What's your 2nd brain?
Hey devs,
I have seen recently a bunch of second brains (or knowledge management systems or gardens) built on gitbook, notion or obsidian. I loved and grew my own while navigating into those. I recollect a few that I found interesting:
- https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz
- https://github.com/costinEEST
- https://wiki.dzx.cz
- https://nkintc.gitbook.io
- https://publish.obsidian.md
- https://notes.abhinavsarkar.net
- https://wiki.stultus.in
- https://notes.eddyerburgh.me
- https://gordonbrander.com/pattern
- https://garden.anthonyamar.fr
and I thought, do indie hackers tend to have their own? What are some amazing resources you collect and have publicly available? Something that you are proud of?
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I use Notion for everything. I've tend to use several things but for me it only makes sense to have everything in Notion.
ALL of it :)
How it have been performance wise?, I gave it a try a few months back , but it got really slow for me.
Good. Really never had a problem but I am using it a lot but I don't have anything fancy in there. Just the basic tables (dbs) and not much else
Same here, and I believe a loooot of people also :D
I just use a self-hosted note-taking app: https://joplinapp.org/
Hey, I asked what's your 2nd brain, not exactly what tool are you using. Do you have it published anywhere?
Oh, sorry, I misread the post. I don't usually publicly post my notes as I mostly use them as a way to write down things that I have to remember later, so I just use the search function to find the things I'm looking for, but to be able to take advantage of the data you would have to know what you can search for.
Notion has been serving me well for the past months. Before that, I used Google Keep.
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disclosure: i'm maker, but we started working on this because we tried pretty much everything and couldn't stick with many tools because as we always missed something (data ownership, calendar integration, tech knowledge base etc.)
Hey, do you have public?
yes you can publish your knowledge base
I was disappointed by existing tools, so I am building my own.
ref: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/awesome-knowledge-management/
I'm using Mem.ai currently :)
Hey, I asked what's your 2nd brain, not exactly what tool are you using. Do you have it published anywhere?
My second brain lives in Protolyst. I may be a bit biased (co-founder), but I built the app to retain all of the key nuggets of information that I continued to lose whilst:
Connecting my code snippets with todos with customer feedback all in once place is dreamy 😍
I'm curious, why were you hoping for a publicly available second brain? I imagine these are rare, but collaborative second brains fascinate me. The goal should be to create something bigger than the single point of view, smarter than any single person 👪
Hey, I asked what's your 2nd brain, not exactly what tool are you using. Do you have it published anywhere?
As I mentioned, I use my second brain to hold:
There's more that I hold in my second brain too, but I don't want to bore you!
Unfortunately its not published publicly, sorry!
Thanks :D
I'm using Obsidian.
Been refreshing to use markdown and have it sync everywhere.
I mainly organize using the PARA method.
Slowly been introducing plugins to extend the functionality which has been really fun to play with for a dashboard.
For tasks I put everything in Things.
Hey, I asked what's your 2nd brain, not exactly what tool are you using. Do you have it published anywhere?
Ahh, gotcha. No, I don't publish directly from my PKM.
However what I do publish – which starts in my PKM – is on my personal website https://michaelsoolee.com
Love it. I didn't know PARA and enjoyed the transparency of the "Work with me"
https://www.thinktastic.com is a really cool tool for knowledge workers in specialized fields to get "just in time learnings" curated and extracted from very long and complex documents.
Depending on how I think of a project, my notes might end up in the maybe-older-than-you version-controlled archive of text files, a few archives of Markdown files, and---basically a riff on the Markdown files---an archive of notes in the original Boost Note format. I also write a blog, which is more Markdown.
The portability is important to me, in these cases. I could move things into database-driven apps or remote services, but I'm old enough to have been through something like a dozen "I need this data, but the software to read it no longer exists" incidents. So for me, everything needs to be human-readable, local, and under version control, in case something goes wrong.
Because I didn't like the direction of Boost Note and had to use a laptop that didn't have the oomph for another Electron app, I ended up rigging up a lighter-weight replacement. The replacement will probably need its own replacement, at some point, since it doesn't look like the framework I used is ever going to move forward. It works for now, though.
And because I finally realized that (quick count in my head) six or so different repositories are difficult to wrangle, I also wrote myself a background process to index and search the files. It's missing a few pieces that I want to add to make the results clearer, but it helps coordinate the entire mess pretty well, and gives me a nice base if I want to draw visualizations.
Yes, that's not really centraliced and all very "all over the place", but it works for me. Every few months I go down the rabbit hole and check what's new, but I usually go back to this old and trusted system
My second brain is the WBE Community. I use it to ask for feedback, new ideas and tools :D
I've always just used plain text notes edited in emacs. When I went indie I picked up org-mode for structuring journal entries, todos etc. Subsequently I built https://braintool.org to unify my browser based resources with the text notes. I've been getting some pretty good feedback on it recently.
You can see a demo of various plain text integrations here: https://braintool.org/2022/01/28/Browser-based-Productivity-and-pkm-with-emacs-org-mode-LogSeq-and-BrainTool.html
My knowledge management system consists of Notion+Readwise+Pocket. If Readwise would support Coda, I'd switch from Notion to Coda.
That's a nice one, Instead of Pocket I just Telegram to myself lol
Well, that's definitely the more cost aware solution :D
40,000+ words worth of ramblings in two markdown files 😂 would not recommend
Personally I enjoy and use Obsidian, but not their publish functionality. More for my personal knowledge base. Is that what you meant by second brain?
Yes, used Chrome Bookmarks since the start, but later moved to Notion like 3 years or so.
I didn't get the chance to try Obsidian, not that I need it either.
Is your knowledge base, public by any chance?
I have heard many good things about Notion and know quite a few people who use it as well. I haven't tried it though since I already use Obsidian.
It isn't public, but that is most probably fortunate since I doubt it would be of any use to anyone else. Except for maybe the notes on books that I have listened to, but even there you'll find much better summaries and notes elsewhere.
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