Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?

Re:Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge? by justinnhli on Saturday September 01, 2018 @05:55PM (#17894083)

Can you say more about how you use Airtable? To me Airtable has a really appealing low/zero startup cost, but then I'm always tripped up by not being able to do arbitrary queries, joins, etc. to create new views.

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Re:Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge? by kepano on Saturday September 01, 2018 @07:49PM (#17894536)

I use Airtable for "quantified self" type things like logging workouts and health metrics, also tracking reviews of books and movies, planning travel, and anything that I would otherwise use spreadsheets for.

By the way, you can do simple joins in Airtable by using the "lookup" and "rollup" field types, but I agree that it is relatively limited in that respect.

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Re:Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge? by bfirsh on Saturday September 01, 2018 @11:09PM (#17895323)

I use Airtable for this stuff too. Unfortunately it doesn’t work offline (not even reads!) so I’m very close to reverting back to spreadsheets.

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