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Re: [EXT] Hierarchical note taking, Joplin, Trilium, browser extensions, etc..

by John Stoffel

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > The "storing my notes in some sensible format" is high on my list of features. Same here. Currently I have a directory with a pile of files in there and I use grep alot, and emacs (sometimes VIM) to edit my notes. Saves my ass all the time, but doens't scale well. > Calle can speak more directly to her needs, but for me I have this > giant never ending emacs buffer that's a tangle of web links, > snippets of text, random "oh cool ansible" one off commands, etc. > It's not scalable, it's on one machine and it lacks good meta data > around the entries.. what I can do is say "what were all the links I > went to two weeks ago?" I don't bother with the web snippets, I just mostly leave tabs open forever. :-) And I have a ton of half written web interfaces, python scripts, old emails saved in VM format mailbox files,etc. I need to move them to maildir format at some time, but even now it's useful enough to grep through (sometimes I use glimpse) and them run less, or visit the mail file with 'vm' in emacs to view the data. > Right now I have the equivalent of the pile of somewhat searchable > paper two feet high. *only* two feet? I think mine is two *miles* high! > I've tried to use confluence at work and that product is a > horrendous priece of shit. Most products are, because GUIs sell due to the low learning curve. But they're *slow* to interact with. Why do you think MS finally made powershell and people love ansible and other tools like that? Because GUI work doesn't scale. If you take the time to get over the learnign curve, keyboard shortcuts are the way to productivity. And that's why I still write these emails in 'vm' on emacs in an SSH connection. Just so much faster and simpler. But viewing GUI images sucks... John

Aug. 14, 2023

Re: Reminder! Meeting tonight at Technocopia! Time: 7pm!

by Jeff Moyer

John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > - We also talked about how to pass through NVidia graphics cards into > VMs, so you can get better rendering performance, and all the > issues, tradeoffs and outright problems of doing this. I'm interested in hearing more about this. I recently gave this a try (I want to use a VM as my work desktop), and it took quite a lot of research and trial and error in order to come up with a working configuration. I setup the system boot off of integrated AMD graphics and automatically start a VM on the nvidia adapter. I pass through the keyboard and mouse via evdev (without evdev, the mouse is practically unusable). This works ok, so long as I don't want to use the host system(!). I'm using the nouveau driver, and that also has issues if I switch inputs on my monitor (as in, my graphical display will cease to exist). How do others set this up? Does anyone have a configuration they are happy with? -Jeff

Aug. 14, 2023

Re: [EXT] Hierarchical note taking, Joplin, Trilium, browser extensions, etc..

by Tim Keller

The "storing my notes in some sensible format" is high on my list of features. Calle can speak more directly to her needs, but for me I have this giant never ending emacs buffer that's a tangle of web links, snippets of text, random "oh cool ansible" one off commands, etc. It's not scalable, it's on one machine and it lacks good meta data around the entries.. what I can do is say "what were all the links I went to two weeks ago?" Right now I have the equivalent of the pile of somewhat searchable paper two feet high. I've tried to use confluence at work and that product is a horrendous priece of shit. Tim. On Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 11:06 PM Krichevsky, Nicholas via WLUG < wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > It's not open source, but I use Obsidian at work. That said, it stores all > the notes as markdown files on disk, so even if the company were to go up > in flames, you can still access your notes > > Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> > ------------------------------ > *From:* Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > *Sent:* Friday, August 11, 2023 9:31:31 PM > *To:* Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > > > *Cc:* Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> > *Subject:* [EXT] [WLUG] Hierarchical note taking, Joplin, Trilium, > browser extensions, etc.. > > At last night's meeting, a new attendee brought up a problem she was > having and one of the solutions that got bandied about was Joplin. > > After doing some research, this might be my new note taking app. > Another very interesting FOSS tool out there is called "Trilium" > https://github.com/zadam/trilium > > As much as I like google's keep.. I'm fully aware that google capable of > just pulling the rug out from under me in a moment's notice. > > I've spun up U22.04.3 server and I'm going to tinker with Joplin and > possibly Trilium and let people know what I think of them. > > Tim. > > -- > I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their > constituents as "consumers". > _______________________________________________ > WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org > Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ > Change Settings: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ > Web Forum/Archive: > https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/55SLG… >

Aug. 12, 2023

Re: [EXT] Hierarchical note taking, Joplin, Trilium, browser extensions, etc..

by Krichevsky, Nicholas

It's not open source, but I use Obsidian at work. That said, it stores all the notes as markdown files on disk, so even if the company were to go up in flames, you can still access your notes Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2023 9:31:31 PM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Cc: Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> Subject: [EXT] [WLUG] Hierarchical note taking, Joplin, Trilium, browser extensions, etc.. At last night's meeting, a new attendee brought up a problem she was having and one of the solutions that got bandied about was Joplin. After doing some research, this might be my new note taking app. Another very interesting FOSS tool out there is called "Trilium" https://github.com/zadam/trilium As much as I like google's keep.. I'm fully aware that google capable of just pulling the rug out from under me in a moment's notice. I've spun up U22.04.3 server and I'm going to tinker with Joplin and possibly Trilium and let people know what I think of them. Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Aug. 12, 2023

