[kwlug-disc] Documenting your digital life

[John Van Ostrand]

As you've seen I've be chatting about VPNs and making use of my notes about
implementing the VPNs on my personal networks, which I store in a wiki. I
also store other things like serial numbers, product numbers for
consumables, etc.

Do you keep detailed notes of household information? If so, what do you use?

While I owned Net Direct I was developing documents on configuring systems
and storing those documents in a wiki. That way I could replicate things,
cut and paste to get consistent results and my staff could easily
replicate what I had done with new servers or clients. I included
descriptions of how and why things worked so they could come up to speed
quickly. It was used a lot and was essential to our quality control. I had
amassed hundreds of pages. It was so important to me part of the share sale
was that I can keep the set of documents. Now that it's 12 years old, it's
not that useful.

What I liked about wikis over other methods was that it kept revision
information so if changes were made would see what they were, revert, look
at full older version. We could also access it anywhere, including via SSH
tunnel from  a client's location. We also could export a page to PDF so we
created client-targeted how-tos.

I'd post a copy of the OpenVPN setup, except I'd have to a fair amount of
information.
-- 
John Van Ostrand
At large on sabbatical
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