Everything I Know Wiki
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personal wiki
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How HN took it
15 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 6 critical, out of 44 comments about the project. Thread score +0.24.
Idea: 14 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Inspiring idea for personal knowledge bases
From 4 comments
I really like this idea. I may steal it. Thanks for sharing.
codemati on HNI got really inspired by it a few months ago and created my own repository. Thank you for the idea OP.
bibyte on HNThis is very cool. I am working on a similar project since past 2 weeks but also plan on providing the resources(at least those which I think worked very well for me) to readers.…
polymath_potato on HNThis is a great project. I've been attempting to achieve a similar goal but just by writing articles on topics I'm interested in. Even if its a synthesis of other things I'm…
xtracerx on HN
Interesting window into the maker's mindset
From 2 comments
This is great and extremely interesting. I imagine me and you (and many others here on HN) fall in the spectrum were many of our interests converge so reading some of the things…
krelian on HNI personally struggle at times to grasp some concepts being a first generation immigrant does have some effects but it’s also the lack of a deeper level of communication. Seeing…
cmauniada on HN
Objections
Sharing so much personal content feels creepy or bleak, especially the seduction section
From 2 comments
Am I the only one here that thinks this is all a bit creepy? The technical bits I get, but the parts on general life advice, especially the chapter on “seduction” give me a very…
tnolet on HNYes, it's judgemental. This is a discussion forum and this is my view on it, this is how I "judge" it. But honestly, I'm all for weird & quirky. However, my response to reading…
tnolet on HN
Sharing personal knowledge publicly risks exposure to misuse
From 1 comment
I don't see transparency as necessarily a virtue to optimize over everything else, or even a terminal good in itself. Consider: Would it be wise for a CIA agent to run an…
mpoteat on HN
Requests
Timeline view aligning nodes with creation dates
From 1 comment
This looks very cool. I would like to see a combination of Learn Anything and this wiki, but driven by a timeline, so that nodes align with the date they were created at. And…
andreygrehov on HN
Tagging instead of many categories
From 1 comment
I like this a lot and I wonder if it could work for me too. Currently, I use the iOS Notes app as my thought archive but it's obviously not very organized. One thing I notice…
Invictus0 on HN
Questions
How to separate obvious knowledge from what is worth writing down
From 1 comment
Really cool project. How do you differentiate between things that have been too internalized/are too obvious and things that are worth writing down? i.e. you don't have a section…
aj_g on HN
How to capture learning across devices, especially mobile
From 1 comment
This is pretty comprehensive. How do you manage to capture learning across devices? For instance when I find some interesting link on my mobile, I read and save it to Pocket but…
indogooner on HN
Alternatives named
Commenters' own personal wikis and knowledge bases (Kowalczyk blog, Notion, Orgmode, GitHub repos)
From 3 comments
I do a similar thing at https://blog.kowalczyk.info/ (under "My external brain"), e.g. section on programming:…
kjksf on HNI created a github repository[1] for my personal knowledge base. There are other people doing this too[2] [1] https://github.com/azappella/knowledge [2]…
azappella on HNI do something similar at http://www.rodrigofranco.com/ — all using Orgmode exports.
caffo on HN
Buckminster Fuller's Everything I Know
From 1 comment
Very cool. My thoughts went to the series Buckminster Fuller did called “Everything I Know”. [1] What inspired you to do this? [1]…
decasteve on HN
Pocket, DevonThink, OneNote, Workflowy
From 4 comments
This is pretty comprehensive. How do you manage to capture learning across devices? For instance when I find some interesting link on my mobile, I read and save it to Pocket but…
indogooner on HNBack when I was getting my degree and was reading & writing a lot I got really enamored with the idea having an extensive repository of everything I had read or learned or simply…
Quequau on HNUsing a system of personal knowledge management (PKM) has been a huge boon for me. Just the act of jotting down all my ideas whenever I have them (Google Keep), then dedicating…
alexpetralia on HNI love this! I'm a big knowledge hoarder myself. My brain is mostly written down in workflowy. I hope the day I die I'll be able to give friends/family members this one bug…
theicfire on HN