Honestly, I'm not sure I buy the second brain marketing myself either. If it's a knowledge-base then it probably has more value in a wiki. I use Obsidian as my

Honestly, I'm not sure I buy the second brain marketing myself either. If it's a knowledge-base then it probably has more value in a wiki. I use Obsidian as my daily journal, personal log and thinking partner. I have AuDHD and have a tendency to forget and I stress out when I can't remember things. Sometimes I need to make detailed plans and have it someplace accessible (phone) so I can stay on track. The E2EE Sync as part of the service was a plus (not happy with the Jan '24 changes to Sync but that's a different story). It works very well on my iPhone. As my journaling tool, I find it incredibly powerful to link to things I think about day-to-day. I can create a note about a topic I'm thinking about. (New notes automatically create a link to the current day, thanks to templates). At times, I will make a note on a particular media I've consumed (book, movies, etc.), put some things that I thought about it, and link it to the day I finished reading it. I do this for movies and other things. I often will forget that I've seen that movie already so a quick look-up can save me an hour of my time. When I revisit a day on the journal, I'm able to see backlinks to things that I have thought about, watched, read or have done in that day. It also helps me with my emotion dysregulation and working through what I'm going through. Sometimes it's hard to understand because I don't always remember clearly what's happening. It helps me with weekly review. It helps me understand how I'm using my time (time blindness) a little better and it does so in a frictionless way. Could I accomplish this with other tools? Yes. But: 1) I value my privacy above everything, 2) I wanted a tool that doesn't impose a certain philosophy on me, 3) it has a mobile app, and 4) e2ee sync service.