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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Personal Knowledge Base using StackOverflow Clone

A personal knowledge base can be a solution to properly manage your technical issues and solutions. I find myself encountering the same questions or issues again and again but still having to find for the solution. Keeping them it in some searchable Note-taking Application is not so ideal because I usually have no time to arrange these notes. There are even technical issues that can be addressed by different solutions depending on the scenario, so how do we keep track of them easily? I think, the StackOverflow model is just perfect for this. You get to register an issue but rephrasing it as a question. You add the solution that worked as an Answer. The next time you encountered the same problem, you can refer to the same written question and add some comments to the previous solution or propose another solution. There are numerous StackOverflow clones available, but I am limited to those written in PHP so I chose Question2Answer.

Question2Answer
Aside from using tags to organize the entries, categories can also be used as a high-level way of grouping the entries. I usually vote down those solutions that no longer worked for me instead of deleting them. Question2Answer is completely theme-able and several future improvements and feature can be expected. It does not use Ajax extensively, yet. It also has a modular design where developers can write plugins like editors.

Check their demo site!

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