Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?

Re:Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and l... by vendiddy on Monday October 21, 2019 @05:33AM (#21310525)

I do this too. I use Sublime text in distraction free mode with a git plugin so I can easily commit/push changes.

On my Mac, I can do the 4-finger swipe to check my full-screen notes. Usually I have a folder structure like notes/2019-10/2019-10-21.txt. If I want to tag things, I'll just write #idea #work somewhere in the text file.

Then easy to search with Sublime or whatever tool you want. I also like this approach because it's future-proof. Just a folder full of text files.

Curious how others are handling this same workflow.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and l... by synlatexc on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:15AM (#21324570)

Same here, though mine is one gigantic text file that dates back ~20 years.

Expect to continue updating/referencing it for decades to come, bar some calamity.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and l... by doomjunky on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @08:43PM (#21329959)

How? Chronologically or structured by topics? Appending at the top or buttom? Timestamps? Tags? How do you navigate through the file?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and l... by synlatexc on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @09:53AM (#21334633)

There are a couple sections, but for the most part it's chronological, with new entries at the bottom. Started adding dates to new notes/quotes/observations about 5 years ago.

It's a sprawling mess, so I rely on search to find what I'm after.

I reference it often -- it's like an extension of my brain.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and l... by 64738 on Sunday October 27, 2019 @02:05AM (#21368107)

I do the exact same thing. Just a text file that these days I store in a Dropbox folder so that no matter what system I'm on I can just "vi ~/Dropbox/notes.txt".

Similarly, several years ago I added a keybind to my .vimrc that, by typing ",a" I'm moved to the bottom of the file and today's date with a separator line underneath. My leader key is "," and I mnemonically associate "a" with "append".

The earliest date recorded in it goes back to 2006 and is about 300KB in size. I still reference and add to it on a regular basis.

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