[cl42]

Does Zettelkasten count? I started using a more formal approach to note-taking and idea review and it's been fantastic in helping me generate ideas, hypotheses, topics to write essays on, and so on.

It requires a bit of rigour but it's helped my intellectual productivity immensely.

[gaws]

Do you index cards?

[cl42]

I search through them via text-based/exact matches. I also try to review the notes every once in a while + do use tagging.

I'd love to add an LLM layer onto this at some point but haven't done that yet.