Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository?

Re:Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository? by GeorgeHahn on Saturday May 25, 2019 @01:25AM (#20007280)

I use BookStack (https://www.bookstackapp.com). MIT licensed & easy to self host.

It's fast and has good search, a good editor, and uses simple hierarchical organization + tagging. I like that it gets out of my way and does a good job of handling everything from code snippets to freeform thoughts to recipes.

BookStack is best for things that 'look like' documents. Mobile editing could also be better - you have to click a maximize button to get a usable view of the editor and the editor UI still takes up a lot of space. It is web based, but it is very lightweight and I have found it very easy to host.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledge repository? by ssddanbrown on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:22AM (#20007943)

BookStack developer here. Thank you for sharing the project. If you have not yet updated to v0.26 it might be worth doing so as, upon many other UI changes, I focused on trying to improve the mobile UX [1]. Still some issues in iOS to resolve though.

[1] https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/beta-release-v0-26-0/#mobi...

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