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Farticus - Visual Studio Marketplace[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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For when the dog's not around to blame 
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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I have a greyhound; their emissions are lethal.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Call me when they get the smell right. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Someone has brought my dad back from the dead?! 
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Written by Mads Kristensen
OK. The name sounded familiar. Sure enough:
Mads Kristensen is a Principal Program Manager on the Visual Studio team
I'm all for fun and games, but IMO a guy in his position shouldn't be getting his name associated with these sorts of silly extensions, because you KNOW someone's going to comment that meanwhile, VS's endless stream of bugs is getting larger, not smaller. Once everything's addressed...then the PM for VS can write silly extensions.
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Mads has probably written more VS Extensions than anyone else (over 150) and also produced several tutorials on how to write them.
This probably started out as demo for how to capture build errors and do something and making a noise is slightly more interesting usual. Having seen some of Mads' tutorials, this extension probably only took him a couple of minutes to write as he uses templates for most of the boilerplate code.
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I have been keeping it on different file formats in a shared folder in my NAS, but I can't search easily for the information and recently I am thinking on intalling "mediawiki[^]" on my NAS to migrate all the information there and make it easier to navigate and search for the information.
I could keep technical manuals in PDF in the folders I am using now, but my notes and extra explanations there...
Do you use something similar? how do you manage it?
As always thank you in advance!
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I always used to keep a folder of tips as text files, and update them as needed - but have you considered posting them as Tips here? I have several of my text files as tips, and they are pretty easy for me to find, and who knows? Someone else might benefit as well.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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As a true OrinalGriff disciple, I keep my tips in text files so I can search them easily from Notepad++.
When I see interesting software I usually recommend it on Slant[^] where I can find it back under my profile.
Another option might be to use a knowledge-base-systems-for-personal-use[^]
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Sh*t, I've got disciples now?
How come I missed out on groupies and went straight to "nut cult leader"?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: "nut cult leader"?
I think the approved term these days is "influencer".
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Don't care! I want my groupies! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Groupies? From the cast here at the Lounge?
I don’t think you have thought this one through all the way!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Me: "Honey, I joined a cult and didn't know it!"
Lounge: "One of us, One of us, One of us..."
As for the OP question: Text file in cloud storage (Dropbox) as per my Cult leader, and I bookmark any useful web pages so that I know they helped when I inevitably google the problem again (and again etc.  )
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OriginalGriff wrote: but have you considered posting them as Tips here
I started doing that when it first became available but my one - two liners were criticized as being too small/simplistic, T&T seems to have devolved into a mini article suppository.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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caveat: I am as organized as a train wreck.
I keep copies of all projects in a NAS and on a partition on my system. For tip kinds of things, I create cleverly named text files as "commandsIwishIremembered.txt" and "stuffIlearned4blazor.txt" and keep them in the same directory. I do have some stuff I scanned into searchable pdf's but mostly do it the old way (I am old).
Since I run linux as my main system, I use the locate and grep commands. I am pretty sure the Windows search is more gooder.
Example: I have a Program.cs file that I just inserted the string //hereitislou. After updating the locate database (updatedb), to search all .cs files, I run:
locate -i *.cs |xargs grep -ls "//hereitislou"
and get:
/data/projects/mikesyslogserver/mikesyslogserver/Program.cs
I do the same thing on the NAS, either via the Shell or SSH.
(procuring organizing tools do not convert a disorganized person) 
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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What about OneNote?
I recently moved all my stuff stuff from TreeDBNotes to OneNote...TreeDBNote went out of business.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I love OneNote to death - but the not the free one. For years I have been trying to get a decent cataloguing system for my thousands of classical CDs, but nothing hit the spot, until I bit the bullet and scanned all the boxes back and front and then did an 'OCR all image text' on them. Now I can search and pull any CD* I want as the image name is the drawer, rack and position in the rack.
*I really should amend that to say 'any CD that I can still remember I've got'. 
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The free versions not too bad. I've not completely converted to it yet but will eventually.
If they sold OneNote separately, and not subscription I would probably purchase it.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Jumping in only to point out that Microsoft OneNote is free and does not require any "subscription" whatsoever. True, a Microsoft account is needed - but that is all.
OneNote for Windows and OneNote can be installed side by side. See here: https://i.imgur.com/pGElovQ.png[^]
OneNote for Microsoft 365 can be obtained here: Download OneNote[^]
Just my two cents.
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I have, and use the free version, we were talking about the paid version being subscription, etc..
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Interesting! How do you find the accuracy of OneNote's OCR?
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For my purposes, 'good enough'. With the front and the back scanned and OCRed, I have yet to have a search failure. If the front of the CD case is in a fancy script the results are poor, but invariably the normal lettering on the back is very accurate in most cases.
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I made up an Access DB for holding that type of information. Works nice for my needs, but would have to rework the design a bit to hold the filename for any local PDFs, since that hasn't been a consideration till now.
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