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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: 0.463s | 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?

1. beret4breakfast ◴[13 May 25 21:15 UTC] No.43977819[source]▶
I’ve been using obsidian for this for the past couple of years. I have lots of folders and notes for work projects along with notes for learning topics. I keep track of tasks and to do lists for me and people in my team (using #people/name tags).

I have specific updates notes for each project. I add a weekly header (via a template) in reverse chronological order. Pull the key updates into that (I also have a todo for each project that pulls in tasks from all files in that project subfolder - so picks up meeting actions)

I also put them all in a canvas so when I doing updates about projects they’re all in one place.

I do the same for people I manage so I can keep track of updates and todos when I’m meeting with them.

My go to start point is a daily not where I throw in new tasks (tagged to projects or people) and those get pulled into the corresponding project/person file.

Because it’s markdown with lots of plugins it helps me do things like diagrams (mermaid diagrams) etc and excalidraw/canvas for architecting/mind map style ideation.

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2. Jimpulse ◴[16 May 25 19:18 UTC] No.44008923[source]▶
Tags for people is great! I've mostly used them for topics and categorization.