What I don't understand, is how you can so meticulously keep notes about everything you learn? This is also my problem when I see the recent "hype" around Roam Research, Obsidian, Foam etc. I constantly come across and read stuff, in newspapers, on HN, on reddit, etc. How can you find the time to keep notes about this and keep it organized? And how do you make sure you aren't spending more time on organizing/formatting/maintaining your notes and making it look nice instead of actually reading doing productive stuff? (Honest questions, I'm interested in other peoples' approaches.)
Some months ago I started using mediawiki to keep a private knowledge base.<p>It's way smaller than the OP, but since I'm the only reader, I can allow my self to be either as detailed as I need or just have some quick notes and some link.<p>After moving together with my SO, she started creating pages too, and we often work together on page (it's a joy to save the recipes we like the most).<p>And I must say... It's a pleasure. As soon as I do something neat, I feel the urge to take a note bout it so that I don't have to google stuff again in the future.<p>When I wonder the details about that thing I did in the past... My wiki immediately helps me. It's really a joy.<p>And since we moved together in our own place, it kinda helps with the house too. We started collecting pdf manuals of all the appliances we bought, and by using PDF widgets I can get a quick view of the manual from my browser without downloading it.<p>All things about the building, city council, public administrations? We've got pages for that.<p>To-do lists? A wiki page is not the first thing one would think about, but as long as you're checking it out from time to time it works just fine.<p>Page trees? Just use sub-pages, maybe categories too.<p>The visual editor is a godsend.<p>Media shows nicely in pages (think of wikipedia).<p>So to sum up:<p>1. keep your own wiki, even a private one.<p>2. you don't necessarily need the "best" system, you need a system that works well on things you care about (I care for the documental management aspect of mediawiki and the easy/functional inclusion of various media -- i was initially tempted to just buy a confluence self-hosted license).
I have started keeping a similar wiki of things on onenote. What you've created is my platonic ideal.<p>This is easily up there with the most impressive things I have seen over the last year.<p>'Ideas as a graph' seems to be a notetaking setup that is slowly gaining traction. I can't wait for a killer app to come around that is built around this concept at its core.
Everything I know is personal. Most of it is not something I want to share, nor is it useful to anyone else.<p>I haven’t made a personal wiki before but I do keep a fair amount of personal notes (without any cross-referencing rigor).
I don't have anything like this and I think it's a bad idea to be keeping a wiki like that. The premise here is to accumulate knowledge for the sake of knowledge itself. In my experience this isn't productive, takes time, and is not going anywhere. There is a reason you forget things you read about - you don't really need them and your brain does you a favour by forgetting.<p>For me - a better alternative is to only seek and store knowledge about things you are currently working on, and organise it by project. And if you read something that is actionable - do it and forget about it. Ideas are also fine, but if you have more than 3 then it can be a sign of procrastination.
Everything you know? I was expecting a lot of useful insights or quick notes about a wide array of topics. Instead this is a collection of links to things to read.<p>You "know" all of these things?<p>This seems like the equivalent of someone publishing all of their browser bookmarks and labeling it as "everything I know".
I have done something similar to this. My first entry is from 11 years ago. One thing that bothers me is that over time links stop working. I wish I would have downloaded the content and stored a local cache. Not everything makes it to archive.org.
The title is ridiculous hyperbole. If the wiki is truly a list of everything the person knows, then the page contradicts itself: the person does not state that they know how to write, nor how to use dictation services, therefore they do not know how to do either, because the page lists everything they know. Therefore the page would not exist.<p>Instead, a more apt title would just be 'random technical knowledge I picked up over the years and kept notes on', which I'm sure many if not most of us do in some shape or form, and is not at all as notable as 'Everything I Know'.
I’m in the midst of something like this, but much simpler. I haven’t deployed it yet but the structure a flat directory of .md files. Some of the content is high quality, much are links or snippets from elsewhere. One rule is that I type everything out so that the knowledge does become mine in some way. If I don’t have the time that’s when I drop in a link.<p>For me it’s not a polished end product, just a place to help jog my memory when the time comes and maybe to put other people to if/when appropriate.<p>EDIT: using Hugo btw
This is very interesting, do you go through it every now and then to remove stale content and dead links?<p>If I did something like this I just know I'd get into the habit of adding everything I read vs adding things that actually help me achieve what I want to achieve.
Most technical topics don't have much of a chronological aspect. So a single contributor wiki makes a lot of sense for that sort of thing. It is really nice to be able to be able to improve something by just editing it.
Is this just like a limited Google? At what point does it make sense to just Google things?
I typically can find almost anything I need on Google.
I guess there's a benefit to curation which I use bookmarks for.
I've been doing something similar with google drive (been too lazy to choose a standard file format). Kudos on having the discipline to put some structure into it with markdown, add a frontend, and share it!
oooh, thank you for shouting out my Favorite Podcasts list! :)<p>this thing is super impressive, congrats on curating your brain and inspiring impostor syndrome on all your fellow gardeners haha
I find that weird/sad that you could sum up EVERYTHING you know in few GitHub pages. What about historic facts that you know or just place you visited? I not really critic of what is claim to know, but I think I just disagree with his interpretation of what knowledge is. Knowing how to read time his a knowledge why is it not part of the gitbook...?
I checked out an area I like (Neuroscience) and all I saw was a bunch of links. The author and I must have a very different notion of "knowing" something.