Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:14 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > On 2020-12-14 1:24 p.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > > > Almost wet myself when he started moaning about Fraktur - - - - > > And by that, I meant Sütterlinschrift — I couldn't remember the name, > and now the more I think a

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On 2020-12-14 1:24 p.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: Almost wet myself when he started moaning about Fraktur - - - - And by that, I meant Sütterlinschrift — I couldn't remember the name, and now the more I think about it, it's a Kurrent variant, not Fraktur. Though talking of Fraktur: Tesse

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 9:42 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > You might find Stewart's GTALUG talk from three years ago useful. > "A Bit More Than Mostly Searchable: Scanned Paper You Can Find" > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list https:/

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

You might find Stewart's GTALUG talk from three years ago useful. "A Bit More Than Mostly Searchable: Scanned Paper You Can Find" --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 5:11 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > A quarter century ago, I heard of "Lifestreams" as the future of this. > It seems to be pretty dead, but not a terrible idea. > > > Gelernter (co-inventor?) is pretty inte

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

A quarter century ago, I heard of "Lifestreams" as the future of this. It seems to be pretty dead, but not a terrible idea. Gelernter (co-inventor?) is pretty interesting. - victim of Unibomber - weirdly kind of right-wing - inventor of "Lind

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 3:23 PM D. Joe via talk wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:23:55PM -0500, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > > If you're not a Vim user, I imagine there's an equivalent for Emacs. > > The 800# gorilla of emacs organizational tools seems to be org-mode. > > How that compares w

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 5:11 PM William Park via talk wrote: > > I have same problem as you. VimWiki, DocuWiki... My eyes hurt. > > Sometimes, I'm the one creating the content. So, I'll accept the hassle > of typing associated markups. > > Sometimes, others created the files, doc, exls, txt, jpg

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:23:55PM -0500, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > If you're not a Vim user, I imagine there's an equivalent for Emacs. The 800# gorilla of emacs organizational tools seems to be org-mode. How that compares with vimwiki or anything else discussed so far in this thread, I'm no

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

I have same problem as you. VimWiki, DocuWiki... My eyes hurt. Sometimes, I'm the one creating the content. So, I'll accept the hassle of typing associated markups. Sometimes, others created the files, doc, exls, txt, jpg, mov, etc. Eg. Sequence of screenshots on how to install something, nice

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:14 PM Michael Galea via talk wrote: > > On 09/12/2020 13.42, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > On 2020-12-08 12:40 p.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > >> > >> Has anyone found a 'reasonable' system that would effect this less > >> than simple > >> 'idea'? > > > > "Reas

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On 09/12/2020 13.42, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: On 2020-12-08 12:40 p.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: Has anyone found a 'reasonable' system that would effect this less than simple 'idea'? "Reasonable" is quite subjective. What's reasonable for me might be downright paltry for other

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 12:42 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote: > > On 2020-12-08 12:40 p.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > > > Has anyone found a 'reasonable' system that would effect this less than > > simple > > 'idea'? > > "Reasonable" is quite subjective. What's reasonable for me might b

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On 2020-12-08 12:40 p.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote: Has anyone found a 'reasonable' system that would effect this less than simple 'idea'? "Reasonable" is quite subjective. What's reasonable for me might be downright paltry for other people. Things I've found out: * indexing written notes

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Wed, 2020/12/09 06:58:14AM -0600, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: | I want to thank both of you for your ideas. It seems something like one | of these could work but I'm not sure about the connecting files back into | either of these. At least I can't see an easy way of doing such. In dokuwiki, as

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

I have no solution to propose, but it looks like you need a graph database, vs a more traditional relational database. Independent tools used in different orders and situations. There are several versions of graph databases, but as I have no need I've not researched them. Graph databases have node

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 8:54 PM Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > > On 2020-12-08 5:23 p.m., Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > If you're a Vim user, I highly recommend vimwiki: > > https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki . I live and die by NeoVim, and > > spend every day with multiple sessions open across mu

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On 2020-12-08 5:23 p.m., Giles Orr via talk wrote: If you're a Vim user, I highly recommend vimwiki: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki . I live and die by NeoVim, and spend every day with multiple sessions open across multiple machines. I'll look up the information vimwiki out of curiousity.

Re: [GTALUG] information storage ideas

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 12:41, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > I tend to work on quite a number of different things if not at the > same time then in > quite short order. So far most projects will get some notes or phone > call references > or other information jotted down on paper. Over time this mea

[GTALUG] information storage ideas

Greetings I tend to work on quite a number of different things if not at the same time then in quite short order. So far most projects will get some notes or phone call references or other information jotted down on paper. Over time this means that I all too often tend to redo things - - - someti