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- For finding information: Perplexity - For finding websites or products: Kagi - For reading, annotating, journaling, daily planning: Supernote A5X (the only

- For finding information: Perplexity - For finding websites or products: Kagi - For reading, annotating, journaling, daily planning: Supernote A5X (the only device I’ve ever purchased that lands in the same tier of usefulness as my MBP or iPhone) - For typing comfortably: A custom Corne keyboard (https://keebmaker.com/products/corne-cherry https://keebmaker.com/products/corne-cherry) - For note-taking at work: Obsidian (the graph-like organization scheme has paid dividends multiple times for me)

BOOSTERHIDROGEN 3y ago
Could you elaborate on the dividends?
- ethanbond 3y ago
  I’ve been using it to learn about/discuss/work on the same topic area for several years (since Obsidian’s first beta launch IIRC). Now I will regularly be writing up notes on a “new” topic and start tagging entities (or people/companies) and realize I already have some old notes on them. Then it’s easy to traverse the graph to find all sorts of adjacent context. It just has a great balance of level of work required to add organization to your notes versus level of work required to leverage that organization.
  - BOOSTERHIDROGEN 3y ago
    Are there any other tagging conventions besides those based on people or companies?
    - ethanbond 3y ago
      Topics, books, projects, and lots of automations around date-based tagging. E.g. I generate daily notes “daily/2023-12-27” and have macros to create e.g. meeting notes that are already tagged to [[2023-12-27]] as well as [[2023 Month 12]], [[2023 Week 52]]. Every note is prepended with its date, so [[2023-12-27 hh:mm - Book - Thinking in Systems]]
gaws 3y ago
> For finding information: Perplexity How is this better than ChatGPT?
- ethanbond 3y ago
  It's better than ChatGPT in pretty much every possible way. The two that are most important and least subjective: Up to date information and cited sources. Other more subjective things: fewer hallucinations (I have yet to encounter a factual error in Perplexity, and I do check the source on anything that seems questionable) and the follow-on question suggestions are very useful. To be clear, by "finding information," I'm mostly referring to factual historical or current event information about the real world, i.e. not reference information for writing code. For the usecase I'm describing, I think it's frankly silly to use ChatGPT over Perplexity.

BOOSTERHIDROGEN 3y ago

Could you elaborate on the dividends?

ethanbond 3y ago
I’ve been using it to learn about/discuss/work on the same topic area for several years (since Obsidian’s first beta launch IIRC). Now I will regularly be writing up notes on a “new” topic and start tagging entities (or people/companies) and realize I already have some old notes on them. Then it’s easy to traverse the graph to find all sorts of adjacent context. It just has a great balance of level of work required to add organization to your notes versus level of work required to leverage that organization.
- BOOSTERHIDROGEN 3y ago
  Are there any other tagging conventions besides those based on people or companies?
  - ethanbond 3y ago
    Topics, books, projects, and lots of automations around date-based tagging. E.g. I generate daily notes “daily/2023-12-27” and have macros to create e.g. meeting notes that are already tagged to [[2023-12-27]] as well as [[2023 Month 12]], [[2023 Week 52]]. Every note is prepended with its date, so [[2023-12-27 hh:mm - Book - Thinking in Systems]]

gaws 3y ago

> For finding information: Perplexity How is this better than ChatGPT?

ethanbond 3y ago
It's better than ChatGPT in pretty much every possible way. The two that are most important and least subjective: Up to date information and cited sources. Other more subjective things: fewer hallucinations (I have yet to encounter a factual error in Perplexity, and I do check the source on anything that seems questionable) and the follow-on question suggestions are very useful. To be clear, by "finding information," I'm mostly referring to factual historical or current event information about the real world, i.e. not reference information for writing code. For the usecase I'm describing, I think it's frankly silly to use ChatGPT over Perplexity.