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

  • Aufgehtsabgehts@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    There is always emacs with org-roam.

    Org-roam is kind of a wiki, you write your notes with all the formatting power of an org-file and you can link to other notes you have written.

    Of course everything is searchable, with tags, without tags, however you want.

    BUT: it takes time to get used to the shortcuts, and it takes a lot of time to configure everything how you like it.

    The result is worth it.

    Edit: I use Nextcloud to sync my notes accross my devices. On the smartphone there seems to be the App OrgNote available, but I haven’t checked it out, as I don’t use my smartphone that much.

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      4 months ago

      I downloaded the windows version of emacs and I’ll give it a go. I figured, I could test it out locally and if it checks out, I could move it to the server. It’s easier to uninstall from windows as I just fire up Revo and let it eat. Thanks for the suggestion.