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check out MindForger - it is open source and quite simple to review as it's mainly one maintainer.
I just started using MindForger which is very similar. I will definitely give Obsidian a look because I love these ideas - thibkjng notebooks. check out MindForger - it is open source and quite simple to review as it's mainly one maintainer.
One question for all users of knowledge-bases like this: How often do you write something down and look it the next day and realize it's not relevant anymore because of reasons like: • you memorized it • it's not as important as it seemed yesterday • it's a todo and having it there actually nags you and prevents you from completing it • it creates some other kind of mental load: while skipping over it, it grabs your…
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Org-mode is fantastic. Org files on Dropbox has been my standard note keeping and task management tool for close to a decade. But... it definitely has a learning curve as you simultaneously adapt your workflow to org and customize org to match your own desired workflow. For me, it is undoubtedly the best task and knowledge management tool I’ve ever used. But, I accepted a long time ago that the Emacs requirement is g…
The learning curve and attitude of the old guard are what pushed me away from org mode. I loved the structure and the promise of being able to code/adapt workflows.. and being able to merge config and comments (literate programming, is it?) to document the few changes I managed to make. But learning Emacs around it, especially on a Windows system just isn't worth it :/
I was initially skeptical of Obsidian, but... (1) It’s not proprietary - it’s a browser +/- IDE for markdown files. I point it at the folder in my Dropbox directory where I already keep all my md files. It’s a new front-end, but doesn’t lock me into anything. (2) As an extension of 1, I can continue using NotePlan as my calendar/todo on my phone (which builds everything into md files), and Kiwi to access all of the a…
The lack of linking between notes is definitely the missing feature of Simplenote.
I like the approach here of trying to sync markdown files with iCloud
One question for all users of knowledge-bases like this: How often do you write something down and look it the next day and realize it's not relevant anymore because of reasons like: • you memorized it • it's not as important as it seemed yesterday • it's a todo and having it there actually nags you and prevents you from completing it • it creates some other kind of mental load: while skipping over it, it grabs your…
> • you memorized it
This means I've got about a day or two at most while I still have it memorized - but my plans usually span longer than that.
> • it's not as important as it seemed yesterday
That would account for most of the irrelevant 5% of my notes, I suppose; but most of the time, it will still provide important context when I come back to it weeks later.
>• it's a todo and having it there actually nags you and prevents you from completing it
Never really understood these sorts of todo issues. If a task is sitting somewhere for longer than necessary, it's likely unimportant. If it is important, I'm more than glad to be "nagged".
>• it creates some other kind of mental load: while skipping over it, it grabs your attention, which then prevents you from attending to other tasks on the list.
Move it to the bottom, or to another list outright ("To do later").
>I have a theory that GTD helps only few, for most people it just makes them feel better because they are now spending time creating lists instead of doing what's on them.
I have a theory that people like to riff on organizational tools when they do not know how to utilize them properly - which is why most are drawn to utilize them in ineffective and inefficient ways, generalizing this as a property of the tool.
Besides, GTD/task management is a miniscule portion of why it makes sense to construct knowledge bases.
No task management, planning, etc. Just plain reading, thinking and writing.
The quest continues...
it supports all the same features and built on top of vscode. use it to manage my personal knowledge base of 20k md files