I disagree completely. I wouldn't trust anything important to OneNote, and it's hard to get things out of it again, too. Your notes are basically locked in. You can sort of print to PDF, but it uses different pagination to the original PDFs you annotate! PDFs are inserted as bitmap images instead of vector format, and text is only sometimes searchable. OneNote has a really scary number of obvious bugs, with pen input…

...it's hard to get things out of it again, too.

Export is really the weakest area of OneNote. As far as I can tell, there is no way of batch exporting that also exports embedded attachments (for example, if you embed a PDF or Word document into a page rather than "printing" to the page).

Re: Managing my personal knowledge base

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Post by analog31 »

theonething wrote: post #35
analog31 wrote: post #33

I've mentioned this before, but I'd love to have a note taking app as convenient as EverNote, but that lets me insert code cells a la Jupyter notebook. I can barely think without Jupyter any more. Maybe that's not a good thing, but it's sure handy.

What do you use Jupyter for? Feel like I'm missing out. :)

I'm a physicist by day, and work for a company that makes measurement equipment. A lot of my work is quantitative, so I'm frequently "thinking" with numbers, equations, graphs, etc. While I'm not employed as a programmer per se, I use scientific programming quite heavily.

Jupyter has helped me take notes when I need to "think" quantitatively, and be able to look at answers quickly, plus maintain a record that I can read later on.

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Post by arminiusreturns »

antjanus wrote: post #11

I'm a huge fan of Org-mode and so far it's been the most persistent way to keep track of my knowledge base. I have a single file called "engineering-notebook" and I store pretty much everything in it: - bookmarks to resources - personal notes - personal tutorials/step-by-steps - cheatsheets It works fantastically for me

I also love org-mode, but I have to admit that asciidoc and asciidoctor has been growing on me, especially for anything I want others to contribute to.

TODO alone is a game changer imho.

Re: Managing my personal knowledge base

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Post by Kihashi »

dross wrote: post #74

A little surprised that after 64 comments I've only seen 2 instances of Evernote mentioned. I recently went back to using it and have been making use of the clipper fairly often. https://twitter.com/dalevross/status/1214257684863692806 https://www.evernote.com/l/AVVHBrGz_9BPMbh_Oxgp8qpibzVtX0tRn... I also found https://dabble.me/ the other day which seemed like a nice slot in for quick thoughts with the ability to em…

I was a paying EverNote user for years, but they stopped evolving while other NoteTaking apps didn't. I forget which feature they removed that was the last straw, but the recipe front-end was hugely important to me.

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Post by nsomaru »

yen223 wrote: post #41
bnj wrote: post #29

I’d like to look into the features of notion more, but I can’t help but wonder why it isn’t more common to see people using a local SQLite database, or any other self hosted database, to serve as a personal knowledge base management system. A lot of the paid solutions I’ve seen seem to bend over backwards to offer a limited subset of the features that are trivially available in an actual database. Has anyone tried ou…

I have a postgres instance running somewhere that has a history of stuff that I've recorded. The reason why one might choose not to do this is that a) it takes a bit of work to get syncing across devices, and b) it takes a bit of work to get markdown, images, search, videos etc working.

Any chance you could share your process?

Re: Managing my personal knowledge base

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Post by rusticpenn »

harha wrote: post #117
rusticpenn wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At that point Emacs- org mode must be optimal for the use case

I'm not sure if learning a new system is worth it, given the simplicity of markdown files - do you have any good resources? My goal for now is to have a simple way to record (the files) and manage (the folders) notes, collaborate (I currently use gitlab repositories) and potentially use them later, e.g. by copying relevant parts to make posts, documentation etc, or by writing a script that finds relationships based o…

Org mode is not very different from Markdown ( Most of the rules are extremely similar) and it can do much more than what you expect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgizHHd7nOo

Re: Managing my personal knowledge base

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Post by yardshop »

bnj wrote: post #29

I’d like to look into the features of notion more, but I can’t help but wonder why it isn’t more common to see people using a local SQLite database, or any other self hosted database, to serve as a personal knowledge base management system. A lot of the paid solutions I’ve seen seem to bend over backwards to offer a limited subset of the features that are trivially available in an actual database. Has anyone tried ou…

This reminds me of SQLite's own Fossil-SCM product [0]. It's a source control manager with wiki and built-in web interface all stored within one SQLite file. They use it to manage the source of SQLite itself.

I played with it briefly a few years ago, and just tried it again now. It's definitely not geared towards note taking the way other apps in this thread are, but it could have value as a self-contained and portable wiki/kb. I'd be interested to hear of people's experience with this, either for its main purpose or even just as a note taking system.

0: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

Re: Managing my personal knowledge base

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Post by larntz »

mkl wrote: post #134
Xunxi wrote: post #30

I use Microsoft's Onenote. You can literally do everything in the blog as well as audiovisual captures. All text is searchable. This video covers some of the things you can do with it in an academic setting but relatable. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JQD5c8A_D2g 0:33 - Math equations 1:45 - Replay text 2:45 - Ink to text 3:20 - Research tools 4:39 - Immersive reader 6:01 - Web clipper browser extension 7:12 - Save e…

I disagree completely. I wouldn't trust anything important to OneNote, and it's hard to get things out of it again, too. Your notes are basically locked in. You can sort of print to PDF, but it uses different pagination to the original PDFs you annotate! PDFs are inserted as bitmap images instead of vector format, and text is only sometimes searchable. OneNote has a really scary number of obvious bugs, with pen input…

My biggest issue with onenote is that you can no longer use local notebooks with the new versions. I'm stuck on onenote 2016 or all my local notebooks become read only.

One drive is blocked at work so onenote is effectively useless to me now.

For now, I've started moving my notes to a static site using hugo. It's a bit less convenient, but until I settle on a better permanent solution at least I have text files I can move around and manipulated in bulk if needed.

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