Comment by mark_l_watson
3 years ago
Off topic, but I wish that I had all my time back that was spent on my personal knowledge bases. The worse was spend 3 months of free time writing a little Evernote clone in Clojure, ClojureScrips, and a Firefox plugin. When it was done, I used it for a few months and then shelved it.
For one job, where I managed a few deep learning engineers, I had my work life, including evaluations and promotion materials in EMacs and orgmode. When I left, no one wanted those files because, I think, no one wanted to learn orgmode.
If you like Google, then their Keep notes are pretty good. I am mostly on Apple so I bought an app to export Apple Notes to pdf files automatically for backups, and just use notes. On Linux, I keep a tab open to iCloud.com
I find theres two groups of people within the "PKM space", those who love tinkering with it and therefore do so all the time, and those who absolutely despise it and yet are compelled to try to work it out. It sounds like you fall into that second group, I certainly do.
Strangely, I've never had a problem with it at work. Right now I use boostnote, but I could use pretty much anything else with a search box, however I think the reason there is that I make notes of solutions. If I ever run into the same problem again, I can search that problem and find a solution.
At home meanwhile, I take notes about ideas. Obviously ideas (at least not in my case) aren't triggered by a problem, so theres never a need to search for them unless I force myself to, and yet theres much more of a desire not to forget them.
Add to that the desire to have a "system" thats simple and reliant on no proprietary software features and low maintenance, ect... as well as all the possibilities that present themselves (each with their own flaws) and I end up in this terrible loop of perfecting a system I don't particularly want to perfect.
I'm guilty of the same thing. Especially between jobs I do an incredible amount of tinkering heheh.
My worst such shelved toy turned an org-mode file in your project repo into Kanban board, locally editable in the browser using a websocket to running Emacs server. Spent weeks getting it to sort of work. Never used it once
> My worst such shelved toy turned an org-mode file in your project repo into Kanban board, locally editable in the browser using a websocket to running Emacs server. Spent weeks getting it to sort of work.
This sounds interesting. Have you posted the source/repository for this somewhere?
Yah here ya go: https://github.com/joseph8th/oporg
What is the name of the app you are using for pdf export?