Lots of little text files, with markdown-like formatting. pyblosxom [http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/ http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/] gives me a web interfa

Lots of little text files, with markdown-like formatting. pyblosxom [http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/ http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/] gives me a web interface when I need one - generally when I want to lazily read through my notes on a certain topic. The files are all in an svn repo, with a copy checked out on every machine I use regularly. I've been doing something like this for perhaps 5 years, accumulated something like 400,000 words of notes across hundreds of files, and the system's holding up well. It's not pretty - but my data is safe, I'm not relying on a website staying alive, and if I ever move to something more sophisticated it'll just take a few scripts to convert everything. And, since I always have vim open, editing one of my text files is quicker than almost any other interface. At one point I had the whole lot publicly-available online - I may again in the future, once I've done a sweep for other people's secrets in there. I was incredibly pleased to find that Cosma Shalizi (who I admire immensely) has a similar system: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notabene/ http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notabene/