From: Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com>
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Subject: [EE]: How do you organize your 'notes'
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The 'hiring firmware people' thread got me to thinking about asking this
question:

How do you organize your notes so you can find them later for reference?

At the moment I have about 7 years worth of notes with code and links and
other references kept inside Emacs and org-mode (it's text base so I can
look at it with any editor). I use a lot of features such as links (URLs
and local file links and same file links), block mode (usually executable
code fragments) and notebooks pointing to notebooks pointing to notebooks.
Problem is that I'm beginning to find that I can't recall some detail that
would lead me back to the specific notes. Lots of my projects have odd
names or worse geek-code (letters and numbers - not as bad as UUIDs).

I have attempted to use MS notes but find it annoying and limited (no
lisp ;-) ). So I tend to take my org notes and print them out to a nice
format MS Notes can use and stored them there. But Note's search is worse
than my gigs of org files. I do have Unix tools on Windows and I have been
using grep -rn . -e 'whatever' which helps but as the data grows the time
it takes is getting worse.

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