In the long ago times of two months ago, I had dreaded the idea of re-licensing. Fortunately I found out that I would only need to take Technician instead of taking all three tests. However, I wanted to make sure I still had a hold of the information.

Enter Logseq

If you don't know what Logseq is, you may want to check out logseq.com for full detail. The summary is that it's a personal knowledge management, outliner, flashcard, whiteboard, link-rich, wiki-like tool. It is very powerful and often easy to use.

For my purposes, I decided to take the question pools and mangle them with UNIX text manipulation tools to get them into a format that Logseq would use to make flashcards. This was the start of what became my ham radio personal knowledge base notebook.

Instead of just plugging through the questions, I would find terms that I was hazy on and create links (adding [[]] around the word) or tagging them with a hashtag like #review. When you click a link or tag in Logseq it will take you to a page (whether you've explicitly created it or not) that has linked and unlinked references at the bottom. You can also get pretty graphs that use radial lines to give you a pretty picture of how pages relate to one another:

Sharing is Caring

Since I found (and continue to find) this useful, I decided to create a “starter pack” version. You can find it in my public git repository here.

If you find errors, or have suggestions, please feel free to let me know. My email address is chris @ mycallsign dot org, or on Mastodon at @af0cx@mastodon.hams.social.

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Update 1: I now have all three classes Logseq-ified. Logseq'd. However you call it: – https://git.af0cx.org/chris/Technician-Study – https://git.af0cx.org/chris/General-Study – https://git.af0cx.org/chris/Extra-Study

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Edit 1: Fixed the link to my Fediverse profile Edit 2: Actually made review a hashtag.

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