On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 12:41, o1bigtenor via talk <[email protected]> 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 means that I > all too often > tend to redo things - - - sometimes to improvement but sometimes I > don't know where > the previous work is so I'm looking or I'm redoing. > > So I'm looking at collecting things like contact information (and > their value/area etc etc), > project ideas, info sources, project planning, project design > parameters, project > components all of which hopefully results in some in the end. > > Have been trying to use taskwarrior and its a decent reminder system but the > storage of all the other 'stuff' isn't there. Been trying to just save > things into a folder > (that's not so useful when information is applicable to multiple projects). > > Has anyone found a 'reasonable' system that would effect this less than simple > 'idea'?
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 store my vimwiki in git, which allows me to sync it across all those machines while managing potential data collisions. I use a number of Vim plugins, but vimwiki is probably the one I use the most ... unless you count gitgutter. :-) If you're not a Vim user, I imagine there's an equivalent for Emacs. If not Emacs, there are many, many personal wikis. I've used and liked the JavaScript-and-browser-based Tiddlywiki (although I haven't touched it in years, so not sure of its current status - https://tiddlywiki.com/ ). It had the interesting property of all being stored entirely in one file, but easily searchable and displaying in bite-sized chunks as if it were many wiki pages. Using a wiki and its associated mark-up language and commands takes some time to adjust to, but it sounds like a good way to address the problem you're outlining so it would probably be worth it? And while git is annoying, it's a great way to sync data across machines without data collisions. I hope this helps. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
