I’m looking for a knowledge management system, or at least I think I am. Scrolling around in a notepad ++ of more than 300k lines gets to be a chore. Yeah, I document just about everything I do. They say that we never really forget anything, and that it’s our faulty recall system. Well, my recall system is shit. While Notepad++ does allow searching, I guess I’m looking for something a bit more elegant.
I’m looking for something I can dump my notes into a database and be able to search them for a particular command or phrase. I do use ByteStash for all my compose files, but ByteStash doesn’t let me search for commands, or command strings like I keep in my notes, or at least I haven’t been able to get ByteStash to do that. It’s pretty jammy for compose files tho.
Am I asking for too much? Perhaps someone uses something like this for their notes and such or even something entirely different for notes and documentation.
Kind Regards
Obsidian is a way you could do this sort of thing. Uses markdown language to generate new pages and articles. Comparable to a much lighter weight OneNote with extensibility. Introduced by a GenX to me to my pleasant surprise.
Personally free, not open source, can be integrated into git easily. Probably some legwork to transition your existing notes in but likely a improvement over notepad++. Besides the executable the storage of notes is all plaintext with markdown language.
So far, I really like how Obsidian searches and gives you a list in the left hand side, and highlights the chosen result. That’s very nice. I haven’t settled on Obsidian yet. Still need to try out the rest of the recommendations from the kind folks here, however it’s definitely in the running.
Thanks