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by trunc8 2317 days ago
Being doing this for years also, occasionally emailing to myself as a backup, mine is at nearly 60k lines.

Top tip is to add meta tags. I suffix them with a colon to help with searching. For example, the section containing my git notes begins with this line: Git notes: / Git: / Git commands: / Github: / Git bash:

And any time I search for something I didn't have a tag for, then I add a new one, even misspellings.

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Funny how similar this one it is to mine: I use tags surrounded by colons so I can attach a few of them and grep them easily (distinguishing them from normal text contents)

Ex. :label1:label2:labeln:

Any particular reason not to use hashtags? (except habit)