Wikis are tree-based tools for representing
hierarchies of information.
This personal wiki is the one I maintain.
Others refer to personal wikis as Digital Gardens,
Brain Dumps, or Personal Libraries.
The source of this wiki can be found at https://github.com/jakeisnt/wiki
Motivation
Organization
I needed a way to better organize my ideas.
Administering structure to my data was a good way
to do this, and org-mode provides a good facility for this.
Further, the constraints administered by the website motivate me to better organize my notes as they're visible to the public; without this structure the notes won't even render properly.
Accessibility
I'd like my notes to be easily visible to anyone.
It allows me to easily share my thoughts and perspectives with friends or colleagues.
Publicity
This portal also enables recruiters or future collaborators to learn more about me, my skills and my interests. Perhaps I can build a following, inspire someone, or find an interesting job opportunity if someone stumbles upon this wiki.
Ideas
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https://years.cblgh.org/ Briefly summarize what you've done each month and year! This is excellent for reflection, learning and growth. It can be easily contrasted with goals. I think that doing this on a monthly basis would be much more helpful than yearly; perhaps I could introduce some tags to the wiki that would help catalogue this.
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https://www.brendanschlagel.com/2017/11/05/canonize-creating-personal-canon-template/ :: Add a personal canon; catalogue the things that have had the most impact on you. This could be difficult but it's worth goingthrough the effort! Would be great to do some justice to each thing that's inspired you.
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https://phse.net/values/ :: Cataloguing a list of values on the website seems incredibly value for myself or for others. These ideas are definitely admirable. (Making connections with other people has a higher return than making good work, it seems!)
Design
The design of this wiki has gone through multiple phases.
I started with a Hugo template, adding browsing features in multiple panes to the site, but Hugo proved to be too complex of a tool to sustainably use in the long term.
The current iteration of this site is generated with a Pandoc-based tool I've written myself, as I felt I wanted more customizability. Eventually, I'd like to generate multiple front-ends for the website — so that visitors can view it as a wiki, as a traditional blog, a series of journals, or something in between — depending on how they view the website.
References
I've taken inspiration from several others who maintain wikis.
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Tommy Morrissfirst introduced me to the idea with his personal (private) wiki.
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Jethrohas easily accessible articles and templates that I've made use of to put this together.
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100 Rabbitspublish all of their notes and information in a custom wiki framework.
Logseqis a really cool tool for maintaining a personal knowledge basin that syncs effortlessly with GitHub.
https://github.com/kormyen/memex
Further Inspiration
https://github.com/jackmcdade/secret-public-journal
https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog
https://github.com/bphenriques/knowledge-base elisp wiki
https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge
https://github.com/karlicoss/beepb00p
https://github.com/bennetthardwick/website
https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge — i love the idea of visualizing the ralations of the notes as well as his rationale
https://github.com/aceyoung9/garden
https://github.com/binyamin/eleventy-garden
Notes
https://jlelse.blog/posts/wiki-approach/ cool wiki approach :: find the best method for me ! I think writing a blog post is the best way to help me organize my thoughts, i should get that infrastructure up. nextcloud notes is also a good option, but i do have to set up a nextcloud server to handle that
https://dpitt.me/blog/2020/03/zettelkasten/
obsidian md knowledge base
The Brainis a digital memory solution written and maintained by the brother of Acronym's founder, Errolson,for many years. It's not well known in the technology space, but it's popular with creatives and researchers who often don't intersect with the field.
organization
https://todaytakeseverything.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/the-bullet-journal-bulletproof/
doing things once a day and putting them in a bullet journal or something
https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/1vn6uk/thoughts_on_the_meditations_by_marcus_aurelius/
https://www.veilance.com/gb/en/shop/mens/isogon-mx-jacket
https://www.srid.ca/689c4a39.html bulletproof web app for notes; uses reflex frp and obelisk framewrok
https://reflex-frp.org/ haskell web framework; uses tech called obsidian. feels very opinionated? not sure whether it is good or not
http://shpadoinkle.org/docs/getting-started/index.html some ui library someone is very passionate about, it is unclear whether it is good or worthwhile
https://nesslabs.com/digital-garden-tiddlywiki
https://seekr.github.io/zettel/#colophon
gossip's web a directory of home-grown personal websites, experiments and writing
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Transclusion#overview both the subject of transclusion: the inclusion of one document in another - and the wiki itself are super good here
http://outliners.scripting.com/ 40 years of outliners
https://github.com/TymonZ/garden
working with the garage door up:: why we should learn with wikis in the open.
weakty wiki
hypothesis a margin with conversations anywhere on the web! i cannot stress how cool this is, particularly the trick with the sidebar
https://dreamwiki.sixey.es/welcome.dream/
http://mindforger.com/: markdown-powered wiki software
concrete plan
learn to build small software! a wiki is the best way to do this.
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write a basic org-mode parser in ANSI C and C++
supports links, #+title
, nested bullets, etc. fairly simple to start.
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with inspiration from devine's wiki, integrate this parser into a service
that parses things out to html, also written in ANSI C
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continue to rewrite in rust and other languages, like zig perhaps, for fun and to learn more programming
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experiment with a file format other than org under the hood; something with an equivalent level
of expression but much simpler [i don't use most of the features of org here anyways; org feels like it's
doing too much as a file format, and i use different subsets of the format in different ways]
experiments
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figure out the best way to do project management. learn more about the mailing list strategy adn see how that compares to a TODO.org
approach that I've been using in a few of my projects to take notes and ideas.
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build hyper specific tools to interact with my wiki in different ways to enforce certain ways of integrating with it: adding a new idea, journal entry, or something similar for example. emacs is a nice interface and should be worked on, but it shouldn't be the only one. small, portable .sh
scripts could be fun to experiment with here.
ideas
List of artists and hackers using homegrown time-tracking tools
https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden
https://github.com/drichard/mindmaps
https://joplinapp.org/ open source note taking and todo app local first
self-hosted wiki tool(dendron)
knowledge base from nikita
second brain
digital gardeners
https://github.com/seanbreckenridge/exobrain
https://github.com/jsjoeio/joeprevite.com
notes for people we keep in touch with
open source wiki
Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead
Kate on Twitter: "Making regexp -> NFA compilation faster by constructin
https://github.com/schollz/cowyo neat, encrypted wiki!
Code Samples - Impredicative Wiki
Wiki
bphenriques/knowledge-base: Personal Wiki
Introduction - Everything I know
This FTP site
knowledge/wiki-workflow.md at master · nikitavoloboev/knowledge
Building a digital garden
Tom Critchlow. Move. Think. Create.
Marcin Ignac on Twitter: "I'm fascinated by @andy_matuschak digital garden
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/about.html
https://billdemirkapi.me/
https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring a webring for static site generators, allows for generating a webring from a list of RSS feeds to join the sites together
kormyen/memex
https://github.com/bphenriques/knowledge-base
https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/
http://okmij.org/ftp/
Memex 1.1 | John Naughton's online diary
https://mboxed.github.io/sodatsu/#home
A gardening guide for your mind • Mental Nodes
Collected Notes.
https://bismuth.garden/now anotherPersonal Websites and wiki
https://libarynth.org/start
https://beepb00p.xyz/exobrain/#table-of-contents very cool, simple wiki with an indexable menu
https://marcus-obst.de/wiki/Notetaking opinionated wiki advice
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24108466 iterative approach to notes