[HN Gopher] Evolving my note-taking processes ___________________________________________________________________ Evolving my note-taking processes Author : mttyng Score : 32 points Date : 2022-09-09 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (codethrasher.com) (TXT) w3m dump (codethrasher.com) | 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 | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-09-09 23:00 UTC)