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Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by nik_0_0 »

stillwater56 wrote: post #78

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.

Very much so. For me, note-taking also forces basic internal thought (I guess what you called process) as well, which is great. As I'm writing down the note, the next line has a relatively high percentage chance of being "wait, no that can't be right because X".

I am now dabbling with reviewing them, although not sure what that will lead to, as they are so unstructured. There are generally a few gems in there to be remembered, but mostly spur of the moment gibberish!

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by _y5hn »

stillwater56 wrote: post #78

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.

This is well-known. Hand-writing are found in research to work very well, though digital note-taking also works. Those dilligent students were rewarded, though very good to learn this yourself!

I've found Freemind to work well enough for me. Search not needed as I browse the graph easily enough.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by macintux »

rhizome wrote: post #43
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…

> Evernote seems to have a fading presence on the landscape My understanding is that they're throwing their presence away? Maybe they pivoted to enterprise, I don't know, but for at least a couple years all I've heard about them was people talking about what to use instead.

I’ve started retiring my use of Evernote because I simply don’t have any idea whether they’re going to be around for the long run. I’ve been using Emacs for nearly 30 years; it’s about time I learned org-mode.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by macintux »

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’m in the same situation, but I can use personal devices at work, and my personal interests and work interests don’t share much overlap, so in practice it’s not much of a problem.

Every now and then I find an external link I want to share with myself, but I’ll just send myself an email with it.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by marviel »

DavideNL wrote: post #79
marviel wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't disagree -- though they do have a paid version, and a modest team size, which seems promising

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

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…

Totally unrelated but I love these "how I built my version of" threads - I learn about tech and projects I never knew existed

ok carry on please, diversion over :/)

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

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…

Actually, what has been bugging me recently is the inability to "tag" photos on my iphone - all I want is to snap a copy of my bill / invoice whatever, tag it with "gas bill" and let it upload to icloud / dropbox. from there I am sure I can onwards process looking for "gas bill" but actually there seems to be no obvious way to do it, (even looked into EXIf data), and I guess it will age to wait till i learn ios coding

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by pouta »

sqs wrote: post #28

Sourcegraph CEO here. I see the doc mentions Sourcegraph for code search (cool!). Something like ripgrep is indeed better for your case, a single person who just needs to search code in local directories on their own machine. I made a PR for our docs at https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/8075 that should clarify this. Sourcegraph is a web-based code search tool that automatically syncs and indexes many r…

Recently interviewed for a PM role at Sourcegraph, so I read everything Sourcegraph shares online and it was amazing to see your plans and OKR's for the future being laid out in the open. Kudos on running an open, successful organization.

After reading about your masterplan I would love to know your thoughts on the question presented regarding phase 2.

Will coding in the future be more like writing a novel or like knowing how to read+write? I feel the latter will eventually be true as the the human-machine interface becomes more 'native'.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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