Use KISS for saving and finding semi-important stuff
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@scottalanmiller said:
For stuff at home, @dominica and I maintain a wiki just for our household. We track all of the things around the house there. Anything that needs to be documented we just toss it in there. Super easy. Home repairs, info from shops, when to pay our bills... just anything. We use MediaWiki. It's been amazingly valuable. Really help to make us organized and makes for a really great "IT at Home" project too.
And it isn't one of those "doing IT for the sake of it" things, it is really valuable and we run it like a production system because we really are end users on it.
Are you running a server at home for this? or some rented webspace (or NTG's left overs - lol)
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@Dashrender we don't run any servers inside of the house anymore except for my Netgear ReadyNAS which I use for all of my in home media and backups. Outside of that there are no services or storage inside the house. Especially things like this, I want them available should I not be home, the house is offline, we move, etc. Very mission critical to our home life.
In my case, we hose them on NTG's infrastructure because NTG provides that for staff. But for people who lack that I would look at a small server on Rackspace or Azure. Low cost and very enterprise.
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2013/08/doing-it-at-home-good-documentation/
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I use Pinterest. Not an obvious choice, but it more or less works for me.
Interesting, but that seems like it would make sense. Outside of IT, Pinterest is kind of designed for that.
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A simple wiki is a very nice option. Simple to edit, easy to store lots of data. And very useful for more broad uses.
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Thank heaven for MediaWiki. I love our wiki, and it's so easy for 2 (or more) people to access and edit the information there. We would be crazy disorganized without it.
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I have never setup a Media-wiki, I have used them many. This would be a great thing to have in my back pocket. Any resources here to teach that to someone?
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@TechieChick said:
I have never setup a Media-wiki, I have used them many. This would be a great thing to have in my back pocket. Any resources here to teach that to someone?
@scottalanmiller wrote a one line installer for it a few months ago... digs around - where is that link
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@Dashrender that was for LEMP. I wouldn't use that
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@Dominica said:
Thank heaven for MediaWiki. I love our wiki, and it's so easy for 2 (or more) people to access and edit the information there. We would be crazy disorganized without it.
It really has been awesome. You would not think that getting your wife to use a wiki for household items would be easy but once I set it up and put in a little bit of data she has been all over it and uses it even more than I do. It's really ideal for household management.
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@scottalanmiller said:
It really has been awesome. You would not think that getting your wife to use a wiki for household items would be easy but once I set it up and put in a little bit of data she has been all over it and uses it even more than I do. It's really ideal for household management.
Umm... excuse me? Why would it not be easy to get your wife to use a wiki?
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@Dominica ha ha, but seriously, it's not the kind of thing you can normally convince your spouse to use. And admit it, you were a bit skeptical when I proposed it.
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@Dominica said:
@scottalanmiller said:
It really has been awesome. You would not think that getting your wife to use a wiki for household items would be easy but once I set it up and put in a little bit of data she has been all over it and uses it even more than I do. It's really ideal for household management.
Umm... excuse me? Why would it not be easy to get your wife to use a wiki?
I think he means wives in general. You are special though, in a good way.
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@ajstringham
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@ajstringham said:
@Dominica said:
@scottalanmiller said:
It really has been awesome. You would not think that getting your wife to use a wiki for household items would be easy but once I set it up and put in a little bit of data she has been all over it and uses it even more than I do. It's really ideal for household management.
Umm... excuse me? Why would it not be easy to get your wife to use a wiki?
I think he means wives in general. You are special though, in a good way.
I think you might need to watch out @Dominica you might have a stocker
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Awwww @ajstringham thinks I'm special
Okay, I admit that I wanted to make sure that the wiki wasn't going to be a ton of extra work for me. Sometimes @scottalanmiller has these ideas and proposes them with "and it will be great experience for you to work on this" so hence my perpetual caution whenever Scott has a brilliant new idea.
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@Dominica said:
Awwww @ajstringham thinks I'm special
Okay, I admit that I wanted to make sure that the wiki wasn't going to be a ton of extra work for me. Sometimes @scottalanmiller has these ideas and proposes them with "and it will be great experience for you to work on this" so hence my perpetual caution whenever Scott has a brilliant new idea.
You are.
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@ajstringham Awww if you were here I'd grab a stool to stand on and hug you around the waist
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@Dominica said:
@ajstringham Awww if you were here I'd grab a stool to stand on and hug you around the waist
You're not that short! Or is it I'm not that tall? No, it's you're not that short. LOL
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@Dominica said:
Awwww @ajstringham thinks I'm special
Okay, I admit that I wanted to make sure that the wiki wasn't going to be a ton of extra work for me. Sometimes @scottalanmiller has these ideas and proposes them with "and it will be great experience for you to work on this" so hence my perpetual caution whenever Scott has a brilliant new idea.
Out of curiosity, and if it is personal ignore my question, but what do you guys use the wiki to manage? Bill and expenses? Scheduling? Just trying to get an idea of how we could use this tool in our house.
