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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: 0.223s | 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. rdtsc ◴[13 May 25 22:19 UTC] No.43978394[source]▶
A git repo with text files (markdown) with names as tags separated by underscores (foo_bar_baz.md). Edit those with emacs. Periodically commit to be able to browse it by date.

Search by file tags:

     ls *tag*
Search by contents:

     rg topic