Ask HN: Where do you keep your Knowledge Base?

Re:Ask HN: Where do you keep your Knowledge Base? by SanchoPanda on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:13PM (#20822424)

I am perpetually changing this up, but the one constant is workflowy. Things like a cars Vin number, small notes like shell one liners, all the way to large categorized outlines for projects. It takes some getting used to, but the key lesson is for a great many things - text as individual files per subject is not the right metaphor.

I wish they would support an official api, and it kills me that the native desktop app is an electron thing, but all the ways they have not fucked it up in the last 10 years is what makes it worth looking at.

I have a nagging fear that as a VC funded (yc I think) company they will have to sell out eventually.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you keep your Knowledge Base? by joshstrange on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:35PM (#20822635)

I've been rocking NVAlt (with SimpleNote on my iPhone) for a while now. It's just a basic note application but I use it for scratch space, quick notes, gift ideas for friends/family, etc. It's my person central knowledge base (even though it's not organized great, it's more of a knowledge dump). I'm not particularly attached to it to be honest but any replacement would have to meet the follow criteria:

* Light - I don't want "yet another electron app"

* Hotkey-able - I need to be able to assign a hotkey to quickly show/hide the UI. This ONE feature is huge for me and changed how I used NVAlt once I mapped Ctrl+1 to show/hide it

* Mobile clients - iOS needed, android would be nice

* Sync service that I can trust OR using iCloud/Dropbox as a backend

I'm half-considering attempting my own notes app (for the desktop and maybe iPhone) once Swift UI ships since NVAlt doesn't do a ton so I can't imagine it would be terrible to re-implement. I would like to add some minor features to it (Maybe basic to-do list or scheduled reminders) and fix the damn smart quotes thing (I have been bitten too many times from making small tweaks to code/json I throw into it for just 1 second and the quotes being those stupid smart quotes).

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you keep your Knowledge Base? by pixelbath on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:23PM (#20822513)

After going to the Workflowy site I have no idea what it does other than look like a less-colorful OneNote. It's good the App Store requires screenshots to be submitted, because that's the only place I could find any.

What does Workflowy do that's so great?

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