Have you tried building a second brain but ended up just building a pretty folder structure? Tried Zettelkasten, PARA, and every other note-taking framework—only to abandon them all? Me too. And ...

How many notes do you have saved on your phone? At a quick glance, I have 743 notes stored in Apple Notes alone. I had more than that in Evernote, and let's not talk about the scattered notebooks ...

Have you ever felt like your note-taking system is working against you rather than for you? Maybe you’ve spent hours perfecting folder structures, testing out new apps, or diving into productivity ...

Discover the ultimate 2026 workflow for organizing your notes using NotebookLM to process information and Obsidian to build a ...

A few years ago, Nick Milo was using a folder full of plain text files for notes when he found out about Obsidian. The app had just launched in beta, and was getting some buzz on a productivity forum ...

Well, it’s been a minute. I started the My Obsidian Setup series in 2021, and the last installment –in which I talked about how I was saving rich links in Obsidian – came out in early 2022. I like to ...

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