Re:Ask HN: Do you have a personal wiki?
by Normille on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:07AM
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Ditto the previous two posts. I tend to keep some notes in NValt and have also dabbled with VimWiki and VViki [port of VimWiki to AsciiDoc] in the past. But the Vim-based ones are pretty clunky to use and NValt has no inter-linking of notes.
What would be really handy would be a way to scrawl annotations on web pages so that, when [as the posters above say] I revisit a web page in future, when looking up something I've forgotten, I could see my "This didn't work!" or "Try 3rd option down" or even just some highlighted or circled text on the page, to save me wasting time. I've tried a few browser plugins which seek to provide this kind of facility but they were never very reliable. To be fair, the ever-changing nature of the web means such things are always trying to label a moving target.
Perhaps a plugin that allows you to annotate a web page, archives that version of the page and then, if you visit that URL in future, lets you know 'You already have an annotated version of this URL saved. Do you want to view it?' is the answer.
What would be really handy would be a way to scrawl annotations on web pages so that, when [as the posters above say] I revisit a web page in future, when looking up something I've forgotten, I could see my "This didn't work!" or "Try 3rd option down" or even just some highlighted or circled text on the page, to save me wasting time. I've tried a few browser plugins which seek to provide this kind of facility but they were never very reliable. To be fair, the ever-changing nature of the web means such things are always trying to label a moving target.
Perhaps a plugin that allows you to annotate a web page, archives that version of the page and then, if you visit that URL in future, lets you know 'You already have an annotated version of this URL saved. Do you want to view it?' is the answer.