[GTALUG] information storage ideas

[o1bigtenor]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:14 PM Michael Galea via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> On 09/12/2020 13.42, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> > On 2020-12-08 12:40 p.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> >>
> >> Has anyone found a 'reasonable' system that would effect this less
> >> than simple
> >> 'idea'?
> >
> > "Reasonable" is quite subjective. What's reasonable for me might be
> > downright paltry for other people.
> >
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>
> laughing, in .bashrc.. I have
> PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a ~/.bash_history"
> So I Save each command right after it has been executed, not at the end
> of the session.  This interleaves the history from multiple sessions and
> prevents loss in the event of crashes.
>
> >
> > -- the desktop's indexer (like Tracker, Spotlight, Windows Search). I
> > can't live without this. A system without this isn't one I'd choose to
> > use. Yes, they chew CPU and storage but they remember! everything! for!
> > you!
> >
> > Maybe my findings aren't worth much, though. I recently found two
> > independent reimplementations of exactly the same project roughly two
> > years apart on my system … as I was about to implement precisely the
> > same thing for the third time.
>
> For me, this translates into not writing code I have already written. To
> prevent this I:
> - record the locations where code Ive written resides and index it. I
> then use a search tool (a la grep) that searches the index.
> - wrote a curses based script that writes scripts based on checked
> selections of what code snippets and packaged libraries to include.
>
This is very much in the direction where I'm headed except your
goal is primarily involved with 'text'  - - - - yes its programming but
its still largely text (of a form anyway) where I need to add a lot
of other things.

Thanks for the idea though !!

Regards