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| | Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository? | |
136 points by lethologica on May 25, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 123 comments |
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| And if so, which software do you use? I'm fascinated by storing things that I learn outside of my own brain. Ideally I'd love to create my own mini intranet of information, basically a personal wiki, that I can go to first before having to Google things, especially for my field of study. I've looked into various Wiki packages but none quite seem to offer what I'm looking for (Mac, no need for a webserver, cross device functionality, math markup, searchability, tags) If you do keep a personal knowledge repository, can you please describe your workflow for using and maintaining one for all the new knowledge you acquire? |
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If it is for the long haul, plain text is the only way to go (org-mode, etc).
Any proprietary commercial solution will fade away in a handful of years. At best, you might be able to extract the content before they shut down but structure and metadata may be lost.
Open source self-hosted solutions will last much longer but even in that case it might get to a point the source has been abandoned so long that it becomes difficult to keep going.
Only plain text will survive. I have plenty of notes in a more or less organized directory tree, dating back to the late 80s.