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Bookmarks: locally in the browser. Either I use them a lot, or they die forgotten. Not very good on this. For code snippets: Gists and StackOverflow. I treat S
by jakub_g 7y ago
Bookmarks: locally in the browser. Either I use them a lot, or they die forgotten. Not very good on this.
For code snippets: Gists and StackOverflow. I treat StackOverflow as public global wiki. The good side of the two is that they are both very well indexed by Google, and it happened several times already I came across my own gists/stacks from several years ago.
Apart from that, I have a "dotfiles" repo where I have a lot of aliases, sometimes trivial, sometimes really long complex pipes. Not all of them are directly usable, but if I remember alias name, I can `type <aliasname>` in bash and it shows me the command, and I can copy and change it as needed.
Recently, I started using GitHub private repos for tracking random knowledge. For example, I'm learning about finance and I put random stuff all there (links, screenshots, quotes, my own analyses) as GitHub issues. The advantage of this is that I'm always logged in to GitHub anyway on all my devices, so the friction is lower than any other solution, and I'm less likely to forget "where did I have this stuff"; plus it's the same markdown syntax I use everyday, and CTRL-V works for pasting images.
I also started using GH issues for some complex personal tasks, say, I need to do some lengthy paperwork for government which consists of N things. The possibility to put screenshost, links, checklists all together is pretty nice (I don't put any personal info there).
It's a bit weird to use GH so much, but out of my laziness and pragmatism, this works best for me.
One more place I use: Twitter. There's in general too much stuff I read everyday to not forget about most of them (even if I bookmark), but somehow the fact of tweeting about something makes me remember it more.