Re:Ask HN: How do you track what you learn?
by hanniabu on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:13AM
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How do you keep all the markdown files organized and easily searchable? Or do you never reference back to them after you've taken the notes?
Re:Ask HN: How do you track what you learn?
by jacobsims on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:19PM
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I also started something similar at https://jacobsims.github.io/til/ -- to search them you can just use GitHub search, which is available in that top bar. I also spent a bit more effort creating category pages that look like fancy little tags (due to limits of Jekyll, I can't paginate them, but it will work for a while anyway).
Re:Ask HN: How do you track what you learn?
by arrmn on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @02:54PM
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I do plan to reference back to the notes or else they would be meaningless.
My current solution is to add categories to the posts and the use jekyll to generate a page where I create a headline for each category and link to all related posts there. This may not be the final solution, it was thrown together one evening so there's improvement.
I don't know how this will scale since I just started this project.
I stole his idea[1] and created jekyll blog on Github, I can just create a new .md file and put the things for the til down. With the new upload feature from github you can also just write the md file locally and just drop it in.
I like it so far, just need to get in the habit of writing it down daily.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11068902 [1] https://github.com/jbranchaud/til [2] http://arminmsg.github.io/blog/til/ http://arminmsg.github.io/blog/til/