Archivy
Productivity
personal knowledge base
SHOW HN2020
219points
58comments
#238of 3,028 in 2020
Top 8%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Web page archiving is a useful feature
From 2 comments
Nice idea, it would be interesting if you could integrate the wayback machine so it archives the webpage you add. That way even if the original page gets deleted, a snapshot will…
clashmeifyoucan on HNCool! I really like the (upcoming) idea of watching your own online profiles on HN and such for upvotes and saving those pages. It’s essentially what I already use those upvotes…
stfwn on HN
Markdown flat-file storage avoids lock-in
From 2 comments
It does use flat files for storage, so there's not much lockin there.
osmarks on HNcan't speak for the author but: * obsidian is a proprietary piece of software so you can't rely on it for long term archival. There's zero guarantee the company that makes it…
masukomi on HN
Objections
Elasticsearch is overkill for a personal knowledge base
From 3 comments
> A) doesn't embrace the same idea of building your own digital garden that holds nt only your notes but also automatically syncs with different services like hn, pocket etc to…
Naac on HNFirst, I love that this exists. I was playing around with exactly the same concept (text files w/structured front matter as a personal knowledge base) a few months ago, but…
pbronez on HNPretty cool. Instead of elastic search you could also use SQLite5 with its full text search support.
djhworld on HN
Hard to stick with personal knowledge bases over time
From 3 comments
Worth noting that this is written by a 15 year old. This looks interesting, nice integration with Elasticsearch as well. However, I see and have tried tools like this several…
siraben on HNIt's funny because I used to be more obsessive about storing my knowledge when I was younger. I kept track of tidbits of information using various systems (emacs wiki mode or…
allenu on HNI went through approximately same stages, and eventually found that the knowledge base is mostly useless. What it matters turned out to be my own words: my personal notes on the…
lifthrasiir on HN
Requests
Option for a pure Python search backend such as Whoosh
From 1 comment
First, I love that this exists. I was playing around with exactly the same concept (text files w/structured front matter as a personal knowledge base) a few months ago, but…
pbronez on HN
Use SQLite full-text search instead of Elasticsearch
From 1 comment
Pretty cool. Instead of elastic search you could also use SQLite5 with its full text search support.
djhworld on HN
Questions
Whether saving web pages to Wayback Machine would help
From 2 comments
Nice idea, it would be interesting if you could integrate the wayback machine so it archives the webpage you add. That way even if the original page gets deleted, a snapshot will…
clashmeifyoucan on HNWhile I greatly appreciate that it saves it locally, which I consider essential, but saving it to wayback machine serves a different purpose: In case of a dispute with another…
keyb0ardninja on HN
Alternatives named
TiddlyWiki
From 2 comments
A much more complete version of this is tiddlywiki: https://tiddlywiki.com/
Naac on HNWorth noting that this is written by a 15 year old. This looks interesting, nice integration with Elasticsearch as well. However, I see and have tried tools like this several…
siraben on HN
Obsidian
From 1 comment
I love to see the web-page archiving. Curious about how you see your tool versus Obsidian. Have you checked out Obsidian? Similarly uses markdown and front matter on the local…
jitl on HN
Org-roam
From 1 comment
I accomplish this with Emacs + Org-roam. And it's a 'forever' file system, all text. https://www.orgroam.com/
stakkur on HN
MyBase
From 1 comment
After trying dozens of tools, I settled on MyBase for work related notes.
edgarvaldes on HN