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What I want in a personal note taking system is something where I can link anything. Anything is just a generic object that can be linked to and worked with. Like a mix between Logseq and Nextcloud, where I can still use CalDav and CardDav but I can link to tasks and calendar events and contacts from my notes. And i can link to a certain pdf page right from my notes.. or even a certain page of a word document. Anythi…
Emacs :)
What I want in a personal note taking system is something where I can link anything. Anything is just a generic object that can be linked to and worked with. Like a mix between Logseq and Nextcloud, where I can still use CalDav and CardDav but I can link to tasks and calendar events and contacts from my notes. And i can link to a certain pdf page right from my notes.. or even a certain page of a word document. Anythi…
Org (org-mode) supports many link types, and you can easily define more: https://orgmode.org/manual/External-Links.html It's a shame the Ruby renderer used by GitHub and GitLab doesn't understand them. I've been intending to patch it. In the meantime, one can always define a CI task that uses Emacs to export to HTML.
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...
I often wonder who I'm writing them for, as apparently it's not me.
I find all online note taking to be useless because you can’t efficiently and effectively draw on any existing platform with anything like the convenience of p&p. Also, why aren’t you all just using gDocs, like everyone else? Self hosting your personal notes seems like you’re putting your precious brain dumps one drive failure away from disaster.
Using Google for this strikes me as much riskier, as well as just creepier.
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.
This simple idea changed my life: yyyymmdd-topic-title I derived mine directly from a comment [1] on a writer (as in book authors) oriented forum. That one comment is worth a full blown website on its own. I don't need tags. Willing to come across patronizing and say you don't either (not for personal knowledge management). Pretty soon you need to sort tags, find tags, cluster related tags, create tags of tags and ot…
I struggled with them for years because in the back of my head they felt like a necessity.
And when I actively banished them from my note-taking flow, it was like the skies opened up. I realized that what I should be doing is simple "being verbose enough in the note taking such that searching later is robust against me trying to remember what I tagged things."
As in, it's a minimal marginal amount of effort to write for "future you" as if that person were a stranger, not someone who remembered your tags.
(fyi it's http://zim-wiki.org all day every day for what I do. I've tried most all the others and I keep coming back.)
Who is using knowledge graphs to sort notes?
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This simple idea changed my life: yyyymmdd-topic-title I derived mine directly from a comment [1] on a writer (as in book authors) oriented forum. That one comment is worth a full blown website on its own. I don't need tags. Willing to come across patronizing and say you don't either (not for personal knowledge management). Pretty soon you need to sort tags, find tags, cluster related tags, create tags of tags and ot…
I cannot echo enough how absolutely deceptively terrible of an idea "tags" are. They seem right because your brain likes to categorize things, and one word categories, why not? I struggled with them for years because in the back of my head they felt like a necessity. And when I actively banished them from my note-taking flow, it was like the skies opened up. I realized that what I should be doing is simple "being ver…
They are terrible. Not a single useful catalog of information uses the concept of willy-nilly off-the-fly generated tags. Their degree of terrible-ness is exemplified on any wordpress website. Absolute junk.
Folders are awesome, otherwise. Not in this case. Because you need to "open" a folder to look in. Can't eyeball closed folders. Easy to overdo with too many folders within folders. Easy to underdo putting too many unrelated things into one. Easy to fo wrong with naming the folders. Naming folders and find the "right home" for a file becomes a chore. Moving from one folder to another needs both to be well defined not overlapping.
A list of files is much harder to get wrong. In one extreme case, you have 1 big text file. The other, you have a huge list of text files. Both are not a nightmare to fix (sed+awk+grep is all you need). Works well on all OSes including those from the 70s and the ones on all my phones. Copy and paste friendly. Super easy to backup. Also diffs well. Only issue i have is not being able to use images. Thats why I use email now. Just works. Every-fking-where.
Is there a clone of Standard Notes which includes basic plugins for free? I almost think it was a mistake to go with SN for self-hosted notes
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...