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about 1 year ago | 3 months ago | |
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MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only |
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notes
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My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
I've been doing something similar for ~20 years at: https://github.com/nickjj/notes
- Running `notes` will open this month's notes for YYYY_MM.txt
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What is your approach to quick note taking during development?
I use a very command line focused approach with https://github.com/nickjj/notes.
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Keep a Knowledge Log
Since about 2001 I used YYYY-MM.txt plain text files and have a shell script to help create notes in the most friendly way I could think of from the command line at https://github.com/nickjj/notes.
Totally works fine for a knowledge log when you're streaming high level details. I still use it today.
But when you want to really go all-in with in-depth notes it's tricky because in 1 month's time if you're hardcore deep in the woods of learning, applying and using something you're going to end up with hundreds of concepts from an assorted set of tools and it kind of stinks to have all of that info sitting in 1 file. Think about using something like Kubernetes. That's really Kubernetes, Kustomize / Helm, EKS, various cloud hosting details (networking, etc.), Terraform and ton of super useful commands / context. Details you for sure want recorded for later.
For this type of info I've been building up a knowledge base with https://obsidian.md/. It's really nice and I highly recommend it. It's been working well for keeping things reasonably categorized without wasting a lot of time on the details around keeping links and tags up to date. It also has Vim mode that's good enough where day to day writing feels natural.
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Show HN: Then – Understand how you spend your time and what influences your mood
Did you end up automating the entries?
For example, I have a command line note taking script at https://github.com/nickjj/notes.
It creates a YYYY-MM-DD.txt file and doesn't include time stamps but it would be a 1 line change to make each entry get timestamped. I didn't do that because personally I'm more interested in monthly notes not per minute.
But I do think removing the barrier of creating entries is an important step with jotting things down, this way you can focus on what you want to write and not the boilerplate.
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Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
A whole bunch of little things, mainly command line tools.
Most of them are open source and also have extensive documentation and a screencast video going over them.
In no specific order:
- https://github.com/nickjj/notes
- https://github.com/nickjj/invoice
- https://github.com/nickjj/wait-until
And a few recent little scripts to solve specific things:
- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-ffmpeg-to-get-an-mp3s-d...
- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-shell-script-to-keep-a-bunc...
- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/bash-aliases-to-prepare-recor...
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Show HN: Note, my simple command line note taking app
Along similar lines, nickjj also has a similar (but bash) notes script at:
https://github.com/nickjj/notes
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Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
While I don't use it personally there's: https://obsidian.md/
It's cross platform and works offline. You write markdown and it produces a visual graph of your data. It supports interlinking notes, tags and images too.
Plain text notes[0] work best for me but I'd probably use Obsidian if I wanted to see things visually. When I tried it out briefly it was really solid.
[0]: https://github.com/nickjj/notes
Espial
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Pinboard addict here.
Tangentially, I would recommend exporting your Pinboard collection periodically to somewhere safe. The service has gotten sketchy in the last year or two. I transitioned mine to a self-hosted instance of Espial.
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Pinboard vs. Raindrop: Two bookmark apps enter
An alternative, one that I began using a year ago after losing confidence in Pinboard is the self-hosted Espial - https://github.com/jonschoning/espial.
The visual presentation is a near complete clone of Pinboard. It also provides a route for Pinboard import.
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Anki is great for memorising... but learning perhaps not so much? (help)
Link repository - I use a self-hosted instance of Espial, but again the technology is unimportant. I mention this only because one of the philosophies of the Zettelkasten is to avoid the collector's fallacy where just by saving something you think you know it. So links go here if I might want to find it again in the future but I don't have time to think about it now or take notes on it into the ZK.
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PKM As A Solution for Browser Tab-Hoarding
Saving URL's: For the most part, I don't like existing built-in bookmarking solutions in most browsers, because they seem to treat metadata cursorily or just ignore it. I've started using Espial which is a self-hosted Pinboard knock-off that allows me to tag and comment on URL's that I save.
- Self hosted app with web clipper feature
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I closed a lot of browser tabs
you could run my self-hosted bookmarking site locally (which includes basic notes) https://github.com/jonschoning/espial
- Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
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The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer
I actively avoid super general code in my Haskell applications.
Here's some code to add a bookmark in an api controller:
https://github.com/jonschoning/espial/blob/master/src/Handle...
What are some alternatives?
neatroff - Neatroff troff clone
Shiori - Simple bookmark manager built with Go
ping-heatmap - A tool for displaying subsecond offset heatmaps of ICMP ping latency
linkding - Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
pdftilecut - pdftilecut lets you sub-divide a PDF page(s) into smaller pages so you can print them on small form printers.
Reminiscence - Self-Hosted Bookmark And Archive Manager
dockly - Immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers and services
Firefox Account Server - Monorepo for Firefox Accounts
shpotify - A command-line interface to Spotify.
Hackershare - Hackershare is a powerful social bookmarking service and a knowledge-sharing community, with advanced search and tag management feature
wireguird - wireguard gtk gui for linux
LinkAce - LinkAce is a self-hosted archive to collect links of your favorite websites.