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btrettel comments on Instrumental Rationality Questions Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: AspiringRationalist 22 August 2015 08:25PM

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Comment author: btrettel 23 August 2015 08:22:01PM 1 point [-]

How useful have the text logs proved?

Assuming you use a terminal, do you also keep your history from that?

Comment author: David_Bolin 24 August 2015 12:59:12PM 2 points [-]

I use dtSearch for the text searching, which works pretty well. I don't have to use it constantly but it works well when I need it, e.g. finding something from a website I viewed a few months ago, when I no longer remember which site it was, or determining whether I've ever come across a certain's person's name before, finding one of my passwords after I've forgotten where I saved it, and so on. Also, sometimes I haven't been sure about which keywords to search for, but I was able to determine that something must have happened on a particular day, and then I've been able to use the screenshots directly to search for it, scrolling through them like through a movie.

I don't use a terminal. Currently I've been using two personal computers and have kept the history from both.