| 1) reading lists in Goodreads and pinboard (moving to self-host that one, because the service isn't really stellar anymore sadly), watching lists in Letterboxd and Imdb along with sonarr/radarr, listening list is just my podcast subscriptions in Overcast with a smart playlist ordered so that the most "important" ones are on top. 2) Obsidian web clipper[0] and a Keyboard Maestro powered hotkey that opens up either my daily note with two taps or creates a new Second Brain note with three 3) When I need it. I'm pretty good at keeping an index in my head of stuff I've seen "sometime somewhere". By having everything in Obsidian I don't need to start searching browser/search engine histories to figure out what was that one site with that bit of knowledge. 4) Obsidian Second Brain. When I spend too much time (by feel) solving something, I spend a few minutes writing the solution down along with links to the sources I used. The solution is generalised so that it's not infringing on any employer copyrights. 5) Consistency and not bikeshedding about knowledge base systems too much. I've used Evernote (one of the OG Mythbusters recommended it like 15 years ago or something). The OCR system was a life-saver in a few occasions. Then they did some stupid Silicon Valley crap and I moved between OneNote (amazing if you have a laptop with a stylus), Emacs (org-mode bikeshedding took way too much time), Joplin (open source, but the storage format is meh), Notion (pretty and the DB stuff tickles my nerd brain the right way, but too slow for my needs) and maybe a few others. Now I've been using Obsidian daily for 6 months and even finally bought their Sync service, which works super fast - the free ones aren't bad and iCloud syncing works well too, but the official one is just that bit better. In the end it's just a bunch of files in a directory structure so I don't have to worry about vendor lock-in. Replacements Omnisearch, Templater and QuickAdd are the only essential plugins I need if I want to move to another platform. [0] https://stephango.com/obsidian-web-clipper |