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       Trilium Notes - Markdown autoformat (WYSIWYG) personal knowledge
       base
        
       Author : en3r0
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2020-05-28 10:41 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | en3r0 wrote:
       | I have been using Trilium lately and I love it. What sold me
       | completely is the sidebar sections "What Links Here" - my
       | purposeful linking and "Similar Notes" - reminding me of what I
       | may have forgotten.
        
         | en3r0 wrote:
         | Also the fact that I can completely self host it on a server
         | while running a local client on any machine that syncs
         | effortlessly.
        
       | mkl wrote:
       | Previous discussion (but worth discussing again):
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18840990
        
       | formalsystem wrote:
       | I've tried more than a couple of times to use a personal
       | knowledge base and haven't been succesful in making it stick.
       | 
       | My process so far has been I keep a daily journal where I write
       | down the most interesting things I learnt or did everyday. If my
       | daily notes are getting unwieldy then I use a Markdown file which
       | I sync on Github. And when I really want to make sure that I've
       | understood something I'll either write a blogpost or stream
       | myself going through a library.
       | 
       | I would definitely appreciate the ability to search my old notes
       | better since they got too long to efficiently parse a long time
       | ago but this process lets me structure the really important
       | concepts I learn without adding too much overhead when I'm just
       | learning random stuff. I also expect my notes to outlast many
       | knowledge base projects and part of the appeal of markdown to me
       | is that it's probably gonna be around for a while.
       | 
       | I'm curious if any writers here have found personal knowledge
       | bases to be worth the initial overhead.
        
         | bwat49 wrote:
         | > My process so far has been I keep a daily journal where I
         | write down the most interesting things I learnt or did everyday
         | 
         | Trilium should work great for this, you can press ctrl + alt +
         | p to automatically create a new day note under a calendar tree.
         | 
         | In my case, I also added a custom shortcut/button that brings
         | me to the current day in the calendar tree
        
       | souterrain wrote:
       | I find that an ability to search the knowledgebase exceeds the
       | value of organizing according to a hierarchy. I can see some
       | value in linking/backlinking a la an encyclopedic "See also"
       | reference for discovering similar information that doesn't share
       | keywords.
       | 
       | Are there other disadvantages to an "all search" solution I'm
       | overlooking?
        
       | kurzawa7 wrote:
       | Will give this a shot. Looks like a modern alternative to
       | CherryTree. I find these hierarchical note taking apps useful for
       | organising complex projects which usually require several levels
       | deep of note organisation. I also use Joplin for general note
       | taking and Google Keep for website resources. I'm set.
        
         | maxwellwhite wrote:
         | Website resources?
        
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