Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge?

Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge? by lolive on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:59PM (#26936614)

Obsidian was the mind opener for me. Simple to use. Backuped on Dropbox on my various machines, it is my ubiquitous personal knowledge base. The fact that you can copy/paste HTML from web pages into it makes me rebuild knowledge I get from the internet into my own version. Really really a fundamental tool for me. The Vi of knowledge.

PS: I don't know the other tools (notion, roam,...) PPS: a big downside in Obsidian, in my humble opinion, is publishing that knowledge on the web. Probably a static CMS on top of the .md file generated with Obsidian can do the trick. But it is a tedious step that I never had/wanted to investigate.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge? by unicodepepper on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:20PM (#26937658)

I have not tried this with Obsidian yet, but I know that Markdeep allows you to render .md files on the fly as HTML by appending some javascript to the unmodified markdown.

https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge? by jamie_ca on Monday April 26, 2021 @12:50PM (#26944742)

Yeah, it can tie in really nicely with a static site generator.

I use Notable rather than Obsidian, but it works the same (folder of .md files). My blog builds with Bridgetown, and I wrote a little bit of extra code to handle the wikilink formatting and build up an incoming link list, but it runs pretty cleanly. https://blog.tracefunc.com/notes/

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge? by vcavallo on Monday April 26, 2021 @07:58AM (#26941583)

The .md publishing step you’re asking about is very neatly handled by Neuron (https://neuron.zettel.page/). The community is helpful and the original author of the project is a great guy and accessible on matrix.

you’ll be up and publishing in no time (for free and automatically to GH pages if you want)

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge? by samstave on Sunday April 25, 2021 @05:16PM (#26936758)

What about that post just earlier today for HTML-izing .md files in addition to turning them into presentation slides

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge? by rasulkireev on Sunday April 25, 2021 @06:41PM (#26937410)

The is the Obsidian Publish service exactly for that usecase. (https://obsidian.md/publish), although it is paid. I'm sure there will be soon, if not already, an open source extension that allows you to do that.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge? by lolive on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:11AM (#26940678)

Several people I know simply donate money to the Obsidian project directly. But I agree that paying for their publishing service is more a win-win. You help the project PLUS you get the publishing service. I will probably do that. (and yell that I need this or that feature, that the service does not provide yet :)

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