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65 points dennisy | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.209s | 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. tpoacher ◴[] No.43988525[source]
Things I don't want to (try and) remember? Forward to a telegram group I own, aptly called "my nerd drawer". I have friends on that group too, so they get to see the nerdy stuff I 'save'.

Things I do want to remember? I make notes on anki. Note not all of this is for the memorization function intended by anki. Some of it is just (linked) references. So in some way, I've become very adept in using anki in the same way others use obsidian, for instance, and have come to prefer it. Most of it is indeed things I want to keep relatively fresh and do spaced repetition on though. Every single time I didn't invest the time to convert something I wanted to remember into an anki note I've come to regret it.