I keep all my #notes in text files in a single directory (and use ag, grep and fd to search through them). I edit them with vim.
It’s not a GREAT experience, but all the note taking apps are terrible. Seeing how Evernote is deciding to destroy itself today makes me think that my approach to note-taking maybe isn’t that terrible.
@whynothugo I often think that Evernote et al. are just GUIs to what you're doing. I'm new to #emacs and #orgmode and that's the best halfway house I've experienced so far. If you're team #vim it's easy to use 'your' keybinds in the emacs environment. I'm not trying to convince you to come over to The Dark Side (hahaha!) of emacs, BTW.
Did you know that the original wiki represents roughly 120MB of data if you convert it to a flat text file? That represents 30 years of knowledge building, so pretty darn good.
If you use WikiText (or CamelCase) then you don't need any fancy tools. #vim, #emacs, or heck #nano and #ed the #StandardEditor are perfectly sufficient.
i'm typing on a 2006 Thinkpad T60p so i know exactly of what you speak
this computer works at speeds no different that you would notice compared to any bought in last 2 years until you go onto the web where the JS choked corporate web sites built with crap JS frameworks like react bring it to it's knees
however qutebrowser + downloading media content with yt-dlp which then gets played on mpv makes it usable again
it's not like that, 10 years ago good web designers were rare & expensive - they know html & css backwards & the workarounds that were needed as html & css grew - the likes of react.js were designed in theory to make it easier but the simplicity of usability came at a huge cost in the complexity & volume of the code generated needed to replace basic html/css functionality built into browsers over the years
in the #emacs community more & more emacsen are dropping the likes of wordpress to self host plain html static websites they can design from #OrgMode
I just realized a lot of my favorite software is hard to describe. #orgmode: an outliner, but also a highly-integrated task manager and markup language. #NNCP, an asynchronous message passer -- and thing that can use USB drives as a network. #gitannex, a file location tracker and syncer that does a ton. #dar, an improvement on tar, that can be FUSE-mounted, sliced and diced, compressed and encrypted in different ways. #emacs, a live-modifiable mail reader & enhanced vim (with evil-mode) 🙂
I know this may be a dumb question, but: are there any guides about using #orgmode? Not about how to use, they key bindings but rather how to it effectively - like how big files are best and so on. I know this should come from experience, but since I'm only 6 months in #emacs, having some inherited knowledge would be very useful!
What's best is very personal. For me big files were not best. I really like this pattern of daily files. My most often used set of daily files is my work log. I try to keep a note (and clock time) for each thing I do through the day. Notes might stay there, or be linked to from there if they are voluminous
@dekkzz76 Everything. I rely on #orgmode all day long, and I just can't cope with my huge list of tasks unless I color-code projects, priorities, contexts, etc. It helps me to grasp the bigger picture. And yes, definitely for syntax highlighting too.