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by stockkid 2850 days ago
My tip is to break down your knowledge into very small chunks and store them somewhere easily accessible and searchable. I have been looking for a solution for this, and that led me to build a system for myself and open source it [0].

In short, I find that writing them down every day in bite-sized chunks is most helpful. This method probably will not help you store non-texts such as movies, pictures, but for other mediums, it is great.

After about two years, the main benefits I find are:

* Bite-sized notes are easier to index and search for later

* We can easily share those notes with others when in a technical discussion etc, saving a lot of time

* We can do spaced-repetition on those notes easily because they are concise. (I wrote a short Go program to do this for me)

[0] - https://github.com/dnote/cli