[kwlug-disc] Documenting your digital life

[Mikalai Birukou]

For a household, I have, so far,

- folder with manuals (car, dishwasher, etc.),

- folder with pictures of wires in walls,

- folder with different used software, linux os's, truecrypt for 
windows, etc.

However simple this sounds, even these items were already useful.

I go with long descriptive names in folders and files.

> 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.