personal_notes VS ankicommunity-sync-server

I keep a relatively large amount of notes (1), which are fundamental to my learning.

My notes are essentially books in markdown format, which I can open with the editor/IDE I use when working on any project.

My opinions are:

- the vast majority of the effort is spent on cataloguing knowledge when adding new notes (that is, keeping each book consistently structured); this is something that no tool can do, and as a consequence, any tool will probably do equal.

- a consequence of the cataloguing effort is that the brain better remembers the topics stored.

- searching is where the other effort goes; I've found that as long as the books are consistently structured, and one puts a bit of effort to make concepts easily findable, a textual search does well. probably, a tool to do fulltext search may help in some cases, but I rarely find the need

For things that require rote memorization (say, System-V x64 calling conventions), I use Anki.

I take notes almost only for computer/science related stuff. If I had to catalogue diverse topics, I'd probably just use subdirectories.

(1): https://github.com/64kramsystem/personal_notes/tree/master/t...

It seems that this HN post got some interest, so here's my TIL repository: https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/personal_notes :)

No need for complex server setup

But if you are still above limits, then there is an open source Anki sync server code. You can run it on your PC and use it instead of Anki Web server: https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server

If you have a knowledge of programming, you may use this self host sync server. https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server

Question here. I have my Anki collection that I use on several machines (2 pcs and 1 phone). However, I would also like to have offline server for storing some flashcards on professional stuff I don't want shared on Anki servers (that could violate NDA agreements I am bound with). I've done some preliminary research and it seems like https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server could be used for creating private Anki server. However I'm not sure how to set it up properly so it won't interfere with my AnkiWeb setup. My guesses are either:

It already exists: https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server

Unfortunately, I reached this limit (with almost 1,8 million reviews and a couple hundred thousand cards), and Git Hub's alternative sync server seems not to work with IOS App. I'd willing to pay for more space, if I had this option.

Yes, maybe the Anki developers wouldn't want to provide syncing for someone that is just using AnkiDroid everywhere, but solutions like this exist: https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server