[alexpetralia]

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I have a fairly straightforward "personal knowledge management" (PKM) methodology.

1. Capture: every interesting idea that I think up or read is immediately stored in Google Keep (on mobile or laptop). It can be very rough at this point, the goal is simply to not forget.

2. Transcribe & Organize: every weekend, I go through the notes I accumulated during the week. It tends to be between 10 and 30 notes. Sometimes the note is "read this article" or "catch up on all newsletters", so understanding a single note can take over an hour. On some tough weekends the process takes an entire day, but that is invariably a day where I feel like I learned a ton. Once the note is cleaned up (transcribed), I feel like I understand it. At this point I rarely forget it - it has been absorbed into my brain. The final step here is "categorizing" the note. I classify it using OneNote with tabs like "Clinical psychology" (nested under "Psychology") or "Investment management" (nested under "Finance") or "Math" or "Physics". This way, in the future, I don't have a million notes scattered around, but one clear place I know where to look. On average, this process takes 2-4 hours per weekend. I never accumulate bookmarks, Google Keep notes or unread emails more than a week to prevent existential dread.

3. Revisit: generally, people recommend you revisit your notes from time to time. I almost never do this. But if I ever am thinking about "Marketing" or "Sociology", I have an immense, high SNR repository of everything I've ever found valuable on the topic. I've done this for software interviews and it's been incredibly helpful.

Overall, I attribute this system to making me much smarter. It has been an invaluable investment.

[Natales]

I like the idea of daily notes even better when you combine them with your todo lists at the same time. That concept is called interstitial notes [0], and it's used in several software tools like Roam Research [1]. I use Drift [2] which has a interstitial notes plugin which has proven to work very well for me.

[0] https://nesslabs.com/interstitial-journaling

[1] https://roamresearch.com/

[2] https://akhater.github.io/drift/

[mattalbie]

This is also what org-mode[0] does.

My files are 'logbook', 'life', 'project-1', 'project-2', etc. At any time I can hit a key and capture an idea/meeting to any of those places, and as I'm taking notes I can mark anything as a todo and schedule/deadline them. In the 'agenda' I can see a single overview of all my todo items, and my schedule, from all my notes.

I've tried a lot of systems (paper, apps, cli notes, etc) and org-mode clicks in a way nothing else has for me.

[0]: https://orgmode.org

[vmarsy]

Same system, except for step 1 I simply email [e-mail] [1] from gmail and it goes in the "Quick Notes" section.

I like it especially when it's a single URL as OneNote automatically appends a snapshot/screenshot of the page in the note itself, so even if coming back to it much much later, less risk of the original webpage being 404 not found.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-email-to-send...

[nosmokewhereiam]

Google Keep has a limit with how large notes can be, and how many unarchived notes can dictate app performance.

It's neat you simply decided to use it to hold on to things for about a week, prefering instead to store them in OneNote (or anything you want), a more stable product. Thanks for this advice!

[varrock]

This sounds like a good idea if you are on top of things. I was going to push back by saying it almost sounds like a chore, but a lot of the reason notes are jotted down is in fact to learn. So this process makes a lot of sense in retrospect.