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Ask HN: How to organize personal knowledge?
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Posted by Paul Korm
Sep 9, 2018 at 11:01 AM
Very interesting thread, Andy. Thank you for posting it.
A lot to absorb.
I habitually organize work documents hierarchically with descriptive names. Very old school, but decades of work files and hundreds of GB of user data, I feel if I didn’t keep this then I’d really be lost. Search utilities such as Houdah Spot and FoxTrot help a lot.
On the other hand files like receipts and the like I just throw into a big DEVONthink pot since it takes a second or two to search for them with DEVONthink’s excellent search features.
Because I’m an incurable CRIMPer, I’ve kept extensive notes in many different apps over the years. Finding them is the challenge. I know of no utility that could, for example, search across Evernote, Bear, Tinderbox, etc., and find a phrase or concept. Same shortcoming on Windows.