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Comment by sunshine-o

Looks cool, but as I have been on this knowledge management / productivity journey like everybody. Here are my findings:

If you are reasonably comfortable with computers / Unix.

- You need to first rely on a directory structures, filenames, plaintext, lists and maybe markdown. Stick with a "File over app", Unix approach.

- Try to sort things with universal concepts: locations, things, people, events, metrics, howtos. A bit like the 5Ws approach.

- Leverage good Unix tools: unix commands, make/justfiles, (rip)grep, git, fzf, etc.

- Do not try to solve the problem through the Web. Because you will end up trying to solve web problems instead of basic knowledge management and productivity issues.

- The smartphone/touchscreen is a major problem, but as with the Web do not try to solve it. Use your file manager or even fzf in termux can be adapted to be reasonably usable on a touchscreen.

Something I have been wondering about is the "backlink" feature. It would be cool to link items/notes together through references. What I would be looking for is a Unix tools that can scan my text files for references to other files in the hierarchy.

parent sunshine-o 1 year ago

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