Note Taking dump/opinions

My thoughts on the note taking and overall writing in general. I started writing this because of this video. I have been writing in obsidian for quite alot of time almost 2 years.

• The entire point of Note-taking is when you find the needle in the haystack you can store that needle in particular place ready to reused once again. But if you keep re-searching and looking again and again for same things then you are not going any further. It was same with stack overflow and now with LLMs, if you keep looking for the same stuff you are not learning from the mistakes and more importantly you're wasting the current and your future self time. I mostly take notes on educative YouTube video (3blue1brown and No boilerplate being my favourite), blogs and articles which I read everyday. Whenever I look for the stuff in my vault I get the relevant bits and pieces where I left of. I almost never start from the scratch except when in beginning of something at that time everything is none existent also new learners who just started using note-taking gets overwhelmed and tries to extract more from their so called "second brain".
• But the fact is that their new brain is kinda dumd right now it needs more feeding of data and then it will make more sense. Trust me its a longer process of building and reiterating.
• I highly recommend reading the Building a Second Brain by Tiago forte. It lays down the fundamentals for how you should approach note-taking and not become hoarder. Many people keeps taking notes but never revisits them which also a inefficient use of time. Review and eliminate irrelevant content from the notes and add only relevant and resonating points from the resource. Also the more you write in our own words the more better, copy-paste ain't good here.
• Also the Idea of "Second Brain" is kinda vague. There is no way you can make as something that great just a fancy word for linked notes. But for its small connection that obsidian local graph and linked files shows me which helps me alot.
• Use internal link aggresively, as much as you can. Tags over Folders.
• Currently I have total 1078 notes in my vault most of them are daily notes from last 14 months of daily note taking which I only reflect to the highlights (a separate summarised section) of them.
• Bless your future self with the information which is just relevant to you, handpicked by you, crafted by you, only for you.
• Does programming notes help? do you make/take them?
  • Well that depends if something I already know about and quite familiar with then I don't write much on it simple bits but those which I found resonating and intriguing then I rant about it but leave a TLDR.

TLDR

Move from the beginner note-taker to intermediate asap and iterate over your system not copy-pasted from YouTube. Build upon the daily routine and information you come across but its a task of patience.