Gregory's Server@bouncepaw Just saw this. What did you think of the recent https://borretti.me/article/unbundling-tools-for-thought?
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 @bouncepaw @akkartik personally, I have a folder of plaintext files (in reality, a folder in apple notes) where I just write the date and time, and dump what’s on my mind. i don’t force myself to do it every day, but i usually remember to keep it updated with cyclical bouts of intensity. including the time before this with paper journals, I have about six years of “diary” entries, which has been enormously helpful in gaining self-perspective over time.  @akkartik This is a very good article. Saved it to MervNews as well: https://merv.news/post/111 The author spent a big portion of their life building a universal information keeping system, and then understood it's not really worth it. I understood that 1.5 years ago, lucky me.  @bouncepaw I couldn't relate to it at all, but it seemed like you might 😄 I think the lesson from the author's experience is not that building your own wiki engine is a waste. The lesson is that it's counterproductive to build infrastructure far in advance of need. Search is easy at any sort of personal scale. I generate ~1MB/yr of plain text, and grep works just fine over 20 such years. If some organization seems onerous, I stop organizing. But I keep writing. Nice list of use cases, though. @akkartik yeah, they said well: > But in a personal database it makes a lot more sense that links should follow usage: they should be a crystallization of the trails you’ve followed, rather than an a-priori structure that you impose before usage.) Structures fail. |
@akkartik Reading it now.
> Tools for thought promise to let you centralize and hyperlink all your data.
Oh yeah, they do! And they often fail to do. Mycorrhiza works bad for keeping link collections. I have a big link collection in a couple of Mycorrhizae.
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