On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 02:59:17PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 14.08.18 06:44, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 08/14/2018 01:43 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > The whole thing is just a plain text file, edited and read with Vim, > > > using multi-level folding, so it all presents as a one-page TOC. My > > > version is probably of limited use to anyone else, as it e.g. only deals > > > with dpkg and apt-get in the current context. All else is completely > > > unknown. > > > > > > Now that we have google, I must admit that there's an alternative, but > > > it won't tell you whether that's what you did last time, giving the > > > particular outcome which you prefer, or confidence of the same result. > > > > > > > I'm working on it :} Someone pointed me to CherryTree. I have much > > information in saved emails. > > Please don't tell anyone, but I too have quite a number of list posts > flagged in mutt for adding to the notes - just not done yet. While > deleting 95% of posts and flagging 1% does distill the local archive > to a useful essence, it's still not as accessible as structured notes, > where related information is colocated, mixed with personal experience.
Can't beat personal experience as the ultimate memory jog… > The optimal balance between doing and documenting depends significantly > on how good the wetware memory still is, but the act of documenting can > significantly improve that memory. (I have forgotten the numbers put > forward, at a seminar decades ago, for the percentage retention of what we: > hear, read, write, carry out in practice, but the difference is marked.) Document, condense, condense, then document. Man when I was younger, I condensed my notes so much I not only -read- between the lines, I -wrote- between the lines!
