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I took advantage of the holidays to finally clean up my Obsidian-powered exobrain / mind garden / digital zettelkasten. It has a modest initial set of ~200 notes which constitute a "cabinet of curiosities" (or Wunderkammer) of sorts for me, with an initial bias toward cognitive pitfalls, mental models, and empirical laws. Each note is meta-tagged and citations follow the APA convention. I have followed Wikipedia's convention of top-level academic disciplines (applied, formal, natural, and social sciences; and, humanities), and created my own subcategories down to level 4 as I saw fit. One of my resolutions this year is to keep expanding this library by recording insightful ideas and meaningful quotes that I come across through personal reflection, conversations, and reading. You can access the site here: https://publish.obsidian.md/aviationdoctor/Index Feedback welcome! In particular, I'm interested in collaboratively expanding the "List of sources" article with more insightful online references.

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This is great. While I use Notion, I've migrated most of my entries to Obsidian and can say I used it more than the former after being a heavy Notion user for the last 5 years. One aspect I struggle with is creating an environment where I'm reminded to revisit my past notes and entries. I know some ideas are more or less ephemeral, but I'm also conscious of writing something and intentionally revisiting it later. I'm sure there's a yaml template or plugin out there that solves this, but I'm curious how/if you have a system to revisit your entries, or if you adhoc that approach when searching?

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I guess that’s where tagging and linking helps. Instead of hoping to revisit your old notes serendipitously, you wait until one day you’re reading another note on a particular topic, and either a link or the “Related to” section is there to remind you of similar stuff you had produced before

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