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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...
There is also Sébastien Dubois's Personal Knowledge Management slack [1] and the PKMs reddit [2]. [1] https://dsebastien.net/pkm-community [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/PKMS/
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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Notes is also very difficult to self host, though if you dig deep enough you can actually find the server and some outdated documentation.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.
On the Notesnook front page: > Open source zero knowledge private note taking
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
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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…
> absolutely deceptively terrible of an idea "tags" are 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…
I don't take notes at all, I just use Notepad++ as temporary clipboard for big copy/pastes or edit before paste. I'm really curious to see what the notes looks like for these heavy note taker with hundred of pages/notes. I'm also curios to know if it depends on the career, maybe a ML Engineer need more note taking than an electrician who wire cables all day. I'm a software engineer. My thinking process gets better as…
Here's how I look at it. My programming notes have 2 purposes. #1 to keep me on track. #2 for a concrete log of events. I then rewind, playback and observe what and how I was thinking (almost like debugging by reading logs).
#1 helps with focus. I waste way too much time trying new and shiny libraries, reading articles, etc without making progress on the task at hand. If I simply focus on the task, I don't learn new things. This helps me find interesting tools, libs etc. and come back to them later. Also helps to organize important things first.
#2 Helps me find patterns. In the type of work I do, how I approach them, what I was thinking yesterday, how I debugged something 2 months ago. It has made me an overall better, or at least it gave me a feeling that I was getting better. Both are worth the effort.
So when you start, you will either overdo or underdo note taking. Both ends make the resulting notes less useful (usually called "waste"). Getting it right is a matter of knowing which end you are starting, make changes, see results and repeat till you see no improvement.
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> I'm also curios to know if it depends on the career, maybe a ML Engineer need more note taking than an electrician who wire cables I started keeping a “log” back in 1999 just for work (I too am a software engineer). I note what I worked on and/or what problems I was trying to solve and/or what solutions I found. And some personal stuff too. My inspiration is the idea of the scientist’s lab book where “if you didn’t…
If I understand this correctly you could almost describe your note taking as writing a personal documentation
I prefer pen and paper for most things. For that I'd recommend the supernote [1] with the utmost confidence. It has single-handedly changed my life. My biggest issue was I wanted to go digital (because paper sucks to handle) but my experience with the usual suspects in the tablet market left a lot to be desired. I didn't really need all the bells and whistles. Just a paper replacement. I didn't want to use org mode o…
I considered those for a long time and ended up with the latest iPad Mini. Procreate and Notability are so ridiculously compared to the homebrew solutions eink tablets come with. I cam draw stuff and them colour it and Airdrop it to my laptop. My iPad is still confined to paper replacement duty, and it excels.
eInk leaves a lot to be desired still but the input latency on the supernote seems comparable to the iPad. I think the tactile experience is superior and for me that sacrifice was worth it. I can go a few weeks without charging my supernote and my iPad requires a charge at least once every couple days. The supernote also seems better set up for bullet Journaling and what not. It definitely is exactly as offered - a notebook replacement. Nothing more and nothing less. I find that charming.
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doesn't that (export to html) already exist as part of org-mode?
Yes, I think the parent comment was referring to the need to either check in the HTML or have it generated server side: "define a CI task that uses Emacs to export to HTML".
However, rendering is missing some features. By using a CI task that generates HTML (using Emacs, but on the cloud) it's possible to overcome this (hopefully temporal) limitation.
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> putting your precious brain dumps one drive failure away from disaster. The likelihood of Google locking you out of your account seems higher than your own drive failing.
Really? Why would google lock you out of your account unless you’re not who you claim to be? I mean, maybe temporarily, but that’s just more evidence of them being super secure.
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…
Sounds like you are looking for a Zettelkasten [1], which is a way of organizing notes around a loose linked structure. I use Obsidian[2] for mine! [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten#:~:text=A%20Zet... . [2] https://obsidian.md/