Re:Designing a Personal Knowledgebase
by TeMPOraL on Saturday September 06, 2014 @07:20AM
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> ido-mode helps
Especially with flx-ido (fuzzy matching for names) and ido-vertical-mode; now it's just fun to use :).
> this is an anti-agenda thread
I used to use agenda for doing GTD for over a year sometimes ago; it was awesome for aggregating calendars and TODO lists from multiple files, but I never got around to learning other interesting features. Maybe it's the time to try again :).
> However, outline levels quickly get deep in large files.
Yup. I still have a lot of deeply-nested long .org files - those are usually project-specific, and contain ideas, design notes, TODO lists, etc. But for personal wiki, it feels more natural for me to keep every topic in a separate file (mind you, some of them are quite long; my notes from "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning" are 750+ lines of 4-level deep nesting, and I'm nowhere near finished :)). I fear even thinking about coalescing them into a single file; when your file hits 10k lines (like one of my project notebooks at work), you find out you need to keep it fully expanded, because navigating with top headers folded gets kind of slow.
Especially with flx-ido (fuzzy matching for names) and ido-vertical-mode; now it's just fun to use :).
> this is an anti-agenda thread
I used to use agenda for doing GTD for over a year sometimes ago; it was awesome for aggregating calendars and TODO lists from multiple files, but I never got around to learning other interesting features. Maybe it's the time to try again :).
> However, outline levels quickly get deep in large files.
Yup. I still have a lot of deeply-nested long .org files - those are usually project-specific, and contain ideas, design notes, TODO lists, etc. But for personal wiki, it feels more natural for me to keep every topic in a separate file (mind you, some of them are quite long; my notes from "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning" are 750+ lines of 4-level deep nesting, and I'm nowhere near finished :)). I fear even thinking about coalescing them into a single file; when your file hits 10k lines (like one of my project notebooks at work), you find out you need to keep it fully expanded, because navigating with top headers folded gets kind of slow.