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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by irmadlad@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm looking for a knowledge management system, or at least I think I am. Scrolling around in a notepad ++ of more than 300k lines gets to be a chore. Yeah, I document just about everything I do. They say that we never really forget anything, and that it's our faulty recall system. Well, my recall system is shit. While Notepad++ does allow searching, I guess I'm looking for something a bit more elegant.

I'm looking for something I can dump my notes into a database and be able to search them for a particular command or phrase. I do use ByteStash for all my compose files, but ByteStash doesn't let me search for commands, or command strings like I keep in my notes, or at least I haven't been able to get ByteStash to do that. It's pretty jammy for compose files tho.

Am I asking for too much? Perhaps someone uses something like this for their notes and such or even something entirely different for notes and documentation.

Kind Regards

ETA: Thank you all for your recommendations. I gave each a serious look. Some of the ones like emacs and logseq I downloaded the windows binary to give them a go. So, the winner is Obsidian. It just seems to mesh with my flow. I found a community plugin that encrypts my notes, and I really like that. I also like the fact that you can specify how long you want Obsidian to remember the encryption password, and then revert back to encrypted. Very handy option with the plugin.

Thanks again.

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[–] enemenemu@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nice collection.

Have you met logseq? Maybe using multiple files? folders?

[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LogSeq is nice.

For this who don't know, it's well designed, in that it doesn't add bloat and obfuscation like a DB would; it keeps everything in a filesystem structure in markdown files. What's really nice is that this makes it something you can use with a plain editor, or with the application, or with the app on mobile; the app(s) add a lot of convenience functionality to the basic storage design.

It's a well-thought-out system, and I appreciate how clean it is, and how independent of the application the data is. I haven't looked at the code base, but I have a lot of respect for the developer must based on the design & architecture decisions.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LoqSeq looks nice, but I do hate the part that everything is a bulletpoint :/ And that's their core feature !

That's not futur proof IMO. If logSeq disappeared, your notes become useless :/. Or maybe I did misunderstood something on how it works?

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

LogSeq has other note types; it's just the default is bullets.

LogSeq is about as future proof as you can get. Notes are stored in a directory tree as markdown files.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have not met logseq, tho I am currently reading up on it. There's apparently a docker container for it as well along with a plethora of plugins to extend it's functions. I'm down with trying it. I will read some more. Thanks very much for the recommendation.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Try it, it's good. There's a mobile app, for Android, at least. It's free; it only takes a little time investment, so low barrier for entry.