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Evolving my note-taking processes

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Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by samsquire »

apetresc wrote: post #20
samsquire wrote: post #2

I journal computer and software ideas as markdown files out in the open on GitHub. When I get to 100-300 entries I move onto a new repository. https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas2 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas3 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas4 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/startups I create a new markdown heading for each entry and write. It's searchable and the data is easy t…

What is the benefit of moving on to a new repository? It's not like Git would have a performance problem with thousands of small text files, and it's just as easy to organize (actually much easier) within a single root than within multiple roots.

I am adding to my journal every day.

If someone checks my journal on Monday, unless they scroll to the bottom to check for new journal entries on Tuesday, they shall miss the journal entries I added Tuesday. (Unless they come back but I feel I have one chance to gain a regular reader)

I submit to HN when I reach a new batch of 100-300 entries.

I don't want people to not see the new entries.

I only tweak or add to older journal repositories, I don't add new entries to the bottom of those repositories.

Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by alexalx666 »

gigel82 wrote: post #19
gnuj3 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

notesnook.com

Notesnook is not open source (you cannot self-host it, you must pay them). FWIW, Standard Notes is also very difficult to self host, though if you dig deep enough you can actually find the server and some outdated documentation. FWIW, I settled on https://github.com/zadam/trilium which is very bare-bones but fully open source and self-hostable.

yes SN was the hardest installation for me :D, Trilium looks good, will deff try it out, thanks!

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Post by bachmeier »

reactspa wrote: post #10

Markdown question: I want to take create a chronological journal where I track tutorials I've done (and how well, etc), but I want to add some sort of a tag wherever I feel like so that with a click I can find all my entries related to (say) React, or R (statistics), and so on. If you're reading this, and have had luck with such a tagging mechanism, please share your solution. FOSS only, of course.

Here's a session with someone that not only uses Logseq for notes, but even to run R code for statistical analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN6tjeQfxRc

Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by [deleted] »

bachmeier wrote: post #18
samsquire wrote: post #2

I journal computer and software ideas as markdown files out in the open on GitHub. When I get to 100-300 entries I move onto a new repository. https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas2 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas3 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas4 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/startups I create a new markdown heading for each entry and write. It's searchable and the data is easy t…

I started by putting stuff on my professional website. Too much overhead and styling kept me from writing: https://lancebachmeier.com/other.html Then I moved to GH pages and a simple theme, so that I could type directly in the browser on any device: https://bachmeil.github.io/online-writing/ There was still too much styling on that page for my taste. The full CSS for my new site is body { max-width: 950px; margin: au…

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Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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bachmeier wrote: post #18
samsquire wrote: post #2

I journal computer and software ideas as markdown files out in the open on GitHub. When I get to 100-300 entries I move onto a new repository. https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas2 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas3 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas4 https://GitHub.com/samsquire/startups I create a new markdown heading for each entry and write. It's searchable and the data is easy t…

I started by putting stuff on my professional website. Too much overhead and styling kept me from writing: https://lancebachmeier.com/other.html Then I moved to GH pages and a simple theme, so that I could type directly in the browser on any device: https://bachmeil.github.io/online-writing/ There was still too much styling on that page for my taste. The full CSS for my new site is body { max-width: 950px; margin: au…

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Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by galoisscobi »

reactspa wrote: post #10

Markdown question: I want to take create a chronological journal where I track tutorials I've done (and how well, etc), but I want to add some sort of a tag wherever I feel like so that with a click I can find all my entries related to (say) React, or R (statistics), and so on. If you're reading this, and have had luck with such a tagging mechanism, please share your solution. FOSS only, of course.

I have a vi oriented solution.

I use neovim+vimwiki(in markdown mode)+telescope[0] and that setup has been working well for me. I don’t do tags per se but telescope should be able to search those.

[0] https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim

Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by leetrout »

If you enjoy sharing info around knowledge management I made a discord community "Awesome Knowledge Management"[1] and there is also Brett's awesome list for knowledge management[2] for more resources!

[1] https://discord.gg/VsqazDhsES

[2] https://github.com/brettkromkamp/awesome-knowledge-managemen...

Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by abrax3141 »

samsquire wrote: post #21
apetresc wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the benefit of moving on to a new repository? It's not like Git would have a performance problem with thousands of small text files, and it's just as easy to organize (actually much easier) within a single root than within multiple roots.

I am adding to my journal every day. If someone checks my journal on Monday, unless they scroll to the bottom to check for new journal entries on Tuesday, they shall miss the journal entries I added Tuesday. (Unless they come back but I feel I have one chance to gain a regular reader) I submit to HN when I reach a new batch of 100-300 entries. I don't want people to not see the new entries. I only tweak or add to old…

Hunh??? (Also, why would anyone want to read anyone else’s personal journal, I mean, I guess if you were Donald Trump it might be “interesting”. But if there were more than, like, three of these that I followed, I’d be reading personal journals more than doing anything else. I barely have time to follow podcasts that drop once a month, much less the random musings of random hackers.)

Re: Evolving my note-taking processes

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Post by pen2l »

I came to appreciate and realize the importance of note-taking, finally this year, with org-mode. Folding and easy-labeling features jive well with me (and for when sharing my notes and thoughts with others), babel and linking is pretty cool too.

I use orgmode for to-do lists too, but it's a little weak there. I think an effective to-do list management implementation is tightly coupled with calendars...

It was such a welcome surprise to me that when I got the M2 Macbook air, Apple calendar synced to my google calendar so easily... now my to-do list/calendar schedule is never too far away from me. The apple watch makes a vibration ding for events in my calendar... as does the iphone, and I can CRUD calendar entries on any of these interfaces. I would have _loved_ to be able to have org-mode as one other place where my calendar/todo list is staring at me in the face, as I now use emacs for everything, but sadly that's iffy. Yes, solutions purportedly exist (e.g. https://github.com/kidd/org-gcal.el9 ) but none work reliably and require too much finagling. Linked solution doesn't work as Google deprecated the ability to retrieve OAuth 2.0 tokens.

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