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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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[–] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a feeling you're looking for something different, but: mine is a big todo.txt document that I open with fzf. I just add lines to it and tack on @keywords.

If your needs are more hierarchical and structured, I'd still try to stick with a plain-text and fuzzy-search based solution, and split stuff up into different files.

IMHO, you're starting from a good place (plain text files). Maybe you just need a little tooling for searching and keyword filtering.