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 is hard: you have to manually add metadata to
find it again. The same goes for scanned photos. Digital photos are a
little better, as at least they have a capture date.
* distributing your ability to "find stuff" across several
computers/devices is hard. It will require work to upload it to one
central repository. This will have to become part of your routine if you
need to rely on it
* online tools don't necessarily stick. I used WorkFlowy (an online
outliner) for a while, and I still have a useful project database there,
but I keep forgetting about it. MindMup was quite cool too, until you
really needed to start paying for it to access basic features.
* for me - an untidy person - what works is
-- file dates ("I worked on this in September")
-- side associations ("I listened to the album by The ___ when I worked
on this, so it must've been around …")
-- saved shell histories (I'm not quite at the stage of aliasing cd to a
command that appends to a local history file, but I'm close - the number
of projects I've reconstructed through saved history is beyond countable)
-- the desktop's indexer (like Tracker, Spotlight, Windows Search). I
can't live without this. A system without this isn't one I'd choose to
use. Yes, they chew CPU and storage but they remember! everything! for! you!
Maybe my findings aren't worth much, though. I recently found two
independent reimplementations of exactly the same project roughly two
years apart on my system … as I was about to implement precisely the
same thing for the third time.
Stewart
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