[TUHS] Document management in Unix, back in the day?

[Kevin Bowling]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 10:02 AM Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today I bit the bullet and dropped my many articles and electronic
> documents related to my technical explorations into Zotero. I was tired of
> constantly having to remember where the documents were located and I wanted
> to be able to curate them better (I tried git for a while, back when, but
> I'm not a fan of non-text data in my repos, and it wasn't really much
> better than the base file system approach). I've been using Zotero for
> years now, for academic works, but not for technical works unrelated to my
> research. I realized the man-years of effort to clean up the entries that I
> had created in about 30-40 seconds of exciting drag and drop, just about
> the time I deleted them from their original locations. I think the work
> will pay off in due time, but we'll see.
>
> Then I thought, surely, I'm not the first person to have had this
> problem... it occurred to me that y'all must have faced this very problem,
> a few years in, back in the late 70's, early 80's. That is, document
> management. What did you do, variously, considering both text and non-text?
>
>
Emacs org-mode comes to mind


> Will
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