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What I would love is a full personal CMS type system, where I can have a subject like "cybersecurity" or "cooking" and I can add bookmarks, notes, pdfs, and the

What I would love is a full personal CMS type system, where I can have a subject like "cybersecurity" or "cooking" and I can add bookmarks, notes, pdfs, and they're all treated equally and as first class objects in the system. I would love a system that treats all media the same as just a source of knowledge instead of being hung up on the source type i.e. is it a video, or a book mark or a pdf....

tkainrad 7y ago
If you didn't try Notion before, you should probably not judge it solely by my post. It is very versatile and you could probably use it in a way that comes close to what you describe. There is not much support for PDFs or videos though.
karlicoss 7y ago
Not exactly CMS, but I'm working on a browser extension along a similar line of thought. It unifies all bookmarks/notes/chat messages etc you have for a certail URL treating them as first-class: https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#demo https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#demo P.S. It's also relevant to bookmark management as well: you get to see not only notes on the bookmark, but also on the 'child' URLs, e.g. if you open someone's twitter profile you'd be able to see their tweets you've favorited. Or if you open some blog, you'd see posts from that blog you saved on Reddit.
1kGarand 7y ago
I have been using a text file (actually an org mode file) since 2009. Before that I used a plain text file. It doesn't handle video/bookmark/pdf. If I have to save those, I put them in a separate directory and make a note of it in the text file. It's pretty well organized, thanks to org mode. It has a section that is by date, like journal entries, and a section that's by topic. Since it's just a single file, it's very easily searchable. It will never "go down". I don't need to run a database (I tried using wiki software for the same purpose). I can even "link" different sections, by having plain text labels. For example, I can refer to "ZFS Setup 2009-01-01" which is another place in the document I can search for. I can "jump" to sections by using the orgmode annotation. Searching for "* Computers" will go to that top level section. I liked this system so much that I also use it at work. People are very impressed that I can find things in my "notebook" so quickly. It's just text search. Websites disappear. Web apps disappear. Apps disappear. My text file, does not.
- inakarmacoma 7y ago
  But really working on the go with Android or iOS is painful, no?
  - brushfoot 7y ago
    As someone with a similar setup, I have a Google Doc named "Weekly Scratchpad" with a shortcut on my Android home screen. At the end of the week, I copy anything worth saving into my plain text file(s) and delete the rest.
- mxuribe 7y ago
  > It doesn't handle video/bookmark/pdf. If I have to save those, I put them in a separate directory and make a note of it in the text file... I've used a similar system in the past (though not based on org mode), but was too brittle if/when "links" broke or were altered. For an over simplistic example, if the references that you made to a video within your master text file(s) breaks because the video's containing folder name has changed even slightly, well that becomes annoying. For a small number of references, types of destination media types, etc., maybe not an issue, but after some point, it can become too much maintenance/annoyance. Is this an issue that you encounter? If so, do you have mitigations for avoiding/resolving the broken links? Just curious.
inakarmacoma 7y ago
DynaList?

tkainrad 7y ago

If you didn't try Notion before, you should probably not judge it solely by my post. It is very versatile and you could probably use it in a way that comes close to what you describe. There is not much support for PDFs or videos though.

karlicoss 7y ago

Not exactly CMS, but I'm working on a browser extension along a similar line of thought. It unifies all bookmarks/notes/chat messages etc you have for a certail URL treating them as first-class: https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#demo https://github.com/karlicoss/promnesia#demo P.S. It's also relevant to bookmark management as well: you get to see not only notes on the bookmark, but also on the 'child' URLs, e.g. if you open someone's twitter profile you'd be able to see their tweets you've favorited. Or if you open some blog, you'd see posts from that blog you saved on Reddit.

1kGarand 7y ago

I have been using a text file (actually an org mode file) since 2009. Before that I used a plain text file. It doesn't handle video/bookmark/pdf. If I have to save those, I put them in a separate directory and make a note of it in the text file. It's pretty well organized, thanks to org mode. It has a section that is by date, like journal entries, and a section that's by topic. Since it's just a single file, it's very easily searchable. It will never "go down". I don't need to run a database (I tried using wiki software for the same purpose). I can even "link" different sections, by having plain text labels. For example, I can refer to "ZFS Setup 2009-01-01" which is another place in the document I can search for. I can "jump" to sections by using the orgmode annotation. Searching for "* Computers" will go to that top level section. I liked this system so much that I also use it at work. People are very impressed that I can find things in my "notebook" so quickly. It's just text search. Websites disappear. Web apps disappear. Apps disappear. My text file, does not.

inakarmacoma 7y ago
But really working on the go with Android or iOS is painful, no?
- brushfoot 7y ago
  As someone with a similar setup, I have a Google Doc named "Weekly Scratchpad" with a shortcut on my Android home screen. At the end of the week, I copy anything worth saving into my plain text file(s) and delete the rest.
mxuribe 7y ago
> It doesn't handle video/bookmark/pdf. If I have to save those, I put them in a separate directory and make a note of it in the text file... I've used a similar system in the past (though not based on org mode), but was too brittle if/when "links" broke or were altered. For an over simplistic example, if the references that you made to a video within your master text file(s) breaks because the video's containing folder name has changed even slightly, well that becomes annoying. For a small number of references, types of destination media types, etc., maybe not an issue, but after some point, it can become too much maintenance/annoyance. Is this an issue that you encounter? If so, do you have mitigations for avoiding/resolving the broken links? Just curious.

inakarmacoma 7y ago

DynaList?