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by cborenstein 1076 days ago
Thanks for sharing --

> More importantly, the process of adding to and maintaining the knowledge base felt more burdensome than beneficial

I wonder if being able to recollect things later in an organized way may not be worth the effort for you.

Something I've found is that I really don't need a robust personal knowledge base. My goal is to do my work well (and taking notes to support this is definitely valuable). Building a personal knowledge base doesn't support this goal and has a more unclear value-prop, so it's a drag to keep up with.

Wrote an opinion piece on this https://www.stashpad.com/blog/you-probably-dont-need-a-knowl...

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Right, I've always found the value in organizing and writing notes is that it forms better memories from which to recollect.

Most of my writing (other than a few references or short-term scratch pads) is "write once, read never".

Pretty soon if not already, we should be able to write in any written form and have a language model search it for us using fuzzy search terms, as well as make inferences based on the text.