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Rhapso ◴[] No.41878048[source]
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.

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PoignardAzur ◴[] No.41878098[source]
> zettelkasten memory prosthetic

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

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Rhapso ◴[] No.41878180[source]
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.

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1. Terr_ ◴[] No.41884110[source]
That reminds me (heh) of a bit from one of my favorite book-series, involving someone recovering from a kind of brain injury.

> “It’s been so long since I had to [use a holo-map], it didn’t even occur to me. It’s like an eidetic chip you can hold in your hand. It even remembers things you never knew before. Wonderful!” He unfastened his jacket, and pulled a second device from an inner pocket, a perfectly ordinary, though obviously best-quality, business audionote filer. “She gave me this, too. It cross-references everything automatically by key word. Crude, but perfectly adequate for ordinary use. It’s nearly a prosthetic memory, Miles.”

> The man hadn’t had to even think about taking notes for the past thirty-five years, after all. What was he going to discover next, fire? Writing? Agriculture? “All you have to remember is where you put it down.”

> “I’m thinking of chaining it to my belt. Or possibly around my neck.”

-- Memory (1996) by Lois McMaster Bujold

That last "audionote filer" is looking increasingly practical in real-life, cross-referencing and all.

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2. ForOldHack ◴[] No.41893408[source]
I had dinner with Ted Nelson. He took out a voice tape recorder and said "Note to self:..."

Dumbeldore touched a wand to his head, pulled out a thought and put it in his pesisive.

The book 'Memory' is optional reading for a year long class in development. I still get things out of it.