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'I Deleted My Second Brain'
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Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 23, 2025 at 07:23 AM
Totally! I’ve read Tiago Forte’s book on your second brain, I’ve experimented with Zettelkasten, and no, they’re all associated with such an enormous organisational overhead.
Yes, I’m a collector. I have thousands of PDF files in my knowledge repository, saved because they represent items of frangible information I don’t want to lose (either due to the vagaries of the internet or because Google’s AI-driven search no longer feels like finding them).
But no, they’re not organised. If I want to find something, I use my favourite search engine (FoxTrot Pro) to ransack them for specific details. And occasionally I get rid of swathes of older stuff that’s no longer relevant to my interests. But linking, tagging etc.? Nah, what a waste of life! At least my collection only wastes storage space ;-)