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1. Rusty Crab (rustycrab@sleepy.cafe)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 03:31:19 JST Rusty Crab
   As google and other search engines become more unreliable and unable to answer even basic questions, "personal knowledge databases" I think will become an important part of life. Those easy instructions on how to do x you found a month ago are now unfindable due to being buried under a mountain of listicles and unrelated bullshit. I'd seriously consider looking into searchable note taking apps like logseq or obsidian
   • Wrongthink (wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 04:50:14 JST Wrongthink

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     @RustyCrab I keep a stockpile of .txt files for technical things. It’s actually faster and more manageable than conducting a web search each time.

     Also grep -e term ~/stockpile/*.txt becomes a sort of internal “search engine” that way.

   • Rusty Crab (rustycrab@sleepy.cafe)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 05:13:16 JST Rusty Crab

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     • Wrongthink
     @wrongthink I have done that too but it's become increasingly hard to manage. I like the idea of being able to interlink the documents by auto completed name on the fly. You can also automatically query information like an excel function so that, say, to do tasks on a particular topic or of a certain priority will compile themselves into a list automatically. It's hard to describe the benefits of these two programs until you use them.
     
     I'm going to use them at work and life and see if they can help because I'm juggling way too much shit in my head these days and it's causing cosmic stress. I've been taking some setup notes for linux toolsets and being able to quickly refer back to stuff with fuzzy search already saved me time
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