Gary Roach wrote: > Hi; > I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of > information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. Examples are > notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible projects, book > that I might want to buy in the future and on and on. This has generated > numerous scraps of paper and sticky notes with the result that chaos > reigns. I recently tried knotes which helped a lot but didn't cover > tasks. I have now switched to Kontact. This takes care of scheduling > things, projects and short term notes. I still am not sure what to do > about those notes that could be around for a long time like maybe a > note on the "proton boron fusion reaction energy" . I may never use it > but would like to be able to find the information if need be. I guess I > need a repository for disparate information (how's that for fuzzy). I > hope this makes some sense. > > Any suggestions. > > Gary R
I usually have a directory where I keep all the relevant "note" files. If the information falls into a specific category (ex:- calendar based events, todo stuff, where you stopped reading a particular book :-) etc.,) I'll have a separate file. If the information is a random tidbit (ex:- "Capital of Libya is Tripoli" and for some weird reason you want to note that down :-)), I just use a plain text file to jot it down. I normally have some conventions (ex: tags, delimiters, content separators) within that file, so that I can write a script to extract all the relevant information as and when needed (ex:- give me all the tidbits related to Fortran language, all the research papers written by a particular author). I guess you can use some database query language if it becomes unmanageable... but I never had to go that far. It takes some time to set up this kind of stuff and come up with conventions that work for your case. But I honestly believe that all you need is a good editor like vim, grep and sometimes find. I am saying this after having tried some GUI applications, applications where the information is stored in a non-greppable format. YMMV. hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i3d0c4$fp...@dough.gmane.org