Hierarchical note taking, Joplin, Trilium, browser extensions, etc..

by Tim Keller

At last night's meeting, a new attendee brought up a problem she was having and one of the solutions that got bandied about was Joplin. After doing some research, this might be my new note taking app. Another very interesting FOSS tool out there is called "Trilium" https://github.com/zadam/trilium As much as I like google's keep.. I'm fully aware that google capable of just pulling the rug out from under me in a moment's notice. I've spun up U22.04.3 server and I'm going to tinker with Joplin and possibly Trilium and let people know what I think of them. Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

Aug. 12, 2023

Re: Reminder! Meeting tonight at Technocopia! Time: 7pm!

by John Stoffel

Oh, another thing we talked about at Dinner afterwards was Core Rope Memory on the apollo spacecraft. Here's a fun read for all you techies out there: http://www.righto.com/2019/07/software-woven-into-wire-core-rope-and.html And in general, this is a great blog as well. Also, look at the "Curious Marc" youtube channel if you get a chance. Amazing work on bringing back old Apollo Comms and other old hardware. John

Aug. 11, 2023

Re: Reminder! Meeting tonight at Technocopia! Time: 7pm!

by David Glaser

John, Good summary. Thank you. -David On 8/11/2023 8:49 AM, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote: > Guys, > > I hope the remote crew found using the Owl to be helpful and useful. > Technocopia is a bit louder than other spaces we've used, but the > energy is just great. > > [snipped a lot of text] -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com

Aug. 11, 2023

Re: Reminder! Meeting tonight at Technocopia! Time: 7pm!

by John Stoffel

Guys, I hope the remote crew found using the Owl to be helpful and useful. Technocopia is a bit louder than other spaces we've used, but the energy is just great. Some of the discussion subjects last night included: - using emacs to interface into a system to track documents and meta-data. This is a personal issue for me too since I have close to 30 years of emails to search through at times. I use a tool called 'glimpse' which is old. Think of it as grep on steroids. First you have to index your docuemnt store, then you search against the index. It does support re-indexing and updating, so you don't have to do a full scan again. Someone mentioned "booyah" as an alternative, but I think that's a false lead. Glimpse is in alot of linux distros, or you can find the source (or a version of the source) here on github: https://github.com/gvelez17/glimpse/tree/master - We then talked about how do you group documents once you've indexed them, since you'd like to find similar documents. This is a hard thing to do. I've been looking on and off for over 15 years and haven't found anything good yet. I'll keep looking, and would love to see other solutions. I don't want something in the cloud, I'd prefer a CLI based interface, and some way to tag or annotate docs with metadata. IDeally in an automated way, but I personally haven't found anything quite yet. I should try to write something, but elisp (or lisp in general) just doesn't grok in my brain. I could try something in perl or python I guess. Lots of tools there. - Thne Kevin hijacked the meeting and gave us a demo of BowlerStudio, which is just amazing work from (mostly) Kevin in terms of what it offers. Very cool. https://commonwealthrobotics.com/ to do a download and run some tutorials. I hope to get around to this in the future myself. - We also talked about how to pass through NVidia graphics cards into VMs, so you can get better rendering performance, and all the issues, tradeoffs and outright problems of doing this. So anyways, a good meeting, lots of random talking and networking. Hope more can make the next meeting in september in person! John

Aug. 11, 2023

Re: FYI - Article about Framework brand laptop

by Robert Krawitz

On 8/10/23 19:54, Aljerin Butler,Jr. via WLUG wrote: > Need help with that job search What does that have to do with my comment? > On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 05:46:57 PM EDT, Robert Krawitz via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > On 8/9/23 12:23, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote: >>>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Payne via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org <mailto:wlug@lists.wlug.org>> writes: >> >>> I preordered a Framework 16 laptop. The hope is that I have a job >>> before the full bill is due. I managed to get into Batch 3 (late >>> Q4). They are currently up to Batch 10. >> >> I've been seriously impressed by those laptops. I'd personally want >> to get an AMD CPU if I could, and when I could. Not in the market >> right now since $WORK gives me a laptop to play with.... > > Definitely looks interesting. It would be really interesting with a 4K screen and plenty of storage > bays (would really like some SATA options for my existing SATA 2.5" drives).

Aug. 11, 2023

Re: FYI - Article about Framework brand laptop

by Aljerin Butler,Jr.

Need help with that job search? Al Butler On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 05:46:57 PM EDT, Robert Krawitz via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: On 8/9/23 12:23, John Stoffel via WLUG wrote: >>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Payne via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > >> I preordered a Framework 16 laptop. The hope is that I have a job >> before the full bill is due. I managed to get into Batch 3 (late >> Q4). They are currently up to Batch 10. > > I've been seriously impressed by those laptops. I'd personally want > to get an AMD CPU if I could, and when I could. Not in the market > right now since $WORK gives me a laptop to play with.... Definitely looks interesting. It would be really interesting with a 4K screen and plenty of storage bays (would really like some SATA options for my existing SATA 2.5" drives). _______________________________________________ WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ Change Settings: https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ Web Forum/Archive: https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/ZQB52…

Aug. 10, 2023