@akkartik This is a very good article. Saved it to...

@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.

Like 28 Dec 2022 at 23:01 | Open on merveilles.town

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Kartik Agaram

@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.

28 Dec 2022 at 23:22 | Open on merveilles.town

bouncepaw 🍄

@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.

28 Dec 2022 at 23:23 | Open on merveilles.town