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Ask HN: What is your personal knowledge management system?

21 points by wtznc 6y ago

SirensOfTitan 6y ago
I use org-mode in emacs: * For scratch notes I have a little bit of elisp I wrote to take a note title and file it into a year/month folder with day prefix * For permanent notes I use org-roam with a zettelkasten-like method. I do one idea per note and link each new note into a couple other notes that seem relevant. * todo.org for concrete tasks * inbox.org for anything of interest to process later. I use beorg on my phone to add to this. * contacts.org for birthdays I also use SuperMemo 18 for incremental reading, a general deck for facts I deem important, and a deck for my Russian learning. I haven’t totally figured out this piece yet though, and there’s a nuance to what goes into my zettelkasten and what goes into my spaced repetition decks.
benhoyt 6y ago
My brain. Which is true :-) ... but maybe more what you are asking: a todo.txt file, as well as my personal website with my public writing -- that's as much for my memory/knowledge as anyone else's.
- OOvsuOO 6y ago
  I agree the brain is the most powerful computer. No matter that the computers can compute so much faster and blah blah. The brain. I do need to write things down or draw things down. That helps with recall. Remember that Humans are really using a tiny percentage of our Brains. We have untapped potential.
h0p3 6y ago
I use Tiddlywiki. https://philosopher.life/ https://philosopher.life/
brettkromkamp 6y ago
I use my own opensource application, Contextualise (https://contextualise.dev/ https://contextualise.dev/). But, also check out this list of knowledge graph / second brain / digital gardening resources, here: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/awesome-knowledge-graph https://github.com/brettkromkamp/awesome-knowledge-graph
AbenezerMamo 6y ago
Airtable & Mindmap
khannavid 6y ago
I use Trello. Its columns show different categories: - Column1: Useful tools and Interesting startups (Cards: B2B, B2C, personal, etc.) - C2: Blog ideas (and helpful resources for them) - C3: Entertainment list (tv series watch list, my fav movies, weird directors, etc.) - C4: To learn list (Articles, books, etc by their subjects) - C5-10: Learned items (important things i learned sorted by subject and finished time)
protonimitate 6y ago
Joplin. I tried more involved approaches like knowledge graphs and wikis but found I spent more time researching and setting up these things than actually using them. The simplest way for me to store and retrieve info I need is to be able to dump it into a .md and search over everything. I do like the idea of having a personal wiki, but right now I don't have enough depth of information to warrant the transfer. Anything that I need in depth information is usually already in a wiki somewhere, so I don't really see the point in duplicating the information.
pruthvishetty 6y ago
Chrome bookmarks. Folders.

21 points by wtznc 6y ago

I use org-mode in emacs: * For scratch notes I have a little bit of elisp I wrote to take a note title and file it into a year/month folder with day prefix * For permanent notes I use org-roam with a zettelkasten-like method. I do one idea per note and link each new note into a couple other notes that seem relevant. * todo.org for concrete tasks * inbox.org for anything of interest to process later. I use beorg on my phone to add to this. * contacts.org for birthdays I also use SuperMemo 18 for incremental reading, a general deck for facts I deem important, and a deck for my Russian learning. I haven’t totally figured out this piece yet though, and there’s a nuance to what goes into my zettelkasten and what goes into my spaced repetition decks.

benhoyt 6y ago

My brain. Which is true :-) ... but maybe more what you are asking: a todo.txt file, as well as my personal website with my public writing -- that's as much for my memory/knowledge as anyone else's.

OOvsuOO 6y ago
I agree the brain is the most powerful computer. No matter that the computers can compute so much faster and blah blah. The brain. I do need to write things down or draw things down. That helps with recall. Remember that Humans are really using a tiny percentage of our Brains. We have untapped potential.

h0p3 6y ago

I use Tiddlywiki. https://philosopher.life/ https://philosopher.life/

brettkromkamp 6y ago

I use my own opensource application, Contextualise (https://contextualise.dev/ https://contextualise.dev/). But, also check out this list of knowledge graph / second brain / digital gardening resources, here: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/awesome-knowledge-graph https://github.com/brettkromkamp/awesome-knowledge-graph

AbenezerMamo 6y ago

Airtable & Mindmap

khannavid 6y ago

I use Trello. Its columns show different categories: - Column1: Useful tools and Interesting startups (Cards: B2B, B2C, personal, etc.) - C2: Blog ideas (and helpful resources for them) - C3: Entertainment list (tv series watch list, my fav movies, weird directors, etc.) - C4: To learn list (Articles, books, etc by their subjects) - C5-10: Learned items (important things i learned sorted by subject and finished time)

protonimitate 6y ago

Joplin. I tried more involved approaches like knowledge graphs and wikis but found I spent more time researching and setting up these things than actually using them. The simplest way for me to store and retrieve info I need is to be able to dump it into a .md and search over everything. I do like the idea of having a personal wiki, but right now I don't have enough depth of information to warrant the transfer. Anything that I need in depth information is usually already in a wiki somewhere, so I don't really see the point in duplicating the information.

pruthvishetty 6y ago

Chrome bookmarks. Folders.