I just discovered Readability via the Academic Productivity blog. Similar in intention to the Aardvark extension I posted about a few months ago, it allows you to reformat a page for easier reading: grab only the main content, change the font to a format of your choice. All through a configurable bookmarklet. In contrast to [...]

Warning: this post is

1. out of the normal scope of this blog (it’s about personal _information_ management, not personal _knowledge_ management).
2. mostly for geeks/programmers who will never be fully satisfied by any planning system, ever.

Over the years I’ve tried different ways of handling my ToDo, planning and work logging. This is my Xth iteration.

Changelog

2009/04/10, added script to open files from file manager.

I’ve long wanted a program to annotate PDFs under Ubuntu, but tried many options which all fell short in some way or another. Yet periodically I check to see if a new one has appeared and it seems my wishes have come true, though not through [...]

In my introductory article on RSS, I mentioned that fundamental to a good information diet is following the right sources. Here’s an article on ReadWriteWeb that shows you a method on how to do just that: find the top blogs for a given topic (niche). It compares different ranking systems for blogs.

Once you’ve read that, you might want to check out this other article, which builds on the first one and shows you how to find the most relevant knowledge the set of results you’ve come up with. In essence, it uses AideRSS’ PostRank to find the best articles in the list of blogs you’ve come up with, and shows you how to use Google Custom Search to build a custom search engine that searches only those top sites you’ve found.

Setting up conventions is very useful to keep your personal wiki organized, even after years of maintaining it. In this post I describe some of my own convention and their underlying justification.