Moving to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain

The case for having a -Public- Second Brain, and why I picked Obsidian.

Moving to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain swyx · 2022-02-06 I've gone through many versions of notetaking systems in the past decade, from literal "in memory" storage, to writing cheatsheets , to blogging everything publicly, to storing private notes in OneNote, then SimpleNote, then Notion. For focused topics, I have a long history of making markdown repos on GitHub accumulating thousands of stars . I've also considered Evernote , Joplin and Roam and its less culty competitors Foam and Athens . Two months ago I moved my notes to Obsidian , and I've been fairly happy with the result. Time fo

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