https://georgesupreeth.com/web/tags/infomgmt/Recent content in Infomgmt on George SupreethHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 09 Jan 2025 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_wallabag_for_reading_things_later/Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_wallabag_for_reading_things_later/When I was a child in Chennai, (Madras at the time) my parents used to leave me at the home of one Mr.Zacharaiah, who would baby sit me. I remember this ancient man, sitting in his easy chair, with piles of newspapers around him, cutting out articles and pasting them in huge scrapbooks. What these scrapbooks looked like. Source This was a thing people used to do back then. These scrap books were the successors of commonplace books from earlier times.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_social_media_and_me/Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_social_media_and_me/I find social media overwhelming. The noise gets to me after even a little bit of browsing, and by noise I don’t mean just the user interface. It’s the sheer diversity and volume of ongoing conversations. It feels like the equivalent of walking into a massive and raucous party, composed of hundreds of tiny groups, all talking at the same time, using the same passive-aggressive ways of communicating. I find it exhausting.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_mark_up_mark_down_mark_it_all_around/Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_mark_up_mark_down_mark_it_all_around/In my last post, Improving my Information Infrastructure, I wrote about my use of plain text files for capturing the different types of information that enters my life. The benefits of plain text being – portability, sustainability, small size, being human-readable and so on. While, switching over to plain text files instead of specialized database driven apps has made storing and accessing my information much easier, databases provide benefits of their own.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_improving_my_information_infrastructure/Sun, 17 Mar 2024 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_improving_my_information_infrastructure/Table of Contents The problem with BigCorp Building my own FAIR system Plain Text as the foundation The Goal Can I do better? Learn Touch Typing Get better at using Text Editors, particularly learn about the Modal Editing paradigm Search my old mail archives Getting better at the Terminal Syncing, Backups and Version Control Scripting for Automation A Better Website Notes I find it inspiring to read about how people manage their personal information infrastructure.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_todo.dir_is_like_todo.txt_but_with_luggage_space/Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_todo.dir_is_like_todo.txt_but_with_luggage_space/My tasks lived in todo.txt some years ago. It was close to perfect for managing my everyday tasks. Razor fast, easy to work with, and it was supported by most text editors I used. Compared to the bloated, database-driven, task managers I had dealt with up until then, todo.txt was a cool breeze in hell. There was one problem though. todo.txt uses one line per task, and sometimes this was not enough.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_loductivity_software/Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_loductivity_software/It seems to me that there are two kinds of productivity applications. One seems utterly simple upfront but it turns out that this simplicity lets complex arrangements emerge from it. The other seems a little complicated at first, but with a little orientation, it’s apparent complications eventually reduce to simple output. Take Microsoft or Google’s to-do apps for instance. For someone who has never used a task manager of this type before, there may be a slight learning curve on how to setup a task with its due dates and labels.