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

65 points dennisy | 1 comments | 13 May 25 18:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | 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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willidiots ◴[13 May 25 19:27 UTC] No.43976664[source]▶
I use a flat text file called "notes" on my desktop, and I leave it open in Sublime Text in a corner of my second screen. Periodically I throw a datestamp in there as a reference point. For generic "stuff that should be retained manually" it works well - easy to add to, easily searchable.
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dennisy ◴[13 May 25 19:47 UTC] No.43976888[source]▶
Could you provide a small example of what you may add in a day and how you later search it?
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1. QuasiGiani ◴[13 May 25 21:31 UTC] No.43977958[source]▶
Any thing at all.

Ctrl-F.