Is there a tool where I can dump things I’ve read (articles, PDFs, notes), along with my own thoughts, and it helps me remember what matters—by summarising, surfacing key points, and linking ideas across everything?
Feels like a better way to use what I read. Does it exist? Would you use it?
@simon @diogosnows Yeah I love it but it’s usually to research a specific topic. I’m considering something where I can drop anything in and later be able to recall, reorganise, revisit some ideas (even the ones I forgot) and help me keep things organised.
Anything I read, or a letter I just received, docs, ideas etc
@diogosnows I don’t know about the summarization part, I guess LLM plugins exist, but otherwise your description matches my idea of what Obsidian is about. I haven’t used it myself but this guy @amerpie is constantly rooting for Obsidian in my stream. 😅
@ZeroOne https://mastodon.world/users/diogosnows https://mastodon.social/users/amerpie Yeah, I use obsidian a lot, including the daily notes, but those random thoughts or things I read sometimes go forgotten. I guess if I spent even more time organising I could figure out, but it’s hard sometimes to connect ideas across years…
I’m working on something and prototyping a couple of ideas, this may be the page for one (more soon)
Also sharing more on my channel soon
@ZeroOne https://mastodon.world/users/diogosnows https://mastodon.social/users/amerpie What do you use at the moment?
@diogosnows I don’t have a system like this, I guess I’m old-fashioned? If I, say, think of a blog post idea, I just try to get it written out quickly.
I guess to me the more interesting question than “what tool are you using? “ is “what exactly are you using it for?”.
@ZeroOne https://mastodon.world/users/diogosnows Totally! What sometimes gets to me are all those things I read and wanted to keep a quote note, or some random thought that goes forgotten even when it could be useful again.
I’m a software engineer and sometimes I bookmark a tool or framework I may need and I don’t always remember which to check.
I also like the potential to cross-pollinate ideas in unexpected ways that I may not have considered
@ZeroOne https://mastodon.world/users/diogosnows Oh, forgot to mention:
* for thinking I do prefer paper or a remarkable.
* I’d like an easier way to deal with emails and letters I may need to act in the future and don’t like spending time on 😅
@diogosnows In the early stages of the world wide web, before search engines were too good, I used to have a long list of bookmarks, neatly organized into folders. This just reminds me of that, but it is true that some gems are hard to just re-find with a search engine.
@diogosnows But it would be interesting to hear about a practical use case you’ve had with ideas cross-pollinating each other. :) I’d read a blog post or watch a video about that!
