Collection of "Today I Learned" notes

Hey, I&#x27;m Josh, the creator of this TIL repo. I&#x27;ve started it back in 2015 and still contribute to it a couple times a week. I reference TILs all the time to remember how to do something. It has been a great practice and I&#x27;d recommend to anyone to maintain their own TIL repo.<p>AMA!

Originally posted as Show HN a whooping 7.5 years ago with 150 comments: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11068902">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11068902</a>

I do something similar, but I have one file technotes.md open all the time and just append snippets&#x2F;commands&#x2F;URL&#x27;s&#x2F;TIL&#x27;s to the bottom with a date stamp and a hopefully findable comment.<p>Some notes are referenced constantly, and some I&#x27;ve probably never looked at again. The interesting thing is it&#x27;s hard to predict when adding which one it will be...

Just a few days ago added a &quot;notes&quot; page to my personal website on the same vein<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marcospereira.me&#x2F;notes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marcospereira.me&#x2F;notes&#x2F;</a>

I like how this is hosted on GitHub and is largely free to host and decentralised via Git. I recommend just using README.md for your notes as a low tech solution.<p>I also host my &quot;Learning in Public&quot; on GitHub, my blog, my notes my journal as README.md files, my code is all on GitHub . I&#x27;ve been doing it since 2013.<p>I like it being on GitHub because when I&#x27;m on a desktop computer, I can clone the git repository and edit locally, when I&#x27;m on a nondevelopment machine or Android phone I can edit on the GitHub website through the web editor.

From the author&#x27;s own share just a few years ago (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25781851">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25781851</a>), some of the motivation and thinking behind this repo:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;jbranchaud&#x2F;how-i-built-a-learning-machine-45k9" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.to&#x2F;jbranchaud&#x2F;how-i-built-a-learning-machine-45k...</a>

This is awesome. I want to do something in a much smaller scale -- “Life Lessons Learned” (Taking Notes Now).<p>Linked from the article in the post to his inspiration, let me to learnt today that I can batch-rename files in macOS natively - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techjunkie.com&#x2F;batch-rename-files-os-x-yosemite&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techjunkie.com&#x2F;batch-rename-files-os-x-yosemite&#x2F;</a>

Neat. From that list I learned that CTRL-Down on a Mac shows all windows of the current app. And I tried CTRL-F3 and that works too, and it&#x27;s easier for me to remember.

I got inspired by Josh and Khoa Pham (@onmyway133) and create a similar TIL notes vault a while ago. [1]<p>I love the idea of using GitHub Issues to create and share notes that I found each every morning, I hope that people find it useful.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vinhnx&#x2F;notes">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vinhnx&#x2F;notes</a>

I want to use Github to collect information like this, except about kitten issues, causes, and solutions. My focus is creating the tools to improve the state of kitten care and rescue, systematically and systemically. GitHub has many powerful features for an interactive project like mine.<p>However, I&#x27;ve never used GitHub before. Help?

This inspired simonw&#x27;s (among other things, the creator of the `llm` CLI tool) TIL, so I&#x27;d wager we&#x27;ll be seeing him in this thread soon. Until then, here the link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;til.simonwillison.net&#x2F;</a>

For a little while back 10 or 20 years ago, there was a tiny effort to start using the phrase &quot;commonplace book&quot; again for digital notes. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Commonplace_book" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Commonplace_book</a><p>This reminds me of one, but with an obvious IT overtone.<p>I dont want to criticize someone else&#x27;s personal notes, but I wouldn&#x27;t call it &quot;SSH into a docker container&quot; other than as a metaphor; but it&#x27;s too close to the process for the metaphor to stand. SSH has nothing to do with it.

When I make notes they are very self-centered (bespoke). So it’s amazing that this is generally useful enough to have this many GH stars.

Wow, didn&#x27;t expect there to be so many notes.

this is something nice. thanks for sharing.

What a great idea!