docker -d -p 80:8000 repo/container

I also recommend Farnam Street Blog (http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/) for a lot of interesting suggestions.

Anyway, I'm incredibly thankful for all the contributors. Learning and using Django let me meet great people, experience new things and had quite an impact on my life. Yay Open Source! ;).

[1] In general, I think that watching big project on GitHub for just a few weeks can be better lesson than reading a book on the topic (it depends, of course, but it's a great learning experience nonetheless)

Do you regularly review things in your Safari's reading list or it keeps growing? Because that's the problem in my case.

I also try to use my memory as often as possible and I think it's pretty good (I'm learning mnemonic techniques which are really fun to implement in everyday life). Yes, mind itself is reaaaallly good system, but (at least for me) not all my insights, ideas, notes etc. about particular topic are available on demand, but only some part of them. And if I don't think about one thing very often it can be lost forever. Nevertheless, thank you for taking time to write about your system and giving different perspective.

Another thing is archiving all those bookmarks, since after few years a number of them is 404.

I can sympathize with bookmarks problems, not only they rot, but after few years there is a lot of 404 (pinboard provides archiving bookmarks but that is a paid service).

Do you have a lot of Anki decks of just a single "random things from the bookmarks"? Do you use Anki every day or rather infrequently?

How do you use Tiddlywiki - do you often search or do you know where did you put some note? What in your opinion are pros and cons of this wiki? What do you think is the biggest problem?

In the past I've tried to use POIC system[0][1] but it wasn't really that efficient and the biggest 2 problems were search (mostly full text, I could find entry from a particular date quite easly) and portability - over time it becomes a big physical thing you need to store (I move quite often).

I agree with you about dividing (almost) everything into single pieces of information and adding to the system, but I'm still trying to figure out how to do this well.

[0] http://pileofindexcards.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

[1] http://lifehacker.com/the-pile-of-index-cards-system-efficie...

Do you think that solution to the whole personal knowledgebase problem should be solved from a single app perspective or is it better to think about this as a sort of ecosystem - one "module" for adding new things to the system, other for statistics[0], sync etc.? Also, did you consider semantic part of such system? So we can write programs that can make sense of all the things we have in the system?

[0] I was actually thinking about using machine learning to somehow finding the most important things in the wiki and suggesting tags/place in hierarchy of new entries

Do you have categories in which single entries are grouped or you just add new thing and search for it later?

- pinboard for managing bookmarks (database of things that may be useful sometime; probably never) & reading list for articles

- I'm testing tagspaces (http://www.tagspaces.org/) for local files organization (mostly tagging research papers and books; didn't like Mendeley)

- cardav & caldav from owncloud for contacts and events

- anki as a memorization tool (spaced repetition) - from languages to my own mistakes (i.e. "lessons learned", so I won't repeat them)

- for insights, notes, ideas, things I've learned & everything else I use personal wiki (media wiki) on localhost. This is the biggest part of my "system", I have there entries like things to buy someday, current project's notes/resources, useful scripts, configuration snippets, notes from books, journeys, analysis of my own behaviour, personal journal, ideas for startups etc. But it's hard to organize, it becomes a mess very easly after some time. Also, I can't use it on mobile (I don't want to put all this on the web, there is a lot of personal info), it takes time to add new thing/entry (I need to think to which page new piece of information belongs etc.).

- simplified version of gtd as a meta-system managing this system and for projects/things to do

We "collect" data all the time, and sometimes it helps us learn something. On one hand we have things that were created by others: funny images, movies, articles on the web, books. On the other we have things creted by us: personal insights, thoughts, snippets of code. How do you manage/organize all of this? Do you have apps/tools for organizing specific type of information and if so, why this particular one? Do you have ideas how to organize/manage this efficiently?

But we're not only collecting information [0], we also learn from it. Most people store all this knowledge in their heads for their whole life, but I think it's not efficient (memory loss, can't search, not always reliable etc.), some people create some kind of personal knowledge bases (e.g. personal dokuwiki/mediawiki on localhost). How do you manage/organize things you learn?

It may seem that I should create 2 different topics, but for me both concepts are connected[1]. What I'm trying to find is an efficient solution to managing (almost) all the information that enters (and already is in) my life. I don't think that there exist a good app for that, I know that there are some that solve parts of this problem (evernote, wikis etc.), but I'm more interested in your ideas on the whole topic, how to approach this problem, where to look, how to think about this etc.

I'm curious about your solutions, ideas and "setups" for this problem(s). If you have any resources (books, research papers etc.) about the topic, I'd love to learn from them. Thank you for your time.

[0] as in bits on the disk, learning can be viewed as collecting new information, I guess

[1] I liked quote from a book, some code from LLVM gave me an insight into a compiler design etc.

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