But 30 years later, I think there are many reasons why you would not want to do this. (I also stopped doing so after 15.000 posts or so).

– you will grow and you will change opinions about things often 100 percent, the internet memory is however forever – you will enter in different careers and depending on the customer you would not want to be completely frank about every little thing you think or what your preferences are or what your experience is – in real life there are larger groups of persons with very different and often extreme viewpoints on either religious related, political related, culturally related etc viewpoints. This has grown and grown and has become a real life danger if you get picked up by some internet thread on some social media forum. This has changed from the 90’s where the internet was filled with intelligence and a hopeful view on the world. It is easy to fall into the trap of engaging in various discussions – you get children and often different social circles where you want to engage into blanco your children might not like at a certain stage you posting stuff (or pictures) (or opinions) – there are tons of frauds and criminal networks who gladly scrape everything you are from there not in the least for phishing

So more or less: because there is also the real world with the 20% of people who are on the fraud/extreme religious/extreme political/other criminals/dumb side and there is real life social interaction and personal growth the following 30 years where once you write something it becomes stone

My family, who is a- technical, would have not even have a clue on where would be what (since they freak already out if an icon on their phone is move 1 millimeter). So from that nonfunctional requirement for my own home solutions, I decided that self-hosting would not be the best choice, since it would be too dependent on me.

My family's knowledge stops somewhere at the concept of that pressing the B makes a word bold in Microsoft Word. Trying to explain how to run a script on a certain OS via a certain connection would be abracadabra.

The only thing i can imagine is if there would be some kind of paid service that would mirror your own home solutions and provide support for the long run if you fall away and which offers, when there would be again someone more technical to again transfer it to a home environment. (they would take care of new versions, bugfixes, change requests, databackups and so on).

Something like that, but that does not exist (well... as far I know).

So therefore, i try to host every solution at the places which are the simplest to understand and document what needs to happen if I would fall away. I also try to minimize the number of services. So I use office365 and onenote to document everything. (This used to be on my own hosted wiki).

Based on the nonfunctional requirement of maintainability.

I think there is however a need for a service that offers something like the above, to provide long term support for selfhosted environments taking into account all kinds of standards. That would possibly enable the self-hosted direction again.

Then again... could ofcourse then also anydesk to each of them to change whatever they are showing.

And then dump the queries via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1412863/how-do-i-view-th... or https://www.linqpad.net/ ?

So I think you refer to persons who do not do projects but who stay i one company for a large time versus people who do projects (and are sometimes called consultants) and in general how they communicate with each other.

There are projects that last for multiple years with larger TEAMS with the only job to entangle existing complex landscapes. Most of them fail.

Since these teams do consist of pretty smart people... I think one of the funny things you could do is list the things these people say when they start this adventure on day 1 "ah yes lets just grep stuff" or "i will start examining tests" and "i will make a spreadsheet of all interfaces" and "i will do interviews with older developers". About 6 months later the spreadsheet has become a separate application that is so complex that it is a complexity project on its own. The amount of documentation found is now about a couple of million separate documents and realization drops in that the lifetime of the universe is probably nearer as end date. The datamodels found for the gazillion databases now covers a library in itself. the end date of the universe is closer by than the end date of the project trying to understand what the environment is. And no it does not help that any developer or business person ever involved long left the company.

Comments: yes i agree. 80% is logical does not need a comment. 20% are the pieces of code coming out of meetings that lasted hours and which ended with strange outcomes that no-one will ever understand without understanding why things were setup in the way they were setup. And then there is the 20% added by junior developers who had no clue but just changed stuff here and there. It is hard to make that distinction because from the outside they look alike. Anyone trying to change the code to make it "logical" will remove the 20% illogical code and produce something maybe even working but no longer in line with desired results, also a junior mistake.

Office/Excel clientside => SharePoint "Office Server" serverside => then write apps integrating with SharePoint.

SharePoint is an application platform with Excel services on top of .Net. (so that multiple people at the same time can work on an Excel sheet via a web front-end)

It is ment to make the step from local application to server application.

It has auto import / workflows / api / taxonomy / search / etc ...

And in many cases you write the thing that has a linkage to already being in a place in other generic taxonomies e.g. when i my son has an exam on e.g. French Grammer we put some stuff in there to undertand these lessons, but this " structure " is also already on wikipedia. But the structure on wikipedia is just too much too handle. So I think that the end-situation for larger parts of the personal household knowledge management system overlaps with the structure found in " all knowledge ever" systems. So im in the phase that I try to look at the taxonomy of these systems e.g. wikipedia and also e.g .structure "mathemetics in the taxonomy that is on the wikipedia portal page for mathematics" (but slower since i only need what is in there what my kid has currently on school). The younger kid can then leverage on this and read up on this. Since we already made it for the older kid.

But I feel that exchanges between "external taxonomies" and " household taxonomies" have not yet been establised. E.g. I also have all my " stuff" in there like " household applicances" (warranties, but also comparison sheets, instructions etc) but the overal taxonomy and the " wording" is matchable with e.g. shops who sell household appliances. If there would be a taxonomy standardization on all of these things it would enable exchange information on meta level.

So just $whatever = New-Object -ComObject OneNote.Application and then lookat $whatever |get-member to see what you can do for members and properties.

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I tried several things. I needed it because the amount of stuff around a family is just too much to keep in my brain especially with kids who needing a lot of help with their school and trying to also put some fun in it like " nice netflix series you want to share" but also serious stuff like " households tasks, bedtimes etc"

I think I could write a book on what i put in there.

Budget is also interesting, after 20 years I decide on the following structure:

A = income B = budget per household member (so 4 posts) C = everything that needs to be discussed (vacation budget, savings, subscriptions, stuff we want to buy this year, etc) D = everything that we do not need to discuss (mortgage, food, all kinds of city taxes, healthcare etc)

That makes it really simple: only the points in C are needed to discuss "want to spend 20.000 on vacation Or want to spend 20.000 in savings" .

Because I noticed that mosts of the costs stay the same.

Many of these "topics" then tie in or have an overlap with the knowledge management topics from another perspective. So e.g. the budget post C.Subscription.XboxLiveGold ties into culture_and_free_time.games and where we just have fun pages on various game consoles and tips for games we play or we want to share with each other or " favorite games" .

So you need to " scale " from 1 person to a household and take into account that all information you put in there, financials, recipes, addresses, etc. etc.. need to be ubersimple, working on a phone, auto sync etc... and need to continue working even when something would happens to yourself.

So that is why i standardized the knowledge management system in our household on OneNote (2016 client for the laptop).

This is because everyone understands office.

The API both the COM and the graph API also lets you create , update, read, etc... so you can write basically everything you can think of e.g. auto put bank transaction on the correct place in the correct table in the correct place in the taxonomy.

Thinking about the structure of a family and everything in there is also interesting and I had some larger revisions on that.

See also: https://github.com/projectje/OneNoteExporterAkaPublisher