Thread by @m_ashcroft

I have a horrible feeling that learning a whole bunch of stuff about Personal Knowledge Management and getting nerdy about tools and workflows has made me rather less effective at managing my personal knowledge

and if not less effective then certainly more anxious

maybe I just need to embrace @visakanv junkyard approach, I might just be a junkyard person

https://twitter.com/m_ashcroft/status/1364334719970721793?s=20

like, now there's always this meta cognition when I'm reading

"oh you should be taking notes"

yeah but I don't want to take notes

"okay better not read then or I'll waste my time"

or there's another one which sounds like

"should this be in Roam or Obsidian... for that matter I should just commit to one over the other shouldn't I... but what about using both at once... oh god I should figure out ONCE AND FOR ALL what my system is... later"

maybe the only people who really need "note taking systems" are pro academics and for everyone else it's an info hazard

https://twitter.com/m_ashcroft/status/1481329571345670154?s=20

I've decided I'm going to use Obsidian for like 95% of my stuff, because Obsidian feels like a magical playground, I can make it pretty and it's all in plain text files

and I shall satisfice all the way, focusing on creative output rather than polishing notes as a hobby

it's important not to throw the baby out with the bathwater

taking notes is good, organising notes is good

but I am going to optimise for fun over function

and I'm gonna trust my inherent salience filter and capacity for embodied cognition