![]() ![]() ![]() As a serious knowledge worker intent on making this work for the next 40-60 years of my life, I’m quite happy paying $5-20 a month for something that is going to last that I don’t have to maintain myself. Notably lacking among these desirables is the idea that the notetaking service should be free. (Nice to have) Image and File storage: Being able to store arbitrary images and files freely without friction/consideration of cost would be nice, but in practice i’m so word- and resource-heavy that this has not actually come up as a pain point in the last 2 months.Publish with Search: If you are Git and Markdown based, then GitHub does view and search fine, but the navigation, display and search experience could probably be improved with custom CSS, link previews, backlink lists, Table of Contents tracking, and so on.(Nice to have) Graph visualization of links, although I have my doubts about how useful this is in practice.Bidirectional Linking: truly the feature popularized by Roam - I think networked thought is ideal and some of the ways that people use it are truly mindblowing (I’m not personally there yet).To some extent, if I use Markdown, then that can be a Narrow Waist interface where I can use apps that speak Markdown and Git, like GitJournal. Offline-ready Mobile app: Again, a friction point - I have ideas in the shower, on a walk, or otherwise away from the computer, so I need a mobile app.Git: I’m inherently interested in explorable histories of ideas (for history surfing/idea archaeology), and Git is the only version control system worth considering these days.(Nice to have) WYSIWYG Markdown writing experience like Typora.And if you wish to render notes publicly from Notion, keep in mind even expert programmers face a lot of hurdles because Notion is not an API first company (dev experience will always be a second class citizen). If you do this right your notes should outlive Notion. If your editor uses proprietary data formats it will be hard to migrate/render.Notion’s blocks are great until you try to select text or move around blocks and it doesn’t do what you want. If your editor gets in the way then you are paying cognitive overhead.Markdown based: Friction slows down your speed of thought.One “monorepo” for all your notes frees you/your readers from having to remember where you put your notes + makes related notes more discoverableĪs I reached the limits of SimpleNote/Notion/GitHub, I thought about these factors for my next notetaking tool:.Having a Digital Garden to grow drafts in public with lower expectations than blog/social media is inspiring to others - aka Working with the Garage Door Up.Creating reusable/referenceable Open Source Knowledge helps you compound knowledge work + save keystrokes when helping people.Learning in Public increases your Luck Surface Area. ![]() Here my focus is on convincing you why your S.B. I’ll assume you already know the benefits of Building a Second Brain - I was a mentor for the course if you need a quick intro. You can check out the repo, sw-yx/brain or the published Obsidian site Why a -Public- Second Brain? Two months ago I moved my notes to Obsidian, and I’ve been fairly happy with the result. I’ve also considered Evernote, Joplin and Roam and its less culty competitors Foam and Athens. For focused topics, I have a long history of making markdown repos on GitHub accumulating thousands of stars. I’ve gone through many versions of notetaking systems in the past decade, from literal “in memory” storage, to writing cheatsheets, to blogging everything publicly, to storing private notes in OneNote, then SimpleNote, then Notion. ![]()
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