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hmm interesting idea. I've been trying all kinds of different tools for documenting my work/code snippets/notes.... But nothing sticked. Mind explaining more on that? Would it be stupid to have a wiki like system inside jupyter?



I really prefer small text files, preferably org-mode. But, I just made a radical change that is so far working for me: I signed up for G Suite for my personal domain, and manually copied over org-mode, Apple notes, etc. to Keep Notes. I copied all purchased PDF eBooks, ACM Communications PDFs, and important research papers to Google Drive, and copied over all old email. With Cloud Search, I can find any of this stuff instantly.

As a programmer, there is no larger time saver than having notes for code snippets, configuration file examples, etc.

I used to use Evernote, then I wrote a personal version of Evernote in Clojure that worked really well for me, except everything was just on my primary laptop. G Suite is not great from a privacy standpoint (but I can live with it) but for me wins out for convenience - well worth $12/month.

EDIT: I used to keep Jupiter-lab running on a GPU leased server for machine learning educational projects. If I still did that, as other people here have pointed out, with the new file interface Jupiter-lab would be a good choice, esapecially with some customization to implement a global search to find stuff quickly in all notebooks.


Have you tried the new JupyterLab interface yet? It's pretty straight forward to segregate your content into separate notebooks in that setting since you have quick access to a filesystem view. That said, I also have a wiki with 10+ years of my medical notes in it. I love the wiki, but work keeps blocking my domain (I have lots of images from med school that I'm sure have a copyright on them, so I can't just make the wiki public access, therefore the little ladies in tennis shoes at BrightCloud mark it as "personal storage".


I have just started using jupyter with jupyter lab for notes. I havent gotten as far as making a full wiki system, but I definitely think it is possible. My killer feature is the ability to drop in code from a lot of different languages. I haven't fully tested it, but I am optimistic in its power

Disclaimer: I have used todoist, emacs org-mode, wunderlist and trialled a dozen other task management programs.




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