Has anyone figured out a good way to remember information sources?
A good friend of mine is falling down the Xitter to Red Hat pipeline and it has me thinking about how to get better at remembering sources of information or, hell, just remember certain topics long enough to research them thoroughly enough to be able to speak at least somewhat eloquently about the topic.
Fairly confident the friend is going to follow the path he's going to follow, so I'm not looking for advice on that.
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Take notes and organize them. There are many ways to this. Obsidian is worth trying.
I have literally started to add every thought in my head into obsidian and already it feels like someone could probably recreate my mind from it lol
The best ADHD feature is the ability to link notes, even ones that done exist. So if you have a really specific idea about some topic you can just write it down, link it to the topic, and then get back to whatever task you were doing when the thought arose. Then when you have time you can find the idea again as long as you remember the topic or topics you linked it too
Came to say just that. Obsidian is great, I use it to keep information I've looked up, like how to set a few of my more obscure watches, to the hot tub chemicals, to projects I'm working on and planning
Logseq (log-seek) is open source alternative
That's a good idea, I do use Obsidian for TTRPG notes
It really helps but I kinda forget to use it or are not motivated enough to write thoughts down. And the key really lies in just starting without thinking too much about the structure.
The key is to just write down anything stupid and useless or funny thing. First you have to learn to write notes. Then you learn how to write good notes.
“How can xitter lead someone to RHEL?”
“Ooooh I get it”
Real leftist use Arch, obviously.
I've been testing out Notally (available on f-droid). Seems like a solid replacement. Doesn't have the cloud backup of Keep, though (I don't think).
I have NotallyX installed, to be specific. I finally dug into the settings, and it does support automatic backups to a local folder. So you would need to pair it with a cloud backup app, but the good news is cloud backup should be very doable! Looks like you can manually export as well.
I just went to look for it, and found there's a fork called NotallyX. It's "extended", whatever that means.
https://github.com/PhilKes/NotallyX
It, too, is on FDroid.
It does seem to have a more features, and otherwise looks very similar. For instance, you can export individual notes to various file formats. Text, pdf, and more.
Notally itself just crashed the very first time I tried adding an image to a note and then deleted that image.
Nextcloud along with it's notes app is good enough
Lol. Nextcloud is the closest I found to google drive and notes app. There are much better clients but most of them don't have sync.
Your questions sounds like a problem obsidian.md and similar solutions could solve.
Either keeping documentation or using a app like hoarder to add links to
Get them to subscribe to the Tangle newsletter. There are podcasts and videos too. It's designed to get people out of their news bubble and it avoids clickbaity hyperbole.
Had never heard of tangle before I really like them so far thanks for the recommendation!
Just ask ChatGPT and then verify it's answer. It's great at it.
Just save stuff with GoodLinks or whatever web page clipping app you can find that works for you to be able to review and retain content + sources
I use Pocket, Zotero, and Obsidian. I save news articles from my RSS feeds and social media to Pocket, and assign them tags. Journal articles I find get saved to Zotero, which saves a PDF too, if available. Both Pocket and Zotero have plugins to sync with Obsidian, which I also use for general notetaking and as a personal journal.
Everyone here has said good ideas, I would add that using RSS to subscribe to feeds can also be a nice way to keep up to date.