I have a few options to set-up my personal journal and I intend to journal my process of how to, what’s the practical way of writing it all down with writing everything down ?
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That’s the neat part, you don’t
Infrastructure as code, the code that is your homelab should be the documentation of it.
Infrastructure as code
Just some scripts and config files in external git at the moment but usually I just get my refrence form other VMs. Probably going with obsidian or other markdown editor and upload notes to somewhere if disaster strikes.
I use Joplin for my wiki/documentation tool. I like that it supports markdown and can be exported as markdown if needed. Also the variety of plugins is a plus.
Joplin organizes my life. Without it, I’d be lost. Like, for anything.
What size tires do I need to swap my bike? How did I configure my samba shares? How do I setup VFIO passthrough? What’s the name of that guy I hate at work? (Fuck you, Nick) How much did it cost to have the tree in my back yard removed? Can I see the invoice?
All these questions I can lookup and solve using my Joplin database. Without Joplin, life gets way harder.
Love Joplin
Mkdocs, grav
https://silverbullet.md/ and I may start using https://d2lang.com/ too.
Poorly.
Logseq
Obsidian with it’s folders/files in a location that gets duplicated to another drive by rsync.
I blog it. https://static.xtremeownage.com/
Read it(pun intended), it was cool.
self hosted git repository.
I setup gitea on my server and use it to track version changes of all my scripts.
And I use a combination of the wiki and .md (readme) files for howto’s and any inventory I’m keeping, like IP addresses, CPU assignments etc.
But mainly it’s all in .md formatted with markdown.
Document?
I keep everything in my brain.
Has its perks… no need to write things down.
But it’s easy to momentarily forget the little things that come with, say, reinstalling everything.
I intend to be like that every time but now it’s getting a little overwhelming.
I like to blog it sometimes. But I think the best spot is searching for what you’re trying to do, the posting on that forum. I’ll make these loooong detailed posts, edit them again and again, pics, obfuscated pastebin text, screen shots, the whole kit and caboodle. It usually helps others that way, and sometimes, m searching for a bit of code that I can’t remember and find my own post again. Ha! Ftw