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To people who maintain a personal knowledge base: how often do you check older entries of it? And how useful is the graph view as compared to traditional list v

To people who maintain a personal knowledge base: how often do you check older entries of it? And how useful is the graph view as compared to traditional list view note taking grouped by tags?

jjude 6y ago
I take notes in an atomic way (other than clipping interesting articles). Because they are atomic, many of the notes are linked in one manner or the other (either via "concepts", "daily log" etc.). So whenever I revisit one of the "concepts" node, I visit these atomic notes. Also, obsidian has a "open a random note" button. Thus I open a random note once in a while to see if I can learn (or relearn) something + to see if that note is still relevant for me.
- ipiz0618 6y ago
  The "random note" function sounds really neat
lervag 6y ago
My base has somewhere around 200k lines of text. I'm pretty sure some of these are almost never read. But I do open old entries/pages some times. I see no problem in writing a note that I never read. The writing is itself useful, in fact, as it helps me learn and organize information. (FYI: I use a personal wiki based on Vim (with wiki.vim [0]) and a markdown flavor.) [0]: https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim/ https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim/
- ipiz0618 6y ago
  Cool plug-in!
ricg 6y ago
A data point: 11 years of note taking → 1,860 notes. I've been keeping notes for work in a structured way for quite some time. I log everything that I might want to recall later (project/app ideas, active projects, meeting minutes, phone call logs, people/companies I interacted with). Typically I use two methods for retrieval: (1) full text search: I simply search for a keyword; most common access (2) via backlinks: mostly for people when I need to figure out when I last talked to a person and what we agreed upon. I link the person in each meeting minute so that I get a list for links on the person's page. Frequency of access: - For active projects, pretty much each (work) day - For older notes, infrequently, maybe once a month. The older a note becomes, the less likely it is that I will have to access it. I started out with Circus Ponies Notebook, migrated to Scrivener, and two years ago started working on my own app, Life Notes[0] (I really wanted links and backlinks and the ability to keep regular files/PDFs next to my notes). [0]: http://kitestack.com/lifenotes http://kitestack.com/lifenotes

To people who maintain a personal knowledge base: how often do you check older entries of it? And how useful is the graph view as compared to traditional list view note taking grouped by tags?

jjude 6y ago

I take notes in an atomic way (other than clipping interesting articles). Because they are atomic, many of the notes are linked in one manner or the other (either via "concepts", "daily log" etc.). So whenever I revisit one of the "concepts" node, I visit these atomic notes. Also, obsidian has a "open a random note" button. Thus I open a random note once in a while to see if I can learn (or relearn) something + to see if that note is still relevant for me.

ipiz0618 6y ago
The "random note" function sounds really neat

lervag 6y ago

My base has somewhere around 200k lines of text. I'm pretty sure some of these are almost never read. But I do open old entries/pages some times. I see no problem in writing a note that I never read. The writing is itself useful, in fact, as it helps me learn and organize information. (FYI: I use a personal wiki based on Vim (with wiki.vim [0]) and a markdown flavor.) [0]: https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim/ https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim/

ipiz0618 6y ago
Cool plug-in!

ricg 6y ago

A data point: 11 years of note taking → 1,860 notes. I've been keeping notes for work in a structured way for quite some time. I log everything that I might want to recall later (project/app ideas, active projects, meeting minutes, phone call logs, people/companies I interacted with). Typically I use two methods for retrieval: (1) full text search: I simply search for a keyword; most common access (2) via backlinks: mostly for people when I need to figure out when I last talked to a person and what we agreed upon. I link the person in each meeting minute so that I get a list for links on the person's page. Frequency of access: - For active projects, pretty much each (work) day - For older notes, infrequently, maybe once a month. The older a note becomes, the less likely it is that I will have to access it. I started out with Circus Ponies Notebook, migrated to Scrivener, and two years ago started working on my own app, Life Notes[0] (I really wanted links and backlinks and the ability to keep regular files/PDFs next to my notes). [0]: http://kitestack.com/lifenotes http://kitestack.com/lifenotes