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Autor: Curtis Maurand
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> On Aug 16, 2021, at 4:55 PM, o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> 
> Funny guy - - - -
>
>> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 10:36 AM tito via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 09:43:46 -0500
>> o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>>
>> > Greetings
>> >
>> > I'm finding myself occasionally drowning in information resulting in me
>> > trying to improve the connection between what I'm working on AND the
>> > information that I'm collecting.
>> >
>> > An example (followed by some questions).
>> >
>> > I'm into gardening/raising my own food (simplified for here!!).
>> >
>> > Create a directory 'gardening' .
>> >
>> > Inside 'gardening' notes for a particular year (each year in its own
>> > directory).
>> > Also in 'gardening' are directories for various crops 'potatoes'/'malus'
>> > (easier to say apples but I'm
>> >     including pears and and ).
>> > 'Potatoes' includes files (notes) some of which needs to be taken from
>> > something like a
>> >    diary/journal (rednotebook is my preferred tool at this point).
>> > 'Potatoes' includes directories like specific
>> > varieties/diseases/pests/fertilization/remedies.
>> > Further information like cooking/techniques for/health related/other uses
>> > (think distilling) as a
>> >    further level.

>> >
>> > This is all found in one project - - - - and I have projects - - maybe too
>> > many but things are what they are.
>> >
>> > I'm trying to find a way of connecting things.
>> >
>> > So when I find an idea that I can use for electronic control on movement
>> > that I can link that to irrigation and then back to the
>> > 'shrubs/trees/plants'.
>> >
>> > I would rather NOT have 10 different copies of the same information stored
>> > - - - wastes space - - - but I'm finding that looking for information that
>> > sometimes I have what I'm found but it was/is connected to a very different
>> > project.
>> >
>> > Dig some digging and hard links to directories are a no no (!!!!!!!!!) - -
>> > like forbidden.
>> >
>> > I could see hard links being useful for what I want where soft links are
>> > going to break (have had the joy of breaking some myself and causing myself
>> > all kinds of joy in the process).
>>
>> Hi,
>> I was going to propose file systems with hard and soft links
>> (which BTW break only if you yourself break them)
>> but as they are taboo the only other and far superior
>> system is to use paper and ink. This system showed resilience,
>> ease of use and hardware independence for the last 4000 years.
>> In conjunction with a physiological process better known as
>> learning which transforms your brain in the primary
>> storage for pointers to the information stored in
>> your papyrus rolls and allows endless recombination
>> of the inputted information to achieve what is called progress
>> through try and error (let's see what happens if principle).
>> In the end this process will make you a expert in the field of your
>> choice and your papyrus rolls will be saved in libraries
>> for the future generations to study (unless they use
>> only wikipedia and instead of studying they just
>> print them out wasting loads of paper with no
>> result at all).
>
> As I manage to collect some 25 to 40 GB of pdfs and notes in an
> 'normal' year paper lost its appeal some 30 years ago.
> I would likely need to hire a couple people just to store maintain and
> index the information - - - if you're paying I'll start tomorrow.
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Tito
>>
>> P.S.: I suggest for urban gardening: onions, peppers and cucumbers
>> they grow in almost every condition.
>> Tomatoes are very sensible to lots of diseases and lost their taste
>> long time ago in the process to be made solid red.
>> With avocado trees in pots I got mixed results,
>> with mango trees in pots this year is the first time
>> there is a good chance of eating some mangos.
>
> Don't know where you got the information that I'm urban but I can tell
> you that tomatoes plucked ripe from the vine - - - they have flavor and
> task quite different to what you purchase in your grocery - - - - I call
> those 'little rocks' - - - bugs my wife a lot but I really don't like them.
> Taste too much like straight cellulose!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Please do let me know if you're up for funding the needed help - - -
> I would think that some $250k a year for the next 25 years should do
> nicely.
>


A quick web search pulled up quite a few different solutions for document management and indexing.

https://www.linuxlinks.com/documentmanagementsystems/




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