Why all your notes and files should be plain text - The Verge
What kinds of information are worth preserving when we don’t know exactly how we’ll be putting it to use?
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
My old belief was that storing all these links in a souped-up database would lead me to magically generate new insights about the topics I write about. After several years of banging my head into a wall, I realized that to generate new insights from these links I would need a new approach.
That led me to Zettelkasten, a technique for creating webs o... See more
That led me to Zettelkasten, a technique for creating webs o... See more
Casey Newton • Three apps that made me more productive this year
If all you need is a place to save articles and read them later, you have lots of options. Readwise Reader is the most powerful (and the only one that also does RSS and newsletters), but it’s also $8 a month. Matter is a lovely app but is mostly Apple-only. Instapaper is a great option and works across basically all platforms — it’s probably the on... See more