After years of working... how do you keep track of your small tips and manuals of things you already done?
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Don't care! I want my groupies! :laugh:
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I made up an Access DB for holding that type of information. Works nice for my needs, but would have to rework the design a bit to hold the filename for any local PDFs, since that hasn't been a consideration till now.
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I love OneNote to death - but the not the free one. For years I have been trying to get a decent cataloguing system for my thousands of classical CDs, but nothing hit the spot, until I bit the bullet and scanned all the boxes back and front and then did an 'OCR all image text' on them. Now I can search and pull any CD* I want as the image name is the drawer, rack and position in the rack. *I really should amend that to say 'any CD that I can still remember I've got'. :-O :laugh:
The free versions not too bad. I've not completely converted to it yet but will eventually. If they sold OneNote separately, and not subscription I would probably purchase it.
The less you need, the more you have. Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally. JaxCoder.com
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I used to store them as text files in a folder but recently I have been converting them to Joplin[^] just because it integrates with Nextcloud (I have my own private server). They are still text but are in markdown format so I can format the text and add (external) images and other documents. Also, Joplin has a web clipper (at least for firefox) which is very handy.
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I always used to keep a folder of tips as text files, and update them as needed - but have you considered posting them as Tips here? I have several of my text files as tips, and they are pretty easy for me to find, and who knows? Someone else might benefit as well. :-D
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OriginalGriff wrote:
but have you considered posting them as Tips here
I started doing that when it first became available but my one - two liners were criticized as being too small/simplistic, T&T seems to have devolved into a mini article suppository.
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I keep a separate folder for every distinct piece of work I do. The folder is usually named with the reference number/string of the piece of work and a short description. In the folder goes any useful information and there is also present a notes.txt file holding information as I am doing the work. I then make extensive use of Agent Ransack on these folders to find information(Agent Ransack is the bees knees for searching for and within files). I also have a massive sql.txt file that holds every sql single query I have every found to be useful(and comes in handy a lot). I am not keen relying on OneNote or any online/database solution as plain text files do not rely on an underlying piece of software that may become superseded or break. I did once, in a previous job, write an Access DB app to hold this information and make it easy to search and categorise but I now prefer plain text files.
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― Christopher Hitchens
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
A Wiki is the way to do it. The key parts of our are: 1) A daily diary. 2) A page for each project (currently '1047'). 3) A 'HowTo' section. 4) A page for each application or language we use, e.g. Python, git etc.
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
Have you considered setting up a Nextcloud[^] server? I have one running in a VM that spends its time indexing my photos and sharing albums with the family. There is a fulltext search add-on which should do just the job. No need to move your files from the NAS into NextCloud, you can add drives and folders as "external" sources. Note that NextCloud has its own "Notes" add-on and also a very handy browser bookmark manager.
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I love OneNote to death - but the not the free one. For years I have been trying to get a decent cataloguing system for my thousands of classical CDs, but nothing hit the spot, until I bit the bullet and scanned all the boxes back and front and then did an 'OCR all image text' on them. Now I can search and pull any CD* I want as the image name is the drawer, rack and position in the rack. *I really should amend that to say 'any CD that I can still remember I've got'. :-O :laugh:
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I've created a .NET Core Web site which I host locally on a Linux box, it's massively over engineered ( largely because I'm semi retired) having a Postgresql backend accessed via an API. It started off life as somewhere to store the syntax of Linux commands that I don't use very often but has grown into my general purpose diary and todo app, it even has a section used for the CCC where i record clues , the setter and solver, the solution and the time it was posted and solved.
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
Microsoft Sticky Notes. All notes are labeled by type, quarter and year. I've tried every major note keeping tool in existence, paper trails, and even diction software, but in the end a giant bag of non-hierarchical notes which are easily searchable trumps everything in terms of both maintenance, scalability and has a low barrier-to-entry. I can search and read notes on my computer, on my phone, or any browser. There's rudimentary support for color codes and markup. There's no overall structure to maintain. What else do you need?
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For my purposes, 'good enough'. With the front and the back scanned and OCRed, I have yet to have a search failure. If the front of the CD case is in a fancy script the results are poor, but invariably the normal lettering on the back is very accurate in most cases.
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Sh*t, I've got disciples now? How come I missed out on groupies and went straight to "nut cult leader"?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Me: "Honey, I joined a cult and didn't know it!" Lounge: "One of us, One of us, One of us..." As for the OP question: Text file in cloud storage (Dropbox) as per my Cult leader, and I bookmark any useful web pages so that I know they helped when I inevitably google the problem again (and again etc. ;-))
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I have a subdir named Code Snippets in my Projects dir, where all my projects code resides. Every time I do something that strikes me as "something I'm going to need to do again but won't remember how I did it" gets the code snippet saved in there with an indicative title. Been doing this for my entire career (30+ years). Add to it and browse it couple times a week. Getting to the time where I'm thinking of who to pass it down to.
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I can definitely recommend mediawiki. It may be overkill for a lone developer, but for any size team it works well. It's simple enough to manage and it provides a decent search. Authoring is easy enough, just follow the cheatsheet. Our team has used it for over almost 15 years. Our corporate IT overlords have replaced it with Confluence, which sucks in comparison. Simplicity rules! Cosmo Jetson! You're Fiiiiired!
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I use "Agent ransack". At some point, no matter how hard you try to structure things, it gets a way from you. Agent Ransack is essentially a Grep Tool, that is amazingly fast. It's almost as fast as google itself. It's got a (Right mouse click) Context. My Projects vary the whole landscape of technologies, from strait up.NET projects, Documents, Angular, Documentation, notes, tips. Agent Ransack solves this problem: "I know I have this somewhere, but I forget where it is" Keep It Simple, keep it moving.
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
That depends on the manual in question. If we're talking about the documentation of a third-party library I'm using, I put it in my repository. For tips, I don't keep track of them at all once I've implemented them in my code & understood them. If I ever need a link to give someone, I search.
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information. I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there... Do you use something similar? how do you manage it? As always thank you in advance!
www.robotecnik.com[^] - robots, CNC and PLC programming
I made some XSLT files and an XML TOC to point to several HTML text files in a folder. Lots of times, I wished I had a Wiki, and tested a few Wikis, upon which the domain I had the test Wikis on was hacked through a backdoor in one of the Wikis. MediaWiki is probably the safest, but is slow, and I prefer having the articles each in their own text file. Some day.
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I use "Agent ransack". At some point, no matter how hard you try to structure things, it gets a way from you. Agent Ransack is essentially a Grep Tool, that is amazingly fast. It's almost as fast as google itself. It's got a (Right mouse click) Context. My Projects vary the whole landscape of technologies, from strait up.NET projects, Documents, Angular, Documentation, notes, tips. Agent Ransack solves this problem: "I know I have this somewhere, but I forget where it is" Keep It Simple, keep it moving.
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The free versions not too bad. I've not completely converted to it yet but will eventually. If they sold OneNote separately, and not subscription I would probably purchase it.
The less you need, the more you have. Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally. JaxCoder.com
Jumping in only to point out that Microsoft OneNote is free and does not require any "subscription" whatsoever. True, a Microsoft account is needed - but that is all. OneNote for Windows and OneNote can be installed side by side. See here: https://i.imgur.com/pGElovQ.png[^] OneNote for Microsoft 365 can be obtained here: Download OneNote[^] Just my two cents.
