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@esquivalient esquivalient commented Jun 28, 2022

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This is branched from #20, which is branched from #19. Ideally, I wouldn't branch from things that haven't been merged yet, but I'm already using these things and it's inconvenient to flop around.

esquivalient and others added 5 commits March 12, 2022 11:44
Why is this change needed?
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I want a better way of recording and organizing knowledge. I reviewed
a bunch of tools in this space including, but not limited to,

- roam
- logseq
- notion
- obsidian

I was surprised to find that Emacs provided the best tooling
overall. I had a lot of requirements, but the key ones were

- no writing style requirements - for example, Roam and Logseq require
  everything to be a node in a tree. I just want to start writing
  without any thought to format. Also, a tree is not always the best
  way to represent information.
- stored in plain text - everything I write should be as portable as
  possible
- stored in a place I can control or export - if I decide to switch
  tools or the tool I'm using goes away, that shouldn't make me start over
- navigate by reference or tag - it should be easy to find linked or
  unlinked references to anything I write about, either because I'm
  implicitly mentioned it somewhere, I've explicitly linked it, or
  I've explicitly grouped the ideas together with a tag

How does it address the issue?
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Org Roam is the most popular zettelkasten package for Emacs and does
the above once configured correctly. I also added Org Roam UI, a web
interface for navigating your notes, to make it even easier to see
knowledge relations and find notes I'm looking for.

This implementation doesn't address all of my needs, but committing
this is the last thing I need to do to switch laptops so it's
happening anyway. In particular, I haven't

- made sure that everything that's embedded in a note is stored in the
  note repository (e.g. adding an image should put the image in the
  repo)
- actually turned the org roam directory into a repo for maximum
  storage safety
- installed a flashcard solution
- enabled transclusion
- decided on a publishing feature (if I want one)

Still, it should fire up and work just fine for anyone. I'm already
using it fairly extensively. It might even eventually take the place
of my tmp file.

Any links to any relevant tickets, articles or other resources?
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Why is this change needed?
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It was recommended by several people while I was setting it up, but I
never want it.

How does it address the issue?
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I'm deleting it because it's bad to have code you never use.

Any links to any relevant tickets, articles or other resources?
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https://3.basecamp.com/3093825/buckets/14355728/todos/4853961505
Why is this change needed?
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The second most common thing I do with Projectile after using it to
find a file in a project is search the project for instances of a
thing. I was using grep because it's easy, but I always use `ag` in my
terminal so it makes sense to expand that option to Emacs.

How does it address the issue?
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Add the package

Any links to any relevant tickets, articles or other resources?
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Why is this change needed?
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It's the most common thing in the world. You make a new branch, then
you want to push those changes to the remote and you get that message
about needing to set the tracking branch or specify more info when you
push. Most documentation about this makes it sound like it's very
straightforward to automate, but I kept running into cases where the
simple solutions didn't work and I'd have to type things out the long
way.

How does it address the issue?
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Add the alias 'gpu' that does all of the steps idempotently. If you
haven't pushed and set tracking, it does it for you. If that's already
done, it pushes. I left a link to the most relevant SO in case the
best way of doing this changes in the future.

Any links to any relevant tickets, articles or other resources?
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I only reviewed the one commit (5b3f6db) but it looks reasonable to me. 👍

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Kk, will merge when I work out the dependent PRs with @mediocretes

@esquivalient esquivalient merged commit 106e46f into master Jul 6, 2022
@esquivalient esquivalient deleted the push_and_set_tracking_branch branch July 6, 2022 20:43
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