Keep a Knowledge Log

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Obsidian.md

Since about 2001 I used YYYY-MM.txt plain text files and have a shell script to help create notes in the most friendly way I could think of from the command line at https://github.com/nickjj/notes. Totally works fine for a knowledge log when you're streaming high level details. I still use it today. But when you want to really go all-in with in-depth notes it's tricky because in 1 month's time if you're hardcore deep in the woods of learning, applying and using something you're going to end up with hundreds of concepts from an assorted set of tools and it kind of stinks to have all of that info sitting in 1 file. Think about using something like Kubernetes. That's really Kubernetes, Kustomize / Helm, EKS, various cloud hosting details (networking, etc.), Terraform and ton of super useful commands / context. Details you for sure want recorded for later. For this type of info I've been building up a knowledge base with https://obsidian.md/. It's really nice and I highly recommend it. It's been working well for keeping things reasonably categorized without wasting a lot of time on the details around keeping links and tags up to date. It also has Vim mode that's good enough where day to day writing feels natural.

#Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1454 social mentions

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Syncthing

I use Obsidian[1] pointing at a local directory of markdown files which is also synced across my devices via Syncthing[2]. Works flawlessly across my various Android/Fedora/Windows/etc devices. Cost: $0.0/year. I don't really use any Obsidian plugins. Obsidian has good navigation, search, and markdown processing (e.g. LaTeX, code syntax highlighting). It's just as easy as opening a new file in $EDITOR, except its markdown & synced across all my devices. [1] - https://obsidian.md/ [2] - https://syncthing.net/.

#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #File Sharing And Backup 828 social mentions

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Productivity Power Tools

The easiest way to incorporate this into a typical developer's workflow is using the vscode-journal plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pajoma.vscode-journal How it works:.

#Regular Expressions #Programming Tools #Development 360 social mentions

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Jrnl.sh

a few months ago, some folks on HN pointed me at https://jrnl.sh/en/stable/.

#Personal Notes #Terminal Tools #Note Taking 16 social mentions