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A note on folders: I think grouping is a good thing alongside linking notes. I like to combine both methods, but instead of sorting notes into folders, I tag them. For personal knowledge bases it's probably fine to "silo" everything, but I found it really useful to add tags to notes when collaborating on the same knowledge base with multiple contributors. That way I don't need to rely on someone elses judgement and can group them from my perspective without colliding with the author. So instead of having folder -> articles, I have article -> tags and an can query by tags.

Emvi [1] has a tag overview page to allow just that, in case you're interested. I'm using it alongside 7 other people, where 3-4 are actively contributing to it (writing).

[1] https://emvi.com/




Do you have private tags visible just to you? Otherwise it seems like the system would get pretty cluttered with everyone's tags

For my work notes I've been copying links to the team docs into my personal note taking system and organizing those as I wished


Also a good way to handle it.

No, Emvi does not support private tags. But usually you won't need many tags to identify it for everyone. I was looking for the fixed IP addresses of our local network recently and couldn't find them by searching for "IP", because it was tagged as "network". Adding IP as a new tag is beneficial for everyone.

You can bookmark, watch, or create a (private) list for stuff you look up frequently.




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