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Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by tibu »

dchichkov wrote: post #2

Reminds me somewhat similar - CEO of Wolfram developed a nice way of record keeping: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod... By the way, is there, by chance, a "note taking/indexing tool from photo"? I'd like to be able to take a photo of an title/abstract of computer science paper with my phone. And then be able to find it, by approximate date and keywords. (I use Android. Seems like somethin…

Evernote does character recognition quite well. I don't know if there are any others but would be good to have something else too so I can leave Evernote for Notion.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by PenguinCoder »

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've been looking for a good multi-document feed scanner. Do you have experience using the iX500 with Linux, or gscan2pdf?

My usecase would be scanning multi page documents with minimal effort, and saving to PDF somewhere.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by kirubakaran »

swozey wrote: post #24
kirubakaran wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm building this https://histre.com/ It has Hacker News, Telegram, and web browsing (notes, bookmarks, history) integrations already. Up next: Emacs org-mode exports, integrations with Pocket and Pinboard. Here is a bit longer comment on that which I made earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22160026

This is cool, I'd dig a $2-5/mo unlimited account for 1 person/team with the same unlimited settings.

Thanks swozey. Can you please send me an email? k@histre.com

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by computronus »

albertzeyer wrote: post #55

This topics comes up again and again. I collected some notes about this here: https://github.com/albertz/wiki/blob/master/personal-knowled... E.g. one software I started to use is nvALT, via: https://www.macstories.net/links/organizing-everything-with-... But I'm nowhere near a perfect and complete solution yet...

The successor to nvALT, nvUltra, is currently in private beta. I'm looking forward to its release!

https://nvultra.com/

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by PenguinCoder »

insomniacity wrote: post #63
fctorial wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't you host it on an ec2 instance? They won't be blocking amazon ip. Where do you work?

There's definitely no external access without going through the web proxy. And a new uncategorized site would be blocked by the web proxy - and it wouldn't pass review. I work in a highly regulated industry... Any workaround would be grounds for termination. So there's no point to my comment really - just curious if anyone else is in the same boat.

I won't tell you how to circumvent security, but a simple solution seems to be getting your domain 'categorized'. Keep it clean (no malware, not wordpress), strong transport security, and maybe behind basic auth. This should allow you access to the site as needed, from your work environment.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by gwgundersen »

djhworld wrote: post #44

I've given up with trying to find The One True Note Taking Tool, so have ended up writing my own thing that I tinker with now and again to tune it to exactly what I need. It's essentially a simple web server that sits on top of a bunch of markdown files. The frontend renders the markdown using markdown-it and supports KaTeX for simple inline mathy things, along with the extended markdown stuff like tables etc. I've e…

This sounds a lot like a tool I built for myself [1], sans the database. I agree that Markdown + Katex with a local server seems like the right move for most technical people. Lots of things like encryption, backups, and basic text search can be done via other Unix tools. I also agree that the big win is owning your data long-term, even if you get tired of maintaining the software.

[1] https://github.com/gwgundersen/anno

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by K0SM0S »

karlicoss wrote: post #57
spdustin wrote: post #53

I'd really like a personal "correlate all the things!" setup that has a plugin architecture for any source and creates a time series and document-based store of whatever I want. Tweets, e-mails, text messages, time tracking, etc. There are lots of tools that do the individual moving parts, but a personal aggregator of everything would be interesting. Basically, a tool that lets you become your own personal data broke…

I'm kind of working on that too :) https://github.com/karlicoss/my I wrote a post on some data that I collect and have/will integrate: https://beepb00p.xyz/my-data.html#consumers

I only skimmed through and the combined breadth + intent of your projects seems very, very interesting — I mean it speaks to me. So, way to go! Mad props, please keep it up!

If you ask me, this is the shape of things to come.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by stillwater56 »

Does anyone else find that the simple act of writing notes helps them remember and process better? I spent forever trying to find an ideal note-taking solution, but now I just write things in a single notebook. I rarely review my notes, but I find that simply writing thoughts down consistently has improved my memory and understanding of new concepts.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by DavideNL »

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…

If only Notion was private (like for example Omnifocus.) I can't imagine uploading all my private data to the cloud of a "free" app.

OmniFocus is more expensive but i gladly pay to prevent my data from being analyzed & sold.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by dr_baba »

insomniacity wrote: post #63
fctorial wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't you host it on an ec2 instance? They won't be blocking amazon ip. Where do you work?

There's definitely no external access without going through the web proxy. And a new uncategorized site would be blocked by the web proxy - and it wouldn't pass review. I work in a highly regulated industry... Any workaround would be grounds for termination. So there's no point to my comment really - just curious if anyone else is in the same boat.

Can't you use a personal mobile device with a 4G connection to access a knowledge database outside the firewall, without moving any data across your employers network? As long as the data you wish to read/write is not sensitive in itself, and it's mostly just plaintext notes that you can read/write from any device, I don't see the issue with that.
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