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You are absolutely right about coming back and have no recollection of why I marked this as important. I have always been working on a different tech stack ever

You are absolutely right about coming back and have no recollection of why I marked this as important. I have always been working on a different tech stack every 1 or 2 years and many times same problems come up again. I remember I solved them (found the right answer on SO or may be did something myself) but have to do it all over again. That's when I feel I should have noted it down somewhere. At work I have started writing down a public troubleshooting document where I write down anything which I spent a lot of time and then turned to be something simple (wrong or missing configuration most of the times). These notes help me and sometimes other team members too. But this is in confluence only, which doesn't enforce hierarchy. I don't have a single system of my own. My notes are spread in gists, Google Keep, Dynalist and Markdown files. I don't live in console and Linux isn't my primary OS and Org mode heavily relies on Emacs.

Normille 5y ago
Ditto the previous two posts. I tend to keep some notes in NValt and have also dabbled with VimWiki and VViki [port of VimWiki to AsciiDoc] in the past. But the Vim-based ones are pretty clunky to use and NValt has no inter-linking of notes. What would be really handy would be a way to scrawl annotations on web pages so that, when [as the posters above say] I revisit a web page in future, when looking up something I've forgotten, I could see my "This didn't work!" or "Try 3rd option down" or even just some highlighted or circled text on the page, to save me wasting time. I've tried a few browser plugins which seek to provide this kind of facility but they were never very reliable. To be fair, the ever-changing nature of the web means such things are always trying to label a moving target. Perhaps a plugin that allows you to annotate a web page, archives that version of the page and then, if you visit that URL in future, lets you know 'You already have an annotated version of this URL saved. Do you want to view it?' is the answer.
- pps 5y ago
  You can try that with https://getmemex.com/ https://getmemex.com/

Normille 5y ago

Ditto the previous two posts. I tend to keep some notes in NValt and have also dabbled with VimWiki and VViki [port of VimWiki to AsciiDoc] in the past. But the Vim-based ones are pretty clunky to use and NValt has no inter-linking of notes. What would be really handy would be a way to scrawl annotations on web pages so that, when [as the posters above say] I revisit a web page in future, when looking up something I've forgotten, I could see my "This didn't work!" or "Try 3rd option down" or even just some highlighted or circled text on the page, to save me wasting time. I've tried a few browser plugins which seek to provide this kind of facility but they were never very reliable. To be fair, the ever-changing nature of the web means such things are always trying to label a moving target. Perhaps a plugin that allows you to annotate a web page, archives that version of the page and then, if you visit that URL in future, lets you know 'You already have an annotated version of this URL saved. Do you want to view it?' is the answer.

pps 5y ago
You can try that with https://getmemex.com/ https://getmemex.com/