Searchable db/Knowledge Management Software [SOLVED - THANKS]
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LogSeq is nice.
For this who don't know, it's well designed, in that it doesn't add bloat and obfuscation like a DB would; it keeps everything in a filesystem structure in markdown files. What's really nice is that this makes it something you can use with a plain editor, or with the application, or with the app on mobile; the app(s) add a lot of convenience functionality to the basic storage design.
It's a well-thought-out system, and I appreciate how clean it is, and how independent of the application the data is. I haven't looked at the code base, but I have a lot of respect for the developer must based on the design & architecture decisions.
LoqSeq looks nice, but I do hate the part that everything is a bulletpoint
And that's their core feature !That's not futur proof IMO. If logSeq disappeared, your notes become useless :/. Or maybe I did misunderstood something on how it works?
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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.
Why note use something like Notesnook or Obsidian?
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There is always emacs with org-roam.
Org-roam is kind of a wiki, you write your notes with all the formatting power of an org-file and you can link to other notes you have written.
Of course everything is searchable, with tags, without tags, however you want.
BUT: it takes time to get used to the shortcuts, and it takes a lot of time to configure everything how you like it.
The result is worth it.
Edit: I use Nextcloud to sync my notes accross my devices. On the smartphone there seems to be the App OrgNote available, but I haven't checked it out, as I don't use my smartphone that much.
I downloaded the windows version of emacs and I'll give it a go. I figured, I could test it out locally and if it checks out, I could move it to the server. It's easier to uninstall from windows as I just fire up Revo and let it eat. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Look into obsidian, especially with some community plugins
I recently installed the "Dataview" plug-in, and it's amazing. You can create documents or sections by querying data from other documents, effectively using Obsidian as a database.
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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.
They've both been mentioned multiple times already, but I think you need to try out both Logseq and Obsidian and pick whichever you like better. They are both very similar, but take slightly different approaches. There are also plugins for each to make them behave more like the other.
I personally use Logseq because it's open source and I like the daily journal and outlining features. I used and enjoy obsidian, too, and it has plugins to improve journals and outlining.
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LoqSeq looks nice, but I do hate the part that everything is a bulletpoint
And that's their core feature !That's not futur proof IMO. If logSeq disappeared, your notes become useless :/. Or maybe I did misunderstood something on how it works?
LogSeq has other note types; it's just the default is bullets.
LogSeq is about as future proof as you can get. Notes are stored in a directory tree as markdown files.
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I recently installed the "Dataview" plug-in, and it's amazing. You can create documents or sections by querying data from other documents, effectively using Obsidian as a database.
That sounds very appealing. I'll check it out.
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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.
There are so many options. If you're looking for a free and open source wiki-style setup, a couple I haven't seen mentioned in the thread yet are Zim Desktop Wiki and Feather wiki (hmm looks like their web certificate is expired at the moment)
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They've both been mentioned multiple times already, but I think you need to try out both Logseq and Obsidian and pick whichever you like better. They are both very similar, but take slightly different approaches. There are also plugins for each to make them behave more like the other.
I personally use Logseq because it's open source and I like the daily journal and outlining features. I used and enjoy obsidian, too, and it has plugins to improve journals and outlining.
I cannot stand obsidian because seeing the empty giant box to fill just stresses me out.
So I use logseq instead. Outlining is way more enjoyable because of the bullet points.
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I recently installed the "Dataview" plug-in, and it's amazing. You can create documents or sections by querying data from other documents, effectively using Obsidian as a database.
Yes and there is a heatmap plugin that allows creating heatmaps from daily notes with tags.
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Yes and there is a heatmap plugin that allows creating heatmaps from daily notes with tags.
Cool! I'll give it a try!
It's heatmap-calendar right?
