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by tkainrad 7y ago
With slash commands, I do not mean keyboard shortcuts. The lack of customized keyboard shortcuts is one of my issues with Notion, but their slash commands are great. It basically means that you can access all kinds of features by just typin
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by tkainrad 7y ago
This was very interesting for me to read. I am a heavy user of Notion and recently documented my own knowledge management practices [1]. I understand some of the Notion criticism, but I think you can get around most of it. Instead of relyin
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by tkainrad 7y ago
Cool idea! "Unfortunately", I have grown too accustomed to Notion's usability feautures (e.g. markdown, slash commands, organizing in databases) to switch apps again. I think it would be cool to visualize notes of other apps
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by tkainrad 7y ago
This looks very interesting. Somehow didn't know about Mindforger, even though I read a lot about this subject. Recently published a blog post about my own knowledge management practices as a software engineer: https://tkain
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by tkainrad 7y ago
Hmm, what is it you don't like about code blocks in Notion? Don't think it can get much more convenient. The only things I miss is auto-format and maybe automated language detection. I don't know of any web-based tool that ca
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by tkainrad 7y ago
I think Markdown does qualify as machine-readable. There are very good libraries to do all kinds of things with it. Edit: I guess you meant human-readable as opposed to things like base64, and not as a critique against Markdown. By now, t
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by tkainrad 7y ago
I have not yet done a complete export of my workspace. I do however often export specific databases, notes, etc. My post describes how I use it to draft my blog posts, where I also use the Markdown export feature. The code blocks are fine a
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by tkainrad 7y ago
I would love an alternative that is free/and or possible to self-host. However, I do not see how this compares to Notion. How do I edit this HTML file on my phone? How do I add bookmarks to it via a hotkey? What is the equivalent of No
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by tkainrad 7y ago
I will soon disable this for non-EU visitors. A more sophisticated cookie agreement banner is not so trivial to do with static sites. As long as everybody is doing it this way, even big corporations, I will keep this approach for EU visitor
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by tkainrad 7y ago
You can get the general theme here: https://github.com/luizdepra/hugo-coder/ My blog itself is not open source. I thought about this for a while, but I think the pressure to keep everything cleaned up, documented,
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by tkainrad 7y ago
I fully agree with this sentiment. It is very important to not have the feeling that you need to revisit all your bookmarks. In that case, you will eventually feel overwhelmed and a bookmarks library will do more harm than good.
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by tkainrad 7y ago
During my first weeks of Notion usage, I was repeatedly baffled that I never thought more about personal usage of relational databases, as they make so much sense for organizing notes, and many other things. Having Notion, and also other al
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by tkainrad 7y ago
I am sure that there are things OneNote is even better at than Notion. However, some of the most important concepts covered in my post are databases, relations between those databases, and editing workflows (markdown, slash commands). As fa
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by tkainrad 7y ago
Obviously, you have a point. I am indeed a little bit worried. Some things that ease my mind: Notion's export and backup features are quite good. You can export everything in various formats, markdown being the most relevant for me. T
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by tkainrad 7y ago
Thank you for the nice feedback, much appreciated! > Ad using native bookmark sources, such as HN/Twitter/... You are right, this is not ideal and it also happens to me that I am no longer sure where to look first. On the plus
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by tkainrad 7y ago
If you didn't try Notion before, you should probably not judge it solely by my post. It is very versatile and you could probably use it in a way that comes close to what you describe. There is not much support for PDFs or videos though
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by tkainrad 7y ago
Alright, will make some changes, i.e. not showing it to non-EU visitors and making it a little smaller. Thanks!
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by tkainrad 7y ago
Cool idea! What does the "7d" metric mean? I would expect new users in the last 7 days? Why is it 0 for the top chrome extensions?
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Managing my personal knowledge base(tkainrad.dev)
348 points by tkainrad 7y ago|186 comments
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by tkainrad 7y ago
Very nice and detailed tutorial! I like also other content on your page and bookmarked your blog :) I created a similar post a while ago, might be interesting for some who want to use GitLab instead of GitHub + Netlify: https://t
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by tkainrad 7y ago
Oh, wasn't really aware that it would be so large in some cases. Thank you for this feedback. Could you tell me which kind of device you were using, I guess a relatively small mobile phone?
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by tkainrad 7y ago
I refurbished the landing page of my personal blog site during the Christmas holidays and have received some very nice feedback: https://tkainrad.dev/
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Ask HN: How does a minimap help you with programming?
2 points by tkainrad 7y ago|2 comments
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by tkainrad 7y ago
If you are happy with a given template and only want to make minor modifications (i.e. coloring, logos,...) it should still be a good choice. But the same goes also for e.g. Wordpress.
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by tkainrad 7y ago
I recommend using a static site generator. It brings precisely the features you ask for: - easy SEO optimization, especially compared to SPA - easy content management, GitOps - fast, scales well - free to host via various se
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by tkainrad 7y ago
I think the app has gotten a lot better recently. I am not so sure what you mean by confirming changes/done button - Usually things are saved directly without confirmation. However, I do agree that Notion is best used with a laptop&#x2
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by tkainrad 7y ago
I kinda like making blog posts, partly because of the rewarding feeling of getting to release new posts. Updating articles would probably not be as rewarding. Still, I like the concept and will think about it. E.g. I have a long post about
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by tkainrad 7y ago
What kind of changes do you think would warrant a new post? Does it make sense to write a new post if only one out of many sections is rewritten? Or do you mean to somehow make a new post with only the new information and link to the old on
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by tkainrad 7y ago
I am currently writing an extensive blog post on this topic, still several weeks away from being finished though. I use several tools, but mainly Notion - https://www.notion.so/ . It can do everything you ask, except its han
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by tkainrad 7y ago
Thanks for your input. Having an automated way of exposing changes seems like a great idea. I am just not so sure If I am happy with the respective post still showing up at the bottom of my /posts page because the original date remains

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