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Ask HN: How do you document/index random thoughts, observations, & learnings?

4 points by Throwawayh89 3y ago

billconan 3y ago
I implemented my own notion clone that saves my notes to txt files and I version control them on github. I plan to implement a static site generator to generate my blog out of them.
- bckr 3y ago
  Is this open source? I’d love to check out your solution
  - Throwawayh89 3y ago
    Second the interest in that!
    - billconan 3y ago
      yes, but very buggy https://github.com/shi-yan/Epiphany https://github.com/shi-yan/Epiphany
anthonyhn 3y ago
Wikipedia has a page on single-user personal wikis that are great for organizing your notes[0]. If you're looking for something simple and unixy, Zim is a pretty good choice[1]. It's an offline GTK-based GUI application for creating personal wikis that saves all the wiki pages as Markdown files and can export your wiki as HTML using various templates. Zim has been available in many linux package repos for over a decade and is GPL-2.0 licensed. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_wiki?useskin=vector#Single-user_wiki_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_wiki?useskin=vector#S... [1] https://zim-wiki.org/ https://zim-wiki.org/
gavenkoa 3y ago
Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management_software Usually you end with wiki or plain text files. Some popular offers: * https://roamresearch.com/ https://roamresearch.com/ * https://www.orgroam.com/ https://www.orgroam.com/
TroyZ 3y ago
https://obsidian.md/ https://obsidian.md/
- smilingyoda 3y ago
  +1 for Obsidian! I tried a number of things over the years - OneNote, Notion, emacs + org-mode, but I've finally settled on Obsidian, with the files backed up in a git repo. I love the clean UI and the tagging features.
hnfong 3y ago
I just write markdown documents and push it to github. There's also a URL with a textbox that can save small snippets of text. No auth needed to save, but auth needed to retrieve the saved contents. This helps when I'm on the road and need to quickly save something.

4 points by Throwawayh89 3y ago

I implemented my own notion clone that saves my notes to txt files and I version control them on github. I plan to implement a static site generator to generate my blog out of them.

bckr 3y ago
Is this open source? I’d love to check out your solution
- Throwawayh89 3y ago
  Second the interest in that!
  - billconan 3y ago
    yes, but very buggy https://github.com/shi-yan/Epiphany https://github.com/shi-yan/Epiphany

anthonyhn 3y ago

Wikipedia has a page on single-user personal wikis that are great for organizing your notes[0]. If you're looking for something simple and unixy, Zim is a pretty good choice[1]. It's an offline GTK-based GUI application for creating personal wikis that saves all the wiki pages as Markdown files and can export your wiki as HTML using various templates. Zim has been available in many linux package repos for over a decade and is GPL-2.0 licensed. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_wiki?useskin=vector#Single-user_wiki_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_wiki?useskin=vector#S... [1] https://zim-wiki.org/ https://zim-wiki.org/

gavenkoa 3y ago

Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management_software Usually you end with wiki or plain text files. Some popular offers: * https://roamresearch.com/ https://roamresearch.com/ * https://www.orgroam.com/ https://www.orgroam.com/

TroyZ 3y ago

https://obsidian.md/ https://obsidian.md/

smilingyoda 3y ago
+1 for Obsidian! I tried a number of things over the years - OneNote, Notion, emacs + org-mode, but I've finally settled on Obsidian, with the files backed up in a git repo. I love the clean UI and the tagging features.

hnfong 3y ago

I just write markdown documents and push it to github. There's also a URL with a textbox that can save small snippets of text. No auth needed to save, but auth needed to retrieve the saved contents. This helps when I'm on the road and need to quickly save something.