CLOSED: [2014-08-10 Sun 12:55] SCHEDULED: <2014-08-10 Sun> :PROPERTIES: :CREATED: [2014-08-10 Sun 12:27] :ID: 2014-08-10-other-peoples-IT-setup :END: :LOGBOOK: - State "DONE" from "DONE" [2022-01-12 Wed 17:50] - State "DONE" from "DONE" [2021-11-22 Mon 15:43] - State "DONE" from "DONE" [2017-12-08 Fri 13:54] - State "DONE" from "DONE" [2014-08-17 Sun 13:07] - State "DONE" from "NEXT" [2014-08-10 Sun 12:55] :END: This is a constantly updated list of links where people are describing their personal hardware/software setup which I found interesting. ---------- To be complete, I also want to link my own resources: [[id:2014-08-09-personal-setup][My personal set-up]], [[id:apps-I-am-using][software I am using]], [[https://github.com/novoid][tools I wrote]], [[id:2014-05-09-managing-digital-photographs][how I manage my digital files using tags and folders]], and you might also want to look out for my other blog posts tagged with "[[id:tags-pim][pim]]". The dates reflect the days when I added the entries. Newest entries are at the bottom: - 2014-08-10: http://usesthis.com/interviews/ and [[id:2014-08-09-what-do-people-use][my blog post about it]] - very interesting (and famous) folks talking about their setup - a *great* source of inspiration! - 2014-08-10: [[id:2014-12-03-emacs-chat][I was interviewed]] for [[http://sachachua.com/][Sacha Chua]]'s [[http://sachachua.com/blog/category/podcast/emacs-chat-podcast/][Emacs Chat series]] - video podcasts, more or less Emacs-related only - 2014-08-10: After-[[http://glt14.linuxtage.at/][GLT14]]-session 2014-04-06: show-and-tell (German only) - [[https://realraum.at/wiki/doku.php?id=show_tell2014][brainstorming and notes]] - [[https://guckes.titanpad.com/24][TitanPad notes]] - some topics: http://www.leanpub.com, [[http://orgmode.org][Org-mode]], [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Magit][magit]], [[http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dstat.html][dstat]], [[http://meldmerge.org/%0A][meld]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux][Tmux]], [[http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/compare/#statistics][PDF comparison using ImageMagick]], PDF debugging, [[https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page][BitMessage]], [[http://www.atoptool.nl/][atop]] - 2014-08-10: [[http://doc.norang.ca/][Bernt Hansen]] and his [[http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html][famous "Organize Your Life In Plain Text"]] - excellent source for [[http://orgmode.org][Org-mode]] users - 2014-08-11: [[http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/08/08/What-we-are-using-org-mode-for/][Usage of Org-mode in the Kitchin research group]] - 2014-08-17: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuS-3HSnpq4][Linus Torvalds gives a tour of his office]] - he is using a walking desk at one mile per hour - his old desk is cluttered with "old technology" - he reads emails in his web browser - in his office he doesn't like the sun - 2014-08-31: show-and-tell (German) - [[http://realraum.at/wiki/doku.php?id=show_tell20140831][brainstorming and notes]] - [[https://events.titanpad.com/21][TitanPad notes]] - 2014-11-28: show-and-tell (German) - https://metalab.at/wiki/2014-11-28_Show_and_Tell - https://events.titanpad.com/33 - 2014-12-03: Sacha Chua describing how she organizes information in Org-mode files - http://sachachua.com/blog/2014/12/can-improve-organize-notes-org-mode/ - 2015-05-21: Michael Kofler explaining the software he uses with Kubuntu 15.04 GNU/Linux (German) - 2015-08-05: [[http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/2521][Karl Vogel]] about organizing his files - article from 2005 - focus on tools within UNIX/Linux command-line - 2015-08-10: [[http://tonyballantyne.com/][Tony Ballantyne]] is describing his setup for writing novels using Emacs/Org-mode: [[http://www.tonyballantyne.com/EmacsWritingTips.html][My Emacs Writing Setup]] - 2016-10-14: Charles-H. Schulz is no programmer although tech savvy. He describes how he is using [[http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2016/10/09/an-emacs-update/][Emacs in his daily work]]. - 2017-01-01: [[https://aqeelakber.com/2016/12/21/emacs-org-mode-journal-and-log/][Aqeel Akber describing his process of going paperless]]. - 2017-12-05: [[http://sachachua.com/blog/2017/12/external-brains-current-state/][External brains – current state –]] - Sasha Chua explaining her current setup and workflows for maintaining an external brain being a mother with being "distracted, often interrupted, and somewhat sleep-deprived". - 2019-11-05: [[https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html][Overview of search tools for your computer and phone, demo of using Emacs and Ripgrep as desktop search engine]] - 2021-11-22: [[https://hund.tty1.se/2021/11/21/my-desktop-november-2021.html][My desktop - November 2021 | Hund]] - 2022-01-12: [[https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure/][Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure—Stephen Wolfram Writings]] (from 2019-02-21) - Extremely detailed story how he organizes himself. I'm impressed. - 2023-11-11: [[https://defaults.rknight.me/][Hemispheric Views - App Defaults]] - *a collection/jump-page* with links to all sorts of lists of software used - 2023-11-20: [[https://www.kuketz-blog.de/kuketz-diese-systeme-geraete-nutze-ich-privat-bzw-geschaeftlich/][Kuketz: Diese Systeme/Geräte nutze ich privat bzw. geschäftlich ⋆ Kuketz IT-Security Blog]] If you found good resources as well or you want to share your setup, please drop me a line!