It took me a while to come up with a coherent description of the questions that ultimately led to the solution I'm presenting in this post. Which in itself I think is quite straightforward. Bear with me here while I lay out the ideas:

1. I like using bookmarks. Lots of people I know don't, but I have a rather lengthy list of them. Or more specifically, I used to have multiple lengthy lists on different …

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I previously wrote about my note taking/information management process here and here. Quite a lot has changed so it's time for a re-revisit.

As noted I found the one-massive-file Wiki approach limiting, especially since it wasn't easily accessible from the command line which is where I spend most of my time. Then the Joplin file sync approach was better, but still far from perfect.

Information wants to be free

In the 1990s I had …

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Documentation-As-Code is a much better approach than your WYSIWYG editor of old.

The general consensus regarding how to create and maintain documentation has definitely changed over the past few years. People had come to regard WYSIWYG text processors as the gold standard. Effortlessly arrange text and images, see what you are getting in real time, and everything is just a click away. Besides the big commercial packages there is also a sprawling landscape of free …

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