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Re:Ask HN: How do you document/index random thoughts, observ... by billconan on Saturday April 22, 2023 @03:27PM (#35670121)
I implemented my own notion clone that saves my notes to txt files and I version control them on github. I plan to implement a static site generator to generate my blog out of them.
Re:Ask HN: How do you document/index random thoughts, observ... by bckr on Saturday April 22, 2023 @03:35PM (#35670209)
Is this open source? I’d love to check out your solution
Re:Ask HN: How do you document/index random thoughts, observ... by Throwawayh89 on Saturday April 22, 2023 @04:44PM (#35670747)
Second the interest in that!
Re:Ask HN: How do you document/index random thoughts, observ... by billconan on Saturday April 22, 2023 @08:24PM (#35672169)
Re:Ask HN: How do you document/index random thoughts, observ... by anthonyhn on Saturday April 22, 2023 @05:03PM (#35670916)
Wikipedia has a page on single-user personal wikis that are great for organizing your notes[0].

If you're looking for something simple and unixy, Zim is a pretty good choice[1]. It's an offline GTK-based GUI application for creating personal wikis that saves all the wiki pages as Markdown files and can export your wiki as HTML using various templates. Zim has been available in many linux package repos for over a decade and is GPL-2.0 licensed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_wiki?useskin=vector#S...

[1] https://zim-wiki.org/

Re:Ask HN: How do you document/index random thoughts, observ... by gavenkoa on Saturday April 22, 2023 @06:53PM (#35671641)
Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management_software

Usually you end with wiki or plain text files.

Some popular offers:

* https://roamresearch.com/ * https://www.orgroam.com/

Re:Ask HN: How do you document/index random thoughts, observ... by TroyZ on Sunday April 23, 2023 @12:49AM (#35673359)
Re:Ask HN: How do you document/index random thoughts, observ... by smilingyoda on Sunday April 23, 2023 @10:37AM (#35676603)
+1 for Obsidian! I tried a number of things over the years - OneNote, Notion, emacs + org-mode, but I've finally settled on Obsidian, with the files backed up in a git repo. I love the clean UI and the tagging features.
Re:Ask HN: How do you document/index random thoughts, observ... by hnfong on Sunday April 23, 2023 @11:55PM (#35683490)
I just write markdown documents and push it to github.

There's also a URL with a textbox that can save small snippets of text. No auth needed to save, but auth needed to retrieve the saved contents. This helps when I'm on the road and need to quickly save something.