Introduction

I have accreted notes in orgmode files since 2009 on all manner of personal and work projects, todo lists, reference material on numerous hobby and software development topics, takeaways from books I read, workstation setup breadcrumbs, scripts that may not make sense in any particular repository but should be saved somewhere, recipes, instrument plans… on and on for 80k lines of notes. At work, most longer email or document drafts start as a subtree in a living orgmode file before being exported to HTML or Word. If we're chatting about X and I say, "Let me check my notes" and come back with a link related to X, it surely came from one of those orgmode files.

From day one, my org files have been saved in Dropbox (for personal files; OneDrive for work) for reliable sync and short term versioning. This is by and large a one-way setup. Mobile capture is via Google Keep and manual sweep to orgmode on the desktop (I tried an orgmode app briefly, but two-way sync was more trouble than it was worth). At some point long ago I set up a cron job to export personal files to HTML for reading in the Dropbox app on my phone. When the in-app viewer broke relative links, I set up a private static site (along the lines of Private static site).

That's all well and good for a private workflow. Orgmode makes me happy, and I suspect I'll keep all of the above running for as long as I compute.

Lately at work I've been redirecting more notes into Confluence for sharing. This blog is a venue to redirect notes suitable for public sharing and my own searches. I expect to post mainly TIL-style posts.

Living is learning.