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Why is it so hard to take notes?

Gerald Haslhofer Gerald Haslhofer Follow Dec 24, 2022 · 1 min read
Why is it so hard to take notes?
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Why are my notes still scattered everywhere?

I have two blogs. One of them for note taking. But there’s no real structure. I have OneNote. But I struggle between personal and company notes. I send emails to myself. It’s mostly for articles I liked and would like to keep.

GitHub / Generated website

Like

  • The safety of a place that I know will be around in years. Github fits that bill nicely.
  • From anywhere. Lowest common denominator - I can add something via a webpage, and know it’ll get committed, safe, durable. No concept of “local”
  • Sharable if needed
  • Markdown - simple format that forces clarity
  • Ability to append / edit
  • Ability to run scripts - promise of automation, or post-processing

Dislike

  • No proper search
  • Images are a pain
  • Locked to page format (I’m not diligent enough to always find the right page to add stuff to)
  • No easy “share to” from phone

Mail to self, or mail to wordpress server

Like

  • Lowest common denominator - share to email usually available
  • Email to wordpress creates a durable “trail”
  • Potentially generates “pretty” representation (website generator)

Dislike

  • Locked into wordpress

File system on OneDrive

Like

  • “Smart docs” folder that has the best of my writing / documents from work
    • A special “place”, special decoration
  • Nice for

Dislike

  • Some garbage accumulates

OneNote

Like

  • Support of many content types (images, web pages, youtube links)
  • API support
  • Search

Dislike

  • requires too much consistency (structure degrades over time)
  • adding is heavy operation
  • over time looks ugly

How to fix

  • Creation of MD files created on github in sequential order
  • all routing via hashtags (public / private)
  • auto-generate source files for website generation (allows to leverage web search tech) - mkdocs or Pelican
  • azure static web app as output

https://github.com/equinor/az-static-web-app-docs-template

  • auto-generate OneNote?

https://www.fullstackpython.com/static-site-generator.html https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs https://www.daveabrock.com/2021/03/14/upload-files-to-github-repository/

https://www.fullstackpython.com/webrtc.html

https://holwech.github.io/blog/Azure-static-web-app/

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