I stumbled upon that person awhile back when a blog post I made got scooped up into their MEMEX

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for tracking things, I mostly rely on the tools within orgmode emacs. there are a few parts to my system. For context, org mode is a markup languages that focuses on headings with metadata attached to them, and they may be nested (an outliner).

- Project outline: I maintain project structures within org -- nested headlines for "tasks" "notes" "captures"
- Capturing: generate capture targets to the above locations, so that filing something away into an appropriate location is a few keystrokes away
- Status: Headings may have various statuses, I primarily use TODO and DONE
- Scheduling: I schedule headings to have reminders popup at dates, my current "heads up" is 3 minutes before (for appts and such)
- Habits: A heading that is TODO and with a repeating schedule is a habit -- These cannot be set to DONE, instead a note with a timestamp is made everytime.
- Clocking: You can clock time to headings with emacs timers -- I ensure that all time I spend at a computer is clocked under a heading, although I do have some "misc" headings (for browsing or netflix)

With the above concepts, I can do stuff like "check for outdated habits that are marked TODO" and annoy myself into doing them. I can review where my time goes (with clocking visualizers), and jump to referenced/captured notes. I send things scheduled in the future to my phone with syncthing, so that I get notifications there for stuff as well, via an org-mode android app. It's an ongoing process, but I think org is flexible enough of a playground to make what I want happen (provided you are already sold on emacs).

External to org I've been keeping an eye on: wallabag (track read position of articles), miniflux (rss aggregator), anki (flash cards on the go). There's just so much out there -- I prefer to find self-hosted solutions where I can, ideally with a plain-text interface.

OH! I've also been playing with hledger, a plain-text accounting tool recently. The hardest part was internalizing double column book keeping initially, after I grokked the model it was really fun to setup -- seeing where your money goes is a good start for thinking about things you might want to change.


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I've been keeping my eye on this thread awhile, it's hard to chip in because "knowledge center" for me, is sort of a shifting target. But it's mainly a big ole org file for me -- I'll do a proper writeup another time.