Re:Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base?
by stockkid on Sunday July 15, 2018 @07:31AM
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My reason for keeping a knowledge base is to forget less of what I learn every day.
I used to use Evernote for this but it wasn't quite working because of constant context switching and lack of spaced repetition.
So I wrote open source program called Dnote [0] and have been use it every day for the last year to store my learning. To minimize distraction, it works as browser extensions, cli, and IDE plugin. And I automated the spaced repetition by writing a cron job to send me digests every Friday.
I used to use Evernote for this but it wasn't quite working because of constant context switching and lack of spaced repetition.
So I wrote open source program called Dnote [0] and have been use it every day for the last year to store my learning. To minimize distraction, it works as browser extensions, cli, and IDE plugin. And I automated the spaced repetition by writing a cron job to send me digests every Friday.
[0] - https://github.com/dnote-io/cli