I've recently switched from a giant append-only text file which I've been using for 18 years, to using TiddlyWiki -- a personal wiki. Each journal entry (or any

I've recently switched from a giant append-only text file which I've been using for 18 years, to using TiddlyWiki -- a personal wiki. Each journal entry (or any wiki page within it) can be tagged and you can view pages across tags, so the ideas is to tag the journal with topics and then later transfer it to some learning article about that specific topic (or any part of my past life in general). I've found that I constantly scan HN etc. for new articles, may read them through and it gets weakly stored in some kind of background memory, but it doesn't really make me form a sufficient opinion on the subject. 15 years ago information was scarce (C/C++ user's journal only came out once a month!) or expensive (E.g. O'Reilly books), or questionable (Usenet groups). Nowadays there's just a constant stream of interesting things happening.