[HN Gopher] Evolving my note-taking processes
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       Evolving my note-taking processes
        
       Author : mttyng
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2022-09-09 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | samsquire wrote:
       | I journal computer and software ideas as markdown files out in
       | the open on GitHub. When I get to 100-300 entries I move onto a
       | new repository.
       | 
       | https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas
       | https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas2
       | https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas3
       | https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas4
       | https://GitHub.com/samsquire/startups
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       | I create a new markdown heading for each entry and write.
       | 
       | It's searchable and the data is easy to synchronize, backup and
       | use and the solution shall last for multiple decades maybe even
       | longer.
       | 
       | It's also indexed by Google.
       | 
       | I'm still tweaking my first journal that I created in 2013.
       | 
       | At one point I tried to love Emacs and I am yet to use org mode.
       | I actually use the GitHub interface mostly to update my journal.
       | And before that vim and lately IntelliJ which includes preview
       | features.
       | 
       | I would recommend if you want to write notes or create an
       | external mind to improve your thinking just write. The tool you
       | use doesn't really matter. It's the quality and reward from
       | writing and rereading what you wrote.
        
         | interroboink wrote:
         | > I would recommend if you want to write notes or create an
         | external mind to improve your thinking just write.
         | 
         | Agreed. Personally, I still use paper + pencil for a lot of
         | things. Even if I never rustle through my stacks of notes to
         | find it again, I already got a big chunk of the value from just
         | writing it.
         | 
         | Aside: I find rustling through my notes to be useful in itself,
         | even though it's inefficient on the surface. Electronic systems
         | are so good at finding exactly what you want as quickly as
         | possible that the "browse around and see what you bump into"
         | experience can get lost.
         | 
         | Sometimes I'll just happen to see diagram X next to diagram Y
         | and come up with a new insight, where if I only ever saw what I
         | was specifically looking for, I'd lose that. Though I do waste
         | a lot of time, too (:
        
           | samsquire wrote:
           | I reread my journal to try come up with new ideas. I think
           | explaining your problem can reveal solutions. Rubber ducking.
           | 
           | My stack of paper drawings and diagrams and notes was thrown
           | away by accident. So I only have my digital notes left.
           | 
           | As it was for Richard Feynman, writing is thinking itself.
        
       | sureglymop wrote:
       | What I want in a personal note taking system is something where I
       | can link anything. Anything is just a generic object that can be
       | linked to and worked with.
       | 
       | Like a mix between Logseq and Nextcloud, where I can still use
       | CalDav and CardDav but I can link to tasks and calendar events
       | and contacts from my notes.
       | 
       | And i can link to a certain pdf page right from my notes.. or
       | even a certain page of a word document. Anything needs to be
       | treated as a generic object of content that is linkable.
        
         | vavooom wrote:
         | Sounds like you are looking for a Zettelkasten [1], which is a
         | way of organizing notes around a loose linked structure. I use
         | Obsidian[2] for mine!
         | 
         | [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten#:~:text=A%20Ze
         | t....
         | 
         | [2] https://obsidian.md/
        
       | alexalx666 wrote:
       | Is there a clone of Standard Notes which includes basic plugins
       | for free? I almost think it was a mistake to go with SN for self-
       | hosted notes
        
         | Daedren wrote:
         | You can also self-host the Standard Notes extensions though.
        
         | gnuj3 wrote:
         | notesnook.com
        
       | parthianshotgun wrote:
       | ITT someone who hasn't heard of Obsidian
        
       | reactspa wrote:
       | Markdown question:
       | 
       | I want to take create a chronological journal where I track
       | tutorials I've done (and how well, etc), but I want to add some
       | sort of a tag wherever I feel like so that with a click I can
       | find all my entries related to (say) React, or R (statistics),
       | and so on.
       | 
       | If you're reading this, and have had luck with such a tagging
       | mechanism, please share your solution.
       | 
       | FOSS only, of course.
        
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