Using static websites for tiny archives

I convert content to markdown and relevant images and then store them in an obsidian vault. I self-sync it with syncthing. It has quickly become a rather effective zettelkasten memory prosthetic on my laptop and phone.

I also use google/facebook takeouts, reformat the results, and store+index all my human-facing correspondence in there. Text is cheap and I avoid most images. Its still under 200mb and instantly searchable with a nice UI and as a bunch of markdown files it is easily portable.

> zettelkasten memory prosthetic

You're really going to drop these three words without any context?

I was hit on the head a lot as a child. My memory isn't great, so I take a LOT of notes. Those notes and the writing/searching tools to use them are very literally a memory prosthetic.

Zettelkasten is a methodology of organizing a LOT of notes.

I index by topic, date and people involved. I can look up a friend and re-read every shared IM, email, and event I logged almost instantly. Faster than any website can. It's my own personal pile of papers future historians will be excited to find because they can actually read it.

One of my biggest frustrations is that most of my note-taking tools are not permitted in my workplace for security reasons. I have to keep all my notes on their infrastructure. I'm going to loose a chunk of my brain when I change jobs someday.