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Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by dchichkov »

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 something relatively easy to hack, actually, on top of Google photos.)

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by Fiveplus »

> all digital trace I'm leaving (tweets, internet comments, annotations)

I would be open to the idea of a tool which combines the entirety of my digital presence at any point in time in a single platform. Kinda like a dynamically updated list which updates itself - every time a linked account makes a comment, 'likes' a post or performs any activity that may link it back to me.

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Post by gricardo99 »

A great time saver for me was simply setting up better bash history and search capabilities[1].

I wrote a wrapper function, sbh (search bash history) that allows me to input date strings like "2 months ago", or "last week", which narrows the search. Linux 'date' function with --date string arg is pretty powerful[2].

1 - https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/05/28/log-bash-history/

2 - https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2013/05/date-command-examples/

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by ssivark »

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 putting together some interesting things under the BASB banner. (Any others? Oh btw, there’s also Perkeep)

It’s amazing for how long Emacs’ Org-mode has been largely unparalleled! Apart from the revered desktop setup, there are now a bunch of mobile offerings including Organice — not quite slick, but definitely useful.

I‘m sincerely rooting for more experiments in this area. I would love to be able to write by hand or speak to my memex (multi-modal interaction). Vannevar Bush’s “As we may think” has languished uncourted for pitifully long. In some ways, this was supposed to be the first “killer app” for personal computing.

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by kirubakaran »

Fiveplus wrote: post #3

> all digital trace I'm leaving (tweets, internet comments, annotations) I would be open to the idea of a tool which combines the entirety of my digital presence at any point in time in a single platform. Kinda like a dynamically updated list which updates itself - every time a linked account makes a comment, 'likes' a post or performs any activity that may link it back to me.

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

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by capableweb »

Everything I write about (journal + other things, task lists and what not) is written in plain markdown files currently (about to move it to TiddlyWiki, one of these days...) and to get search, I just use `the-silver-searcher` which searches the entire directory of my files. Simple and scalable (got around 9k documents by now)

Re: Building personal search infrastructure for your knowledge and code

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Post by jhoechtl »

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 amazing for how long Emacs’ Org-mode has been largely unparalleled!

I use org-mode all the day but frankly OneNote is great too!

If OneNote would save in plain text and have a cross-platform gui I would use it (even if it's resource-sucking electron)

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