I keep my ebooks(pdf and epub) on my home server(FreeBSD 14.3), I access them through NFS.
It is one dir called "ebooks" which contains several others dirs, one dir equals one category.
Determining what book belongs to which category was probably the most boring part.
All books have been renamed according to a specific syntax, no white space, no punctuation marks except dash and dot, and everything is in lowercase.
I did that with sysutils/p5-File-Rename, be careful with it though, make a good use of dry-run option because things can quickly turn quite wrong (regex power).
To search a book I made a shell script that basically fuzzy search (by using /usr/bin/find and textproc/fzy) through the ebook dir according to an argument passed to it, and opens it either with graphics/zathura if it's a pdf or deskutils/foliate if it's an epub.
Regarding text files, they are mostly my wiki, my draft, my code sometimes, my snippets, etc ... basically every thing I write goes into my notes at some point.
They are in my home in one dir called "notes".
To manage them, I made a script that relies again on textproc/fzy, with it I write/edit/delete/search/list/show notes.
In order to have some categories(kind of) every note name has a prefix, which help me to make a search later.
In the past I used deskutils/zim or vimwiki to manage my notes, but I needed something simpler so I wrote my own thing, since I have no regrets.
It is one dir called "ebooks" which contains several others dirs, one dir equals one category.
Code:
ebooks/shell
ebooks/bsd
ebooks/web
...All books have been renamed according to a specific syntax, no white space, no punctuation marks except dash and dot, and everything is in lowercase.
I did that with sysutils/p5-File-Rename, be careful with it though, make a good use of dry-run option because things can quickly turn quite wrong (regex power).
To search a book I made a shell script that basically fuzzy search (by using /usr/bin/find and textproc/fzy) through the ebook dir according to an argument passed to it, and opens it either with graphics/zathura if it's a pdf or deskutils/foliate if it's an epub.
Regarding text files, they are mostly my wiki, my draft, my code sometimes, my snippets, etc ... basically every thing I write goes into my notes at some point.
They are in my home in one dir called "notes".
To manage them, I made a script that relies again on textproc/fzy, with it I write/edit/delete/search/list/show notes.
In order to have some categories(kind of) every note name has a prefix, which help me to make a search later.
Code:
notes/wiki.mystuff1
notes/wiki.mystuff2
notes/wiki.mystuff3
notes/code.hello1
notes/code.hello2
notes/text.blabla1
...In the past I used deskutils/zim or vimwiki to manage my notes, but I needed something simpler so I wrote my own thing, since I have no regrets.
