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Ask HN: Note taking for initial learning and disorganized/related tasks
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I am trying to figure out a solution to taking quick notes that may be disorganized and/or incorrect while learning some new technical material. I thought I saw a post here recently that could be used for searching old notes and viewing a graph of connected notes. I cannot find it. Many things I do are set-up once, but never revisited or changed for long periods of time. Then, I have to re-google and learn again. Often with out-dated documentation. For instance, I am currently working towards a cluster setup for containers and various apps. I do not have a particular end-goal. I am trying to expand my knowledge and and will be rebuilding as I break things. Since I am learning, I am copy/pasting a lot and have many disjointed tasks as I progress. Many of the guides/tutorials have out-dated information which I then have to note again. I would like to jot down notes/commands and then come back to organize into actual procedures once I have things implemented properly. An example that came today was the need to add a secondary interface to Ubuntu for a VLAN. I may never revisit this for years, but will need to repeat it sometime. It would be nice to be able to reference this VLAN procedure/notes and in-line them to a task note that was initially unrelated. I may have forgotten that I ever made the notes in the first place and then duplicate it again. Right now, I am not building documentation, but noting things I am not sure are even correct yet that may end up as documentation. Almost like I need a tagging/searchable/dated system but I don't know what the tags would be yet.