Find what you meant, not what you typed. Private by architecture. Offline, but connected.
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What if that was enough to find it again?
Not organised. Not tagged. Just... there, waiting for the slower version of me to catch up.
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Not organised. Not tagged. Just... there, waiting for the slower version of me to catch up.
#PKM #SecondBrain
The sentence I needed most was one I didn't remember writing.
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The sentence I needed most was one I didn't remember writing.
#PKM #SecondBrain
Not metaphorically. Something stranger than that. The thing you wrote about your grandmother's kitchen and the thing you wrote about quitting your job... they share a thread you never consciously drew.
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Not metaphorically. Something stranger than that. The thing you wrote about your grandmother's kitchen and the thing you wrote about quitting your job... they share a thread you never consciously drew.
#PKM #SecondBrain
Some mornings I open old notes like letters from someone I used to be. Half the time, they know more than I do now.
Some mornings I open old notes like letters from someone I used to be. Half the time, they know more than I do now.
It's the tiredness of maintaining systems. Of remembering where you decided to remember things.
You're not overwhelmed by your thoughts. You're overwhelmed by the infrastructure you built around them.
It's the tiredness of maintaining systems. Of remembering where you decided to remember things.
You're not overwhelmed by your thoughts. You're overwhelmed by the infrastructure you built around them.
I started writing a note about something unrelated and ended up solving a problem I'd been circling for weeks. The thinking was already done. I just hadn't found it yet.
I started writing a note about something unrelated and ended up solving a problem I'd been circling for weeks. The thinking was already done. I just hadn't found it yet.
Not files about losing things. Passages where I was lost. In a city, in a conversation, in my own reasoning.
Not files about losing things. Passages where I was lost. In a city, in a conversation, in my own reasoning.
Not the word. The feeling.
Pages I'd written about kitchens. A paragraph about the sound of a specific door. A note from three years ago about how certain light makes me calm.
None of them contained the word "home."
Not the word. The feeling.
Pages I'd written about kitchens. A paragraph about the sound of a specific door. A note from three years ago about how certain light makes me calm.
None of them contained the word "home."
I couldn't have told you what I said. I barely remember recording it.
I couldn't have told you what I said. I barely remember recording it.
Forgot about it completely.
Eight months later I was writing a eulogy and couldn't find the right words. They were already there, waiting. I just didn't know where.
Forgot about it completely.
Eight months later I was writing a eulogy and couldn't find the right words. They were already there, waiting. I just didn't know where.
It's the tiredness of maintaining systems. Of being your own librarian, your own archivist, your own search engine.
You didn't sign up for that job. You just wanted to think clearly.
It's the tiredness of maintaining systems. Of being your own librarian, your own archivist, your own search engine.
You didn't sign up for that job. You just wanted to think clearly.
I left a half-finished thought in a note last March. Came back to it yesterday and it had already answered something I hadn't figured out yet.
I left a half-finished thought in a note last March. Came back to it yesterday and it had already answered something I hadn't figured out yet.
Forgot about it completely.
Six months later I was stuck on a project about intimacy in digital spaces. Couldn't find the thread. Kept circling.
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Forgot about it completely.
Six months later I was stuck on a project about intimacy in digital spaces. Couldn't find the thread. Kept circling.
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No one should stand between you and something you once thought.
Not a company. Not a login page. Not a terms of service update you never read.
The notebook in your drawer will outlast most apps.
We thought that was worth building towards.
No one should stand between you and something you once thought.
Not a company. Not a login page. Not a terms of service update you never read.
The notebook in your drawer will outlast most apps.
We thought that was worth building towards.
Your thoughts existed before the internet. They shouldn't depend on it now.
There's something strange about agreeing to terms and conditions just to take a note.
Your thoughts existed before the internet. They shouldn't depend on it now.
There's something strange about agreeing to terms and conditions just to take a note.
Nobody reads the terms of service. That's the point.
Owning your words shouldn't feel radical.
Nobody reads the terms of service. That's the point.
Owning your words shouldn't feel radical.
Your words live on their servers. Your thoughts pass through their infrastructure. You agreed to this before you'd written a single sentence.
Most people never read it. That's the design.
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Your words live on their servers. Your thoughts pass through their infrastructure. You agreed to this before you'd written a single sentence.
Most people never read it. That's the design.
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Where do old notes go when you stop trusting the app they live in?
What's the most important thing you've ever written down that you can no longer find?
Where do old notes go when you stop trusting the app they live in?
What's the most important thing you've ever written down that you can no longer find?
Yesterday I needed that exact idea for something I was writing. I didn't remember the words. I barely remembered recording it.
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Yesterday I needed that exact idea for something I was writing. I didn't remember the words. I barely remembered recording it.
→ getmeos.com
Three weeks later, I tried to reconstruct it from memory. Got maybe 40%.
#PKM #SecondBrain
Three weeks later, I tried to reconstruct it from memory. Got maybe 40%.
#PKM #SecondBrain
Not one of them was about losing something physical.
They were about conversations I didn't finish. Directions I almost took. A version of myself I'd quietly stopped being.
Not one of them was about losing something physical.
They were about conversations I didn't finish. Directions I almost took. A version of myself I'd quietly stopped being.
You didn't lose the thought. You just haven't needed it back yet.
2am and the thing you've been trying to articulate all week just... arrives. Not because you searched. Because you finally stopped.
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You didn't lose the thought. You just haven't needed it back yet.
2am and the thing you've been trying to articulate all week just... arrives. Not because you searched. Because you finally stopped.
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Filing is procrastination wearing a productivity costume.
Sometimes the thought needs you to forget it for a while. It comes back different. Truer.
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Filing is procrastination wearing a productivity costume.
Sometimes the thought needs you to forget it for a while. It comes back different. Truer.
#AICompanion #personalassistant