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Unless it's a well defined technical solution or a very deep and narrow (well defined) topic, I've always found "the answer" to be spread across multiple webpag
by MaknMoreGtnLess 5y ago
Unless it's a well defined technical solution or a very deep and narrow (well defined) topic, I've always found "the answer" to be spread across multiple webpages/sites/sources. To tackle this:
1. I have a coarse hierarchy of topic names as a directory tree
2. These directories have mostly text files in them but can also have PDF etc
3. Text files contain my summary/"the answer" followed by the relevant extract
from webpage (citation). There usually are multiple such citations
4. Since I mainly deal with a lot of textual context, I have mostly text files but there are situations where I need spreadsheets/pictures/video - in those cases, I save the webpages as PDF but maintain a parallel version of #3 with notes to refer to the native format when spreadsheets/pictures/video need to be involved
- krishadi 5y agoDo you use something like Obsidian/Evernote to do this?
- MaknMoreGtnLess 5y agoI was trying to use Dendron but it struggles with text files larger than a few hundred KBs and my text files can often go into 10s of MBs. Plus I like to use ASCIIDoc instead of MD. I won't ever use proprietary tools, specially those I have to pay recurring fees for because I would need to use these notes for nearly 50 years.