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I'm checking out various "personal knowledge management" tools in a sandbox to see if it be an upgrade my ragtag collection of text file-based notes.
First candidate is #Logseq, supposedly "privacy-first".
How #privacy friendly is something based on Electron (aka Chrome)? Debatable, but then they also do this:
- Have "Send usage data" on by default
- Start with an example page that embeds a YouTube video, and accepts all cookies
tcpdump and mitmproxy go wild when starting the program.
@loadhigh@bitbang.social
Not sure you have a NextCloud to work with, but my current solution to a similar dilemma was a personal NC+Iotas on Linux.
@Brett_E_Carlock@mastodon.online Ah, no, I never got around to setting up a NextCloud.
Does Iotas or NextCloud Notes have some way or organizing notes with tags or some other attributes?
@loadhigh@bitbang.social Ah, no, not really. I take it this is a firm requirement for how you manage your data?
There is a Category feature, but that maps to folder hierarchy on storage, and is mostly similar to OneNote's structure with Pages/Subpages, I think. Not terribly complex.
Items can't belong to multiple groups/categories.
I am wondering if maybe QOwnNotes might be more appropriate, which also has an optional NextCloud backend?
@Brett_E_Carlock@mastodon.online
I currently have my text notes in a directory structure but I think/hope I can find them more easily if I can browse through them by tag or other attributes, and remove the need to decide each time which directory they fit in best.
I wish there was a "personal knowledge manager" that's a real, native application like QOwnNotes but it's Electron all the way down (so far, at least.)
@loadhigh@bitbang.social
My top-level is really broad and I stick hashtags into the body of notes I need to find easily as NC Notes search is full-text and pretty nice, so far.
But yeah, proper tags would be way better but less portable/strict MarkDown 🤔