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Ask HN: How do you store the knowledge gained in a day?

65 points dennisy | 2 comments | 13 May 25 18:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.43s | source

Each day I (and I assume most knowledge workers, devs, creatives) read many articles, papers, code snippets, AI responses, discord messages etc.

At the end of the day some of this information is most likely lodged in your brain and the digital version can be discarded. However some of it should be retained manually in some system - or at least I feel it should.

What approaches do people use to consolidate and store this information to allow all tabs etc to be closed for the next work day?

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rich_sasha ◴[13 May 25 19:17 UTC] No.43976552[source]▶
Org mode.

I don't worry too much about the structure. So long as it's written down and backed up, it is searchable, and that's enough.

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1. dennisy ◴[13 May 25 19:48 UTC] No.43976905[source]▶
What sorts of things will you write? I am interested not just in the system but what you save.
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2. rich_sasha ◴[14 May 25 02:41 UTC] No.43980173[source]▶
Basically, anything and everything. Anecdotes. Who I spoke to and if they were nice or otherwise. Cool bits of technology I saw. How something works. What I did well, what I did wrong. I tend to include a date for context.

One file is just a time-ordered log where I put loose observations. Then for specific projects/themes I have separate files.

It is a bit of a mess, but it doesn't matter. It's a sort-of append only log.