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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: 0.277s | 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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eightys3v3n ◴[13 May 25 19:23 UTC] No.43976624[source]▶
I use a combination of Obsidian notes and Confluence.

Obsidian is a not-very-organized mess unfortunately; I still haven't figured this out but it's good enough for me to usually find things I remember. Confluence is organized as such https://docs.divio.com/documentation-system/. This works great.I always know where to put something and where to find it again later.

I also don't keep tabs open, I write things on a Todo list in Obsidian. Then at the beginning and end of the day I organize it; finishing small things like "record this", prioritizing, and moving project specific tasks to a page just for that project.

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input_sh ◴[13 May 25 19:58 UTC] No.43977024[source]▶
Honest suggestion: do not worry about where to put it, worry about what you will type into the searchbar when you half-remember it 2 years later.

No file structure is ever gonna beat a good searchbar, adjust your own notes accordingly. I completely hid the file explorer. If I need to cluster things together, I use very specific key words at the top of the file (think: #Parent/Child), they're far more flexible than a file system.

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1. eightys3v3n ◴[13 May 25 22:35 UTC] No.43978514[source]▶
I have been exploring using tags in file properties instead of a folder layout. Just so I can pull things like they are a person, they worked for this company. Or I'm only looking for project docs, or article summaries. I just haven't wholesale moved so I'm getting the disadvantages of both approaches :p

I generally think you're right though so I am moving away from folders. Especially when the notes are raw text (markdown) and can be searched by anything effectively.

I am also interested in graph searching but I haven't used it yet.