[GTALUG] information storage ideas

[o1bigtenor]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 3:23 PM D. Joe via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:23:55PM -0500, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
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> > If you're not a Vim user, I imagine there's an equivalent for Emacs.
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> The 800# gorilla of emacs organizational tools seems to be org-mode.
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> How that compares with vimwiki or anything else discussed so far in this thread, I'm not certain. Of the stuff mentioned, it certainly doesn't incorporate directly files of myriad filetypes, though emacs can be used to navigate amongst files in a directory. As with most of this, it depends on how deeply you invest in learning the tools and matching up its affordances with your needs and preferences. I mostly use org-mode for editing tables and spreadsheets, but I know people use it for much more than that, including calendar management, time tracking, reminders, to-do lists, and so on.

A friend, now deceased, was a severe emacs aficionado - - - - he said
that most anything can be done in emacs but suggested that I stay
clear - - - - grin.
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> Another tool for organizing in-the-large a set of files that, collectively, are  too big to add and manage within a git repo directly is git-annex. The general idea, so far as I understand it, is to manage a collection of symlinks to files on the front end, while dialing in the right mix between redundancy (having all the files on all the sites) and sparseness (having only the files required on any given site). I've only dabbled in using this one--I began learning git so that I could use git-annex. I use the heck out of git now but never got back around to git-annex, though it remains on my "one of these days" queue.

Interesting - - - - time for some more looking!
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> My current practice is to keep a series of directories on topics, with one main metafile in each directory mostly plain text with some light Markdown. In the file I try to make note of what I'm doing in the directory over time. I might, for instance, paste the URL through which I downloaded a PDF stored elsewhere in the directory, for instance. I'll track this metafile, and other files in the directory as applicable, as a git repository. In the case of a downloaded PDF, I'd probably exclude it from the repo via a line in ./.gitignore
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> This is an old, complex problem with at least as many answers as their are people searching for solutions:

It would seem that most of the solutions available are somewhat limiting.
To bad that there wasn't one that really had almost no limits and that
one could use that environment as one wished.
Oh well - - - here's hoping!
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book
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I do believe that you've found the closest solution yet! (Beeg grin!)
Except I'm trying to keep things on the puter cause its easier to
search there - - - - even if not really easy!

Thanks for the ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Regards