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It can work, but only if you also make your second brain about building small habits. For instance, my food recipes are there. If I didn't establish a habit o

It can work, but only if you also make your second brain about building small habits. For instance, my food recipes are there. If I didn't establish a habit of "search notes for recipes" when I think "what should I eat" those notes would have much less value. As for chatgpt doing this for you, I'm interested too. Give MemGPT or khoj a try.

apwell23 3y ago
Storing recipes is great example of why this doesn't work. I never have exact list of ingredients, equipment, energy level for a recepie. I now just ask chatgpt that I have x,y and z in my fridge and I want to use to use oven and vitamix and that i am tired. It concocts a recipe for me that i can tune further. I have customgpt with promt about my food preferences, allergies, style of cooking, cooking equiment ect. Most of the stuff I cook aren't unique recipes that need to store in obsidian.
- ParetoOptimal 3y ago
  > Storing recipes is great example of why this doesn't work. I never have exact list of ingredients, equipment, energy level for a recepie. Really? My fridge typically has the same things I've found. Regarding energy level I have a different node called "low-energy recipes" the other recipes are linked from. > I now just ask chatgpt that I have x,y and z in my fridge and I want to use to use oven and vitamix and that i am tired. It concocts a recipe for me that i can tune further. I've done that, but there are tradeoffs in quality and depending on how you view LLM's.. confidence in the end result. > Most of the stuff I cook aren't unique recipes that need to store in obsidian. It depends on your memory... I forget certain steps of recipes I've cooked for years sometimes. Knowing I have things just there at my grasp puts things on easy mode.
benhurmarcel 3y ago
It seems to me that any notes app works for storing recipes. I have a recipes folder in Apple Notes, which doesn’t use any special feature.
- ParetoOptimal 3y ago
  Yeah, you can replicate how i use it for recipes with notes + tags. However sometimes tags are meaningful enough they should have their own page. And I'd like to know the surrounding context around the creation of that page, which I can do because the first link to it was from my org roam daily. Or I want to know which friend shared the recipe with me. Maybe those examples can answer the unspoken "why not simpler notes?" question.

apwell23 3y ago

Storing recipes is great example of why this doesn't work. I never have exact list of ingredients, equipment, energy level for a recepie. I now just ask chatgpt that I have x,y and z in my fridge and I want to use to use oven and vitamix and that i am tired. It concocts a recipe for me that i can tune further. I have customgpt with promt about my food preferences, allergies, style of cooking, cooking equiment ect. Most of the stuff I cook aren't unique recipes that need to store in obsidian.

ParetoOptimal 3y ago
> Storing recipes is great example of why this doesn't work. I never have exact list of ingredients, equipment, energy level for a recepie. Really? My fridge typically has the same things I've found. Regarding energy level I have a different node called "low-energy recipes" the other recipes are linked from. > I now just ask chatgpt that I have x,y and z in my fridge and I want to use to use oven and vitamix and that i am tired. It concocts a recipe for me that i can tune further. I've done that, but there are tradeoffs in quality and depending on how you view LLM's.. confidence in the end result. > Most of the stuff I cook aren't unique recipes that need to store in obsidian. It depends on your memory... I forget certain steps of recipes I've cooked for years sometimes. Knowing I have things just there at my grasp puts things on easy mode.

benhurmarcel 3y ago

It seems to me that any notes app works for storing recipes. I have a recipes folder in Apple Notes, which doesn’t use any special feature.

ParetoOptimal 3y ago
Yeah, you can replicate how i use it for recipes with notes + tags. However sometimes tags are meaningful enough they should have their own page. And I'd like to know the surrounding context around the creation of that page, which I can do because the first link to it was from my org roam daily. Or I want to know which friend shared the recipe with me. Maybe those examples can answer the unspoken "why not simpler notes?" question.