From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 20004 invoked from network); 13 May 2022 04:03:03 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 13 May 2022 04:03:03 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 34B839D458; Fri, 13 May 2022 14:02:57 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652B09CF64; Fri, 13 May 2022 14:02:10 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=fail reason="key not found in DNS" (0-bit key; unprotected) header.d=kev009.com header.i=@kev009.com header.b="PLc6+vaq"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id BDCBC9CF64; Fri, 13 May 2022 14:02:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-yw1-f169.google.com (mail-yw1-f169.google.com [209.85.128.169]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E32279CEFC for ; Fri, 13 May 2022 14:02:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-yw1-f169.google.com with SMTP id 00721157ae682-2f7d7e3b5bfso77961767b3.5 for ; Thu, 12 May 2022 21:02:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kev009.com; s=google; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=8JWTuRLwsXd+LF0BRTDN5jHIQoJZBtEa6BzUqUgah/0=; b=PLc6+vaq6CMmyDkPaYg9B6CVDrFCO9bzmJ/ncwIW+b6i0HqywZ8d4pdZlsWn9XafqL zheF/Ovq0GzLRoFE2oOV3zDtU0WDDiL1VXo2kPLNdMcfZEt1f/GetDgNsi6rFU5OMuec eNzw8Q5VKalZ2KcMsLmf1rrL9nP57Ay0QwyaY= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=8JWTuRLwsXd+LF0BRTDN5jHIQoJZBtEa6BzUqUgah/0=; b=5KMVVByNc3LPtIaGWS7wQV53CeE4NvJScZnnwmW/Eyi5H4UXGXNcmqOhqcJPa4lyU+ DdDaIqI3Dryiko6CWy3zELK6guZ8fWCZ0X9Ak2OH8egiu/0iQhDzsGPGqHP8wq4tzQN9 n+N4DjYVYrw0CIdR23/mz2gdDRUmwR+BsnAJZ/cN2R1rQt32vegIRkuWjrrKw23ocinA SKZZHIWvjmI6nAHtaurOsWgxWfCBnXF/MBU4bKDMv84tU5eUuG1k/D67OXLwD1TmtjBN bX3D+4PyvGbtmyVUD1Zooo/oD54ljSA4GcKSxnFKvuzg0bFhAgUhhTqIeazFhSKdS2zm SCEw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532v/Es+fANv4hvmiD8UF6Cv+2qiN3dIo0e6p9PhMVUEAgegYtBD l1kaj6S+0ZScWABzjfh3c6TRnf+mjdH4Vwq/f8zeJa6mrCQ= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxVW8NyeVbznk57028icVX3Dul4a63Lkx2yVTShp0TfJXiXcvxfWbVkUVLKMoApTGvn6PD368w+heSdHT8dMrM= X-Received: by 2002:a81:a007:0:b0:2fb:9c24:444c with SMTP id x7-20020a81a007000000b002fb9c24444cmr3523772ywg.245.1652414523945; Thu, 12 May 2022 21:02:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <8b7daf0d-991a-e8be-9dff-63fe4fb688ab@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8b7daf0d-991a-e8be-9dff-63fe4fb688ab@gmail.com> From: Kevin Bowling Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 21:01:53 -0700 Message-ID: To: Will Senn Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000b8c84805dedcbc1c" 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" --000000000000b8c84805dedcbc1c Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" 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. > > 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 > Will > > > --000000000000b8c84805dedcbc1c Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 10:02 AM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
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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 bas= e 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. T= hat is, document management. What did you do, variously, considering both text and non-text?


Emacs org-mode comes to mind=C2=A0


Will
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