[kwlug-disc] Documenting your digital life

[Doug Moen]

I use plain ASCII text files and vi. The oldest notes currently accessible date to the 1990's, and the file format somehow hasn't been deprecated. More recently, I've upgraded to UTF-8 text files and vim, and there was zero drama or backward compatibility problems in the upgrade.

On Tue, May 20, 2025, at 2:02 PM, John Van Ostrand wrote:
> 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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