Regards,
Srijith K. Nair
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020, at 7:22 PM, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:35:27PM +0100, Srijith Nair wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to pick your brains on how you organise and retrieve
> > information that you read in books (physical or ebook) and long-form
> > articles online.
> >
> [...]
> > I was wondering what you have found useful in solving similar
> > problems on your end.
> >
> > As I love to hack code, I have been working on a solution for the
> > last few weeks but it is far from perfect or complete. Before I go
> > further down this rabbit hole, I thought it makes sense to try and
> > understand if there are existing solutions out there that works for
> > you?
>
> For stuff read online I mostly use org-mode, a special mode for notes
> taking, information organising etc in Emacs editor. I repurposed it
> into my personal wiki. It now exceeds thirty megabytes, so I had to
> increase Emacs's default max file size more than once. And editor with
> such biggie gets a bit slow sometimes. I put there all kinds of
> bookmarks, things to be read later, summaries of shopping lists and
> wish lists, extensive quotations and so on. Searching can be slow, too
> (big file, eh),
> [..]
> Having it all in simple text file has obvious benefits, at least to
> me. This kind of files can be read on most operating systems in use
> today and in foreseeable future. If necessary, it can be edited with
> most primitive text editors out there, too. So, I consider it to last
> long enough to be useful without having to hop tools and versions.
I agree, text has its simplicity going for it. The whole process reminds me of
http://plain-text.co/
Thanks,
Srijith
> And I would rather tug a computer with me than rely important stuff to
> online services. YMMV. (please note, cell phone is not considered a
> computer in this context, it is part of online system and thus
> unreliable).
>
> Few years ago I have also started to employ paper notes for various
> things, after some decades of relying mostly on computer based
> means. As it sometimes happens, as a teen I (re)invented the thing
> called "commonplace book" or "zibaldone". Since I had no idea such
> thing has this name, I named it with my own neologism in Polish. Then,
> many years later, I have learned about zibaldones.
>
> It seems that lots of people were writing their zibaldones during last
> five hundred years or so (at least in Europe). I guess it would be
> hard to invent something better.
>
> BTW, is there (or was there) a similar concept in other
> cultures/civilisations? I mean, a kind of personal encyclopaedia,
> collected from scraps of knowledge. In Japan, they have hobonichi, but
> as I understand it, it is more like daily planner and diary.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Tomasz Rola
>
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