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Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Oooh. I've been wrestling with this problem for a while now. Basically I'm working on a tiered system. Files/dirs are categorized by size ( 25GB) , and by sensitivity (public, confidential, secure. And importance is usually proportional to security). I have fortunately found that security is usually inverse to size. Github/lab anything which makes sense. Confidential small stuff (sans keys) is just stored in gmail/dr…

Do you feel comfortable using cloud storage for so much of your content? My ideal is to be entirely self-backed-up. I want a personal git server, photo archive, etc. With bandwidth, service costs, vendor issues (dealing with google seems like a nightmare from reading online). How did you construct your NAS? Is it a single system, or multiple hard drives/storage solutions connected to your network?

It depends. Github is not going down. Gmail is not going down. If they do, it's Bug-out-bag time, and I am working on curating what information subset I need for that.

Ideally though yes I would have my own entire backup system but I frankly don't trust myself enough to do it right, so hence some redundancy in the cloud.

The NAS I am still designing actually :p

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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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…

Have you looked at Wiki.js? I played around with it a little bit and it seemed nice
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