I am an information hoarder. I am somehow unhappy if I don’t get new information, new insights, new aspects. That’s not limited to technology but to literally everything.
And since I do more and more self-hosting, I have two services on my candidates list: Readeck and Linkwarden. Then, with the rise of AI, the whole topic of AI managed second brain “LLM Wiki” came up, allowing to hoard even more information.
And yet … I still do not use either of them.
And even though it would be cool ro play around with the technology, my main questions before setting up one ofthe tools are:
- Did I ever miss something?
- Does it solfe an actual problem?
And currently .. both are no for me.
I just stumbled across Joan Westenberg’s article “5 Rules for a Second Brain You’ll Actually Use” with the more than accurate subtitle: “Tend a Garden, Don’t Fill a Warehouse”.
And that just nails it so well for me: I do have my note taking (currently in Joplin) for all kinds of intersting stuff, plus the articles that I share here in the “Recommended Read” category. And .. I do not NEED more.
I achieved to live a simple enough life so that I have no projects or so that are so complex that I need more organization than that. And I’m happy with it :-)
