Tech day notes for April 13

tech-day-04-13-2022.md

Personal Knowledge Banks (PKB)

• Joplin
  • Access notes from any device
  • Add PDF, audio files, videos
  • Add graphs and math
  • Colaborate with a group or share with a link using Joplin Cloud
  • Save web pages as notes
  • Write notes in rich text or Markdown.
  • App for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS.
  • Notes are saved as open formats, so you can move them to other services
  • Not accessible for screen reader users.
• QownNotes
  • All notes are in plain text Markdown format, no vendor lock-in.
  • Uses services like Nextcloud to sync.
  • Uses native OS resources so doesn't take up much disk space.
  • Can be extended or changed with scripts.
  • Moderately accessible for screen reader users.
• Loqseq
  • Outliner based on Markdown notes
  • Allows you to connect notes together with links
  • Allows you to organize tasks in order of urgency
  • Not accessible for screen reader users.
• OrgMode
  • "Your life in plain text"
  • Can be used as an outliner, writing books and papers, a to-do system
  • Has an agenda view for showing to-do items for the day, week, or everything
  • Can combine with other Emacs packages, like Org-roam, for further abilities
  • Is accessible using Emacspeak for screen reader users
• Obsidian
  • Powerful knowledge base on top of local Markdown files
  • Allows you to connect ideas
  • Has a graph view to visually show connected items
  • Extendable with plugins
  • Not accessible for screen reader users
• Roam Research
  • Good for research, tracking goals, and planning
• Dendron
  • Fast note-taking tool that is fast even with a lot of notes
  • Quickly make daily journals with to-do items.
  • Allows you to build a knowledge-base
  • You can publish notes to the Internet as a digital garden
  • Works on Markdown files so is portable.
  • Works inside VS Code, a text editor
  • Is accessible for screen reader users.