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Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by mlthoughts2018 »

seagreen wrote: post #123
mlthoughts2018 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I’ve never heard of any company that does that. In all 6 of the large tech companies I’ve worked for, all of which were very profitable, this type of per-head cost would be a HUGE blocker to being allowed to requisition the tool.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by tomerbd »

I have less notes after being fed up with nites. It's really time consing to manage notes so - I manage logs. I just log everything I do each task in it's new page. It's append only.

For notes which I mutate I just keep a personal web site and I tried to keep this as cheatsheet and as compact as possible so I don't need to manage it.

So append only log in quip new folder for each task.

Mutative cheatsheet super compact pages in personal website.

Oh and for quick sniper's alfred.

That's it.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by glinkot »

seized wrote: post #134
glinkot wrote: post #120

I use a few things for this (on windows): - For notes, OneNote, though I'm always on the lookout for an alternative with decent UI and syncing, but using open file formats. Full text search simple enough with this. Code formatting isn't good but there's an addin where the free version formats it as it was copied. - To search local files, Voidtools Everything is great. Searching instantly by filename is a real time sa…

Take a look at Standard Notes. It is privacy focussed with encryption but has markdown and code editors and can be self hosted

Thanks, looks interesting. I find Markdown a great idea in theory, but have found very few examples of wysiwyg markdown editors that work 'as you'd expect'. For me that means:

- Bullets with multiple indents going from 1 to 1) a. etc - Table handling - Usual formatting like heading levels etc

And there seem to be lots of flavours of markdown too, just to add another layer to things.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by tomatocracy »

klft wrote: post #68

(1) For note taking I stumbled across anno[1] via[2] two weeks ago. It's a python flask application which you run on your localhost. You write markdown which gets stored locally as file and is rendered as html using pandoc[3]. It's really basic but I love it. (2) For physical documents I use a Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500[4] for scanning. A runtime-licencse of ABBYY FineReader for OCR is included. The resulting PDF has emb…

I have a ScanSnap scanner too (mine's an S1500 - I have had it for c10 years or so and it still works perfectly) and it's great to be able to search what used to be paper documents quickly and easily. It saves a lot of physical space as well, most documents I scan then shred immediately once I've verified the scan is good and backed up.

There are some reasonably good OCR tools on Linux now as well - I've been pretty happy with Tesseract[0]. It was an absolute pain to script everything to "just work" when I press the button on my scanner though.

Recoll[1] works very well for indexing documents for me including my OCRd scans. When that's not enough, I revert to pdfgrep.

0. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract 1. https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by wowtip »

marviel wrote: post #69
ssivark wrote: post #6

Meta-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…

Airtable is fantastic for so many things, I only wish there was a cheaper "personal" plan with more records, for a couple of bucks / month.

I can't really justify $10 / month for "just for fun" personal projects, and the 1200 records / base is too limited for many ideas (and also 5000 records for $10/month is on the low side as well, even if putting it as a company expense)

Yes, I know, they got to eat and everything, and maybe cost vs income is not feasible for personal accounts.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by elbear »

theshrike79 wrote: post #135
elbear wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've only started using Tiddlywiki, so I didn't get the chance to dive deep. Can you mention some of the footguns?

Just trying to make it save its state is difficult enough, there's a bunch of hoops to jump through and at least I have never actually managed to do it. It's one of those things I try every few years, fail and quit.

Ok, I know what you mean. That kept me away as well for a while. What made it work for me was to use the desktop app first. Then, I made a setup with nodejs and that's what I'm currently using.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by NetOpWibby »

seized wrote: post #134
glinkot wrote: post #120

I use a few things for this (on windows): - For notes, OneNote, though I'm always on the lookout for an alternative with decent UI and syncing, but using open file formats. Full text search simple enough with this. Code formatting isn't good but there's an addin where the free version formats it as it was copied. - To search local files, Voidtools Everything is great. Searching instantly by filename is a real time sa…

Take a look at Standard Notes. It is privacy focussed with encryption but has markdown and code editors and can be self hosted

I love SN and have been using it for a few months. No complaints thus far. I will add that for me, the Simple Markdown Editor module is better the other one (forget the name).
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