Maha-pudma

First link is this thread though so probably worth a better answer.

I like hierarchical note taking. I use Zim-wiki which is plain text and actually working with folders and text files. I wonder how this compares, I don't use vscode though.

Libre office Calc, and pivot tables.

I have set everything up so I can just copy and paste my banks export straight into a sheet, pivot tables on the next sheet.

>As far as tracking and ads... we’re all going to lose that battle fairly soon. The same tech we all praise as good for privacy is also great for data collection and advertising.

Can you elaborate on this? I'd be interested to know more about how this could happen.

Thanks. I'm in the process of reading a JavaScript book: https://eloquentjavascript.net/

I think I need to look at event handling and like you say network requests. I'm trying to capture JSON responses that are loaded when you scroll down a page. I intend to process these further but have no idea how to capture them in the first place. I can see them in the network tab and manually copy them and process them like that. I'm able to copy as fetch, run the request again, and display the JSON in the web console, but I'm a complete beginner at this sort of thing.

I'm paying £9 for 30GB but that also includes unlimited minutes and texts. So I'm pretty near the lowest in my country, UK. My only question is, who in their right mind is paying the highest?! I mean £52… WFT.

I've been using vendor selected software repositories since before apple called them an app store and started charging everyone to use theirs. Linux has had them for years and years.

That's true, I think they started looking at creating one but it never got off the ground. From my personal perspective I don't, and can't (I've tried), take decent notes on mobile. On the move I just use a jotter it's quicker and move flexible.

Exercise, and children. I also time my working day so when the times up that's me done for the day.

I like to take notes on paper however my notes are always messy. I'm not able to take notes on anything without having to go back and reorganise them, make sense of them, and add to them. Paper and pen (pencil in my case) are limited in this respect. I'd love to be able to take notes perfectly the first time but find I'll take notes and rewrite them in text (currently zim-wiki) which for me reinforces them in my mind. I can then add/change them when needed. My notes evolve over time, which means paper notes would have to be rewritten continuously with the same information with additions/deletions/expansions/etc. This is much easier electronically, especially when you version your notes (I do this with fossil in zim-wiki).

I find also pen and paper to be limited for programming notes.

I use zim-wiki for my notes. Open-source and stores notes in text organised by folders. I like markdown but actually prefer the simple wiki syntax it uses.

If they need to create a PDF I use pandoc and if I need to move a table to a spreadsheet I just copy the text and use the text to columns from delimiter feature. Not sure if this help you or not.

Never heard of this before. Sounds like Zim-wiki, which is what I use. Does pretty much everything this can do plus is completely free.

This happened to me to. It now is not connected to the internet and never will be again. It's also the crappest TV I've ever owned. My old dumb TV is better.

What happens to people like me, no Google search, no Facebook, no amp, etc if this came about?

I hope apple lose the lawsuit. It's about time their monopoly was broken.No different from what Microsoft did in the passed and Google are doing now.

Can I take in from the answers here that no one uses anaconda?

I'm only a beginner and that is what I was told to use. It has environments too. Should I be using something else?

The privacy implications for this actually horrifies me.

You have to upload an image of yourself to them to opt-out, hhmmm.

I wonder if this will be another arms race like adblocking now. The facial recognition companies find a work around to this and researchers find another work around, ad infinitum.

Meanwhile I have the best solution to thwart all facial recognition, don't upload you photos in the first place.

The 2k exercise bike aside, this is a brilliant article. I love reading stuff like this and wish I had the smarts/knowledge to do this sort of thing.

Fair play to the guy for creating pinboard, I don't use it, but assume since it's a subscription service he/the site isn't selling your data for advertising. I just can't see myself needing it, much as I like discovering new stuff (one of the reasons I'm on HN), I won't pay to store bookmarks.

I used to use stumbleupon a lot. I had an xmarks account for bookmark syncing before that went paid for. I now just use Firefox's built in syncing service.

Having never seen the point of a social bookmarking service can someone tell me reasons why I should consider using something like this? What were the benefits over my private bookmarks. I obviously remember it back in the day but viewed it the same I do most social networks, with suspicion.

Already mentioned below but Zim-wiki [1].

Fast search, check. Visual linking of topics via Link Map plugin [2], check. Add images from paste, check. Links update if a topic is renamed /moved, check. Version control via Version Control plugin [3], check. Non-proprietry, check. Open-source, check.

Also back links too.

1. https://zim-wiki.org/index.html

2. https://zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins/Link_Map.html

3. https://zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins/Version_Control.html

Keepass vault on computer and copy on usb which wife is aware of. Master password with lawyer with instructions on where to find key file and how to use.

No third party to deal with.

The way Zim organises the notes really makes sense to me. I know you could do what Zim does manually and use built in Linux tools to accomplish most if not all its features but it's nice to have it all in one package.

I used both.

If I'm learning I will write notes with a pencil and paper (pencil over pen every time). This means I have to think more about what I'm writing and for me is more flexible. I use an A4 squared pad with an index at the front, each page is split similar to the Cornell note taking system which is good for summarising and adding tags for quickly finding information. My notes are scribbled and messy. I will then transcribe these onto a computer using text files and folders for structure. You can't beat text files. As a front end for this I use Zim Desktop Wiki. Cross platform, portable, and easy to use with a simple markup syntax. It offers many excellent features, including a journal, tasks, diagrams, spell checking, interlinking, back links, searching, tags, images, tables, version control, and many others. Drop the notes into Dropbox and you have syncing.

If the worse comes and Zim disappears it's all just text files and folders. Pandoc can convert Zim to markdown or whatever you like.

For other quick notes I use a reporters jotter. I will transcribe them onto the computer if they are important. But generally these notes are throw away.

I just use the text editor I've set to open with the Edit Source menu item to edit the raw markup. When I moved over to Zim I just used pandoc to convert my notes, it worked very well with only minor issues, I don't know if pandoc supports moinmoin. I can't comment on the web server. I don't use it sorry.

Zim Wiki[1] is amazing as a personal self-hosted wiki. Loads of good official plugins and unofficial. Everything stored as text and organised in folders I think similar to MoinMoin. Supports code highlighting, pasting images, tasks, journal, links (internal and external), back links, version control, etc. Just an all round brilliant piece of software.

1: https://zim-wiki.org/

Zim Wiki[1] is amazing as a personal wiki. Loads of good official plugins and unofficial. Everything stored as text and organised in folders. Supports code highlighting, pasting images, tasks, journal, links (internal and external), back links, version control, etc. Just an all round brilliant piece of software.

1: https://zim-wiki.org/

Is there a guide anywhere that goes through this sort of thing?