![]() If you do this right your notes should outlive Notion. If your editor uses proprietary data formats it will be hard to migrate/render.Notion’s blocks are great until you try to select text or move around blocks and it doesn’t do what you want. If your editor gets in the way then you are paying cognitive overhead.Markdown based: Friction slows down your speed of thought.One “monorepo” for all your notes frees you/your readers from having to remember where you put your notes + makes related notes more discoverableĪs I reached the limits of SimpleNote/Notion/GitHub, I thought about these factors for my next notetaking tool:.Having a Digital Garden to grow drafts in public with lower expectations than blog/social media is inspiring to others - aka Working with the Garage Door Up.Creating reusable/referenceable Open Source Knowledge helps you compound knowledge work + save keystrokes when helping people.Learning in Public increases your Luck Surface Area.Here my focus is on convincing you why your S.B. I’ll assume you already know the benefits of Building a Second Brain - I was a mentor for the course if you need a quick intro. You can check out the repo, sw-yx/brain or the published Obsidian site Why a -Public- Second Brain? Two months ago I moved my notes to Obsidian, and I’ve been fairly happy with the result. I’ve also considered Evernote, Joplin and Roam and its less culty competitors Foam and Athens. For focused topics, I have a long history of making markdown repos on GitHub accumulating thousands of stars. I’ve gone through many versions of notetaking systems in the past decade, from literal “in memory” storage, to writing cheatsheets, to blogging everything publicly, to storing private notes in OneNote, then SimpleNote, then Notion.
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