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Jan Hacke<p>I just deleted 12 templates in <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> that I haven't used in a while or that just turned out to be good but impractical ideas</p><p><a href="https://pkm.social/tags/PKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/Zettelkasten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zettelkasten</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/Secondbrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Secondbrain</span></a></p>
Vorinstanz :mastodon:<p>Leute die nun verkünden, mit diesen Tools ( <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Roam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Roam</span></a>, <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> usw.) sei kein <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/SecondBrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecondBrain</span></a> zu entwickeln, weil das Gehirn doch anders funktioniere; Leute, die diese Marketing Metapher wörtlich genommen haben, sind auch enttäuscht, wenn der Redbull-Dose keine Flügel wachsen...</p>

"Systems like #obsidian promise coherence, but they often deliver abstracted confusion.
Human #memory is not an archive. It is associative, embodied, contextual, emotional. We do not think in folders.
My new system is no system at all. I write what I think. I delete what I don’t need. I don’t capture everything. I read what I feel like. I think in conversation, in movement, in context. I don’t build a #secondbrain I inhabit the first." (#JoanWestenberg)
#pkm #notes
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Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save
Westenberg.I Deleted My Second BrainWhy I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

Unlike most people, I'm incredibly unsentimental about my notes. So, when @Daojoan wrote that she deleted her second brain I nodded in understanding. I used to do just that with my worklogs.

A second brain isn't a shrine. It's just a utility. A tool. I don't even think my thoughts are especially, well, noteworthy.

If you want to delete a second brain and start anew, you totally can!

#PKM #Obsidian #ObsidianMD #secondbrain

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Elizabeth Tai · I support deleting your second brain
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From @Joanwestenberg

「 When I first started using PKM tools, I believed I was solving a problem of forgetting. Later, I believed I was solving a problem of integration. Eventually, I realized I had created a new problem: deferral. The more my system grew, the more I deferred the work of thought to some future self who would sort, tag, distill, and extract the gold 」

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Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save
Westenberg.I Deleted My Second BrainWhy I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

I'm back from vacation and ready to dig in to the new stuff Apple has released at #WWDC25!

Xcode 26 & Coding Intelligence (with Gemini!), Liquid Glass, Foundation Model framework, WebView - all of these are relevant for my #secondbrain app. Let's see how many we can cover!

I can totally relate to this 👣🌱👻

👉 "I don’t think I want a map of everything I’ve ever read. I want a mind free to read what it needs. I want memory that forgets gracefully. I want ideas that resurface not because I indexed them, but because they mattered." - @Daojoan

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Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save
Westenberg.I Deleted My Second BrainWhy I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save