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It got so bad that I'm actually taking my own notes on topics again and trying to build up a personal knowledge database. Maybe it's not such a bad thing...

jonasdegendt 4y ago
Make sure to go full circle by publishing your notes on a blog and start ranking!
- emptyparadise 4y ago
  I bet I could make it to the front page of HN if I blogged about my notes on taking notes. Everyone loves that sort of thing.
  - TOMDM 4y ago
    HN is more of a notes of writing software for taking notes, but hey I'm sure people here would be happy to branch out.
    - emptyparadise 4y ago
      I don't know, articles about zettelkasten get a lot of love: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=zettelkasten https://hn.algolia.com/?q=zettelkasten
spaceman_2020 4y ago
I have to append site:reddit.com before most queries now. Health and medical queries are the worst. The top results literally have the same generic content.
- plonk 4y ago
  You don't want medical advice from reddit though. At least the university websites are trustworthy enough to decide if you need to see a doctor. Maybe a no-filler health info website could be viable if it spread by word of mouth and not via Google. After a while it should become well-ranked on Google anyway, like Wikipedia or StackOverflow. Getting it to that point is a chicken-and-egg problem though.
devX3 4y ago
I'm unsure if I could keep up with something like this with my daily workload/workflow where I already have to document so much.
powerhour 4y ago
A tool that records the sites you visit and makes their content searchable locally would be pretty nifty. It'd be a MITM, which isn't awesome, but if it's not a managed service that might not be so bad.
- plonk 4y ago
  You'd need something like RSS to only download the useful contents. You could probably same a few forums' contents on a 500GB SSD if you stuck to text and used an efficient format.

jonasdegendt 4y ago

Make sure to go full circle by publishing your notes on a blog and start ranking!

emptyparadise 4y ago
I bet I could make it to the front page of HN if I blogged about my notes on taking notes. Everyone loves that sort of thing.
- TOMDM 4y ago
  HN is more of a notes of writing software for taking notes, but hey I'm sure people here would be happy to branch out.
  - emptyparadise 4y ago
    I don't know, articles about zettelkasten get a lot of love: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=zettelkasten https://hn.algolia.com/?q=zettelkasten

spaceman_2020 4y ago

I have to append site:reddit.com before most queries now. Health and medical queries are the worst. The top results literally have the same generic content.

plonk 4y ago
You don't want medical advice from reddit though. At least the university websites are trustworthy enough to decide if you need to see a doctor. Maybe a no-filler health info website could be viable if it spread by word of mouth and not via Google. After a while it should become well-ranked on Google anyway, like Wikipedia or StackOverflow. Getting it to that point is a chicken-and-egg problem though.

devX3 4y ago

I'm unsure if I could keep up with something like this with my daily workload/workflow where I already have to document so much.

powerhour 4y ago

A tool that records the sites you visit and makes their content searchable locally would be pretty nifty. It'd be a MITM, which isn't awesome, but if it's not a managed service that might not be so bad.

plonk 4y ago
You'd need something like RSS to only download the useful contents. You could probably same a few forums' contents on a 500GB SSD if you stuck to text and used an efficient format.