[GTALUG] information storage ideas

[William Park]

I have same problem as you.  VimWiki, DocuWiki... My eyes hurt.

Sometimes, I'm the one creating the content.  So, I'll accept the hassle
of typing associated markups.

Sometimes, others created the files, doc, exls, txt, jpg, mov, etc.  Eg.
Sequence of screenshots on how to install something, nicely annotated
and arrowed.  So, I just want to say, "To install this, follow <step 1>,
<step 2>, ..." where steps are links to files I got.  Then, I should be
able to add my own content, eg. "in step 2, make sure to check for ...".

Sometimes, it's full document.  Other times, it's just short snippet,
screenshot trimmed down, cut/paste, etc.

So, I'm looking for sort of file manager, 
    - where I can add/delete text, links, files, not just on the local
      filesystem, but on the app itself.
    - where I can organize/reorganize orders or structures..
    - etc.
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William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>

On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 06:58:14AM -0600, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 8:54 PM Kevin Cozens via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 2020-12-08 5:23 p.m., Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> > > If you're a Vim user, I highly recommend vimwiki:
> > > https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki .  I live and die by NeoVim, and
> > > spend every day with multiple sessions open across multiple machines.
> >
> > I'll look up the information vimwiki out of curiousity. The wiki I have been
> > using to keep various notes about things is dokuwiki. It is more than good
> > enough for my uses and it doesn't require use of a database so it is easy to
> > setup, and light on use of system resources.
> 
> Have looked at both vimwiki and docuwiki but am not sure about jumping on
> either band wagon.
> 
> My projects are not just written material - - - a project may include CADD,
> spreadsheets, jpgs, text, pdfs, rarely videos and maybe even some other
> information types that I'm forgetting at the moment.
> 
> I don't think that I'm expecting to save everything so its all totally visible
> in whatever 'info system' I decide to use but would want to have some way
> of connecting the location of whatever documents back into that system.
> 
> I want to thank both of you for your ideas. It seems something like one
> of these could work but I'm not sure about the connecting files back into
> either of these. At least I can't see an easy way of doing such.