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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: 0.305s | 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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parliament32 ◴[13 May 25 23:34 UTC] No.43979069[source]▶
You don't, because information hoarding is only slightly less bad than real-life hoarding.

Be honest with yourself: other than the occasional search, when is the last time you referred to notes you took X years ago? And for the search-cases, how outdated was that information? Is the sequence of commands you painstakingly saved a decade ago for how to rebuild an array in megaraid really relevant anymore? Could you not have just, ya know, just googled it next time you needed it? Is your written-out explanation for how heat pumps work from that time you were re-doing your home heating system really useful.. when you can just have a conversation with Gemini about it now?

Less is more.

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1. justinrubek ◴[14 May 25 14:48 UTC] No.43985208[source]▶
I don't think that is reasoning in itself for not holding on to data. Do I refer to old notes? Not as much as I'd like, but it's not because the information isn't useful. It's that it isn't properly accessible. Our search technology isn't up to par yet. I have a lot of things I'd love to just google again, but they are lost to time. I could have a conversation with gemini, but where does it pull the information from? Less is not more.