[fattless]

Im a student and have been slowly messing with other note taking strategies for class. I switched first to joplin for md and html which was jeads and shoulders above google docs for speed and organization. This semester im giving obsidian a shot for its links and an automatic flashcard plugin, hoping it helps me review quicker and gets me to think about how these topics connect instead of just copying information from start to end. But admittedly i was convinced by one of those "my second brain changed my life forever and cured cancer" videos

So far its been good and an improvement, thanks to md im taking great notes fast and efficiently and im putting more thought into connections. But all the videos and posts claiming its changed their lives or something is a bit much. I cant imagine it being that much more useful outside of school.

On a side note, any other useful programs/techniques feel free to share.

[ravishi]

This trend is indeed weird. It reminds me of my journey with Vim. In the beginning it was life changing. Like I felt like it really gave me an edge. I had all kinds of customizations on top of it. After a while I changed to Vim plugins inside full IDEs. No customization, just my plain comfortable text editor of choice. I feel nice while using it. Feels at home. I can't use mouse based text editors and feel happy anymore. Or at least I don't bother trying. Also I see no point in comparing this with anyone else using their tools. It's their tools and they could have more than a decade of experience in it.

[Zetice]

Notion + GoodNotes is where I’m at currently. I do wish I could combine the two, but no app I’ve found does tablet+pen and typed notes seamlessly together, so I just split them out for this setup.

I’m also experimenting with Asana to track class assignments, but I’m currently trying to get them to let me buy “only” one seat of Business level, since the “workload” tool seems immensely valuable to keep my work spread out evenly through the semester.

[floren]

> But admittedly i was convinced by one of those "my second brain changed my life forever and cured cancer" videos [...] But all the videos and posts claiming its changed their lives or something is a bit much.

Would you have clicked on the video if the title was "My second brain has been kinda useful, I guess"?

[fattless]

Maybe i dont know, but i had already tried obsidian in the past and mostly clicked the video to see what i was missing.