Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base

Post by huac » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 3:54 AM UTC

rndn wrote: post #39

Gmo wrote: post #17

Sounds interesting ! And quite funny since I was looking for something similar last week (and didn't find anything really fitting what I want). A couple of questions : - do you have any kind of versioning/revision history ? Especially on the individuals "facts" - do you have a search function ? How does it work ? - Any kind of tagging system apart from the color code ? - any way to export the raw data ? - any plan of…

> Anyone else @HN that knows of something similar ? (apart from evernote) I'm currently experimenting with Emacs org-mode, Microsoft OneNote and a personal MediaWiki install on localhost. My observations so far: - Emacs org-mode : (+) integrated power of my Emacs setup, (+) great key bindings, (+) based on text files, (-) difficult to learn, (-) no fancy UI, drag-n-drop - Microsoft OneNote : (+) nice UI, (+) good mou…

Post by mirimir » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 4:07 AM UTC

adambatkin wrote: post #69

15155 wrote: post #41

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Believe it or not, the online world doesn't revolve around California or the European Union. One of the best "features" of the internet is that it is jurisdictionally grey. Otherwise, why not just subject the entire world to the stringent requirements of China?

While it's true that it may not be a legal requirement (in some jurisdictions) to post a privacy policy, it's probably not a good idea to trust a service without one, particularly if said service is designed for posting potentially private personal information. In other words: They should post a privacy policy - not because it's a legal requirement (though it may be) - but because it's good business. And no one will…

Post by radlad » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 4:15 AM UTC

Post by weaksauce » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 5:49 AM UTC

weaksauce wrote: post #79

for those interested in an even more lightweight version of this and have zsh open all the time, I wrote a small zsh function that has proven to be invaluable. basically all you do is type mm and then it lists all your files inside the personal "man" folder inside your home directory. basically ~/man/manpages/filename and you can create files easily that was too. by just typing `mm newfilename` and it will open up vi…

Post by hobofan » Mon, Jul 20, 2015, 6:31 AM UTC

captn3m0 wrote: post #56

siavosh wrote: post #51

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This is helpful, thanks for sharing. We've struggled with where to integrate with first as most integrations I've seen have been gratuitous, but #slack is a solid possibility. Curious about the API support, how would you use it?

While I do have a _drafts directory for my blog under version control, editing it locally is a pain. What I'd like to do: - write the blog post drafts under a `Drafts` category at faqt - Run a script that fetches all drafts and commits them in my drafts repo when I run it That way, my repo stays updated, and I don't have to worry about copying-pasting updates there. I could even write a "publish-from-faqt-to-blog" sc…