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[68.2.246.115]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ij30-20020a170902ab5e00b0015f15459652sm653277plb.277.2022.05.12.21.08.05 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 12 May 2022 21:08:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Adam Thornton Message-Id: <08997658-ED25-44DB-9C49-2115DE205310@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_64A14DCC-5BFB-4E00-A457-B8DAD95D980E" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3696.80.82.1.1\)) Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 21:08:03 -0700 In-Reply-To: To: Kevin Bowling References: <8b7daf0d-991a-e8be-9dff-63fe4fb688ab@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3696.80.82.1.1) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Document management in Unix, back in the day? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --Apple-Mail=_64A14DCC-5BFB-4E00-A457-B8DAD95D980E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > On May 12, 2022, at 9:01 PM, Kevin Bowling = wrote: >=20 > On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 10:02 AM Will Senn > wrote: > Today I bit the bullet and dropped my many articles and electronic = documents related to my technical explorations into Zotero. I was tired = of constantly having to remember where the documents were located and I = wanted to be able to curate them better (I tried git for a while, back = when, but I'm not a fan of non-text data in my repos, and it wasn't = really much better than the base file system approach). I've been using = Zotero for years now, for academic works, but not for technical works = unrelated to my research. I realized the man-years of effort to clean up = the entries that I had created in about 30-40 seconds of exciting drag = and drop, just about the time I deleted them from their original = locations. I think the work will pay off in due time, but we'll see.=20 >=20 > Then I thought, surely, I'm not the first person to have had this = problem... it occurred to me that y'all must have faced this very = problem, a few years in, back in the late 70's, early 80's. That is, = document management. What did you do, variously, considering both text = and non-text? >=20 >=20 > Emacs org-mode comes to mind=20 And if you happen to need presentations.... https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal That's right: Javascript slide deck directly from org-mode. Better than sliced bread. Adam --Apple-Mail=_64A14DCC-5BFB-4E00-A457-B8DAD95D980E Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

On May 12, 2022, at 9:01 PM, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 10:02 AM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
Today I bit the bullet and dropped my many articles and electronic documents related to my technical explorations into Zotero. I was tired of constantly having to remember where the documents were located and I wanted to be able to curate them better (I tried git for a while, back when, but I'm not a fan of non-text data in my repos, and it wasn't really much better than the base file system approach). I've been using Zotero for years now, for academic works, but not for technical works unrelated to my research. I realized the man-years of effort to clean up the entries that I had created in about 30-40 seconds of exciting drag and drop, just about the time I deleted them from their original locations. I think the work will pay off in due time, but we'll see.

Then I thought, surely, I'm not the first person to have had this problem... it occurred to me that y'all must have faced this very problem, a few years in, back in the late 70's, early 80's. That is, document management. What did you do, variously, considering both text and non-text?


Emacs org-mode comes to mind 

And if you happen to need presentations....


That's right: Javascript slide deck directly from org-mode.

Better than sliced bread.

Adam

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