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Joan Westenberg on why she deleted all her Obsidian notes and a response by Elizabeth Tai.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain

https://elizabethtai.com/2025/06/29/i-support-deleting-your-second-brain

I never maintaned such elaborate systems of notes as the process felt like work. I usually take raw, metadata-less notes I have an immediate or short-medium term need for, and archive only a fraction of them.

#obsidian#NoteTaking

Joan Westenberg on why she deleted all her Obsidian notes and a response by Elizabeth Tai.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain

https://elizabethtai.com/2025/06/29/i-support-deleting-your-second-brain

I never maintaned such elaborate systems of notes as the process felt like work. I usually take raw, metadata-less notes I have an immediate or short-medium term need for, and archive only a fraction of them.

#obsidian#NoteTaking

From @Joanwestenberg

「 When I first started using PKM tools, I believed I was solving a problem of forgetting. Later, I believed I was solving a problem of integration. Eventually, I realized I had created a new problem: deferral. The more my system grew, the more I deferred the work of thought to some future self who would sort, tag, distill, and extract the gold 」

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brain

#pkm #secondbrain #obsidian #minimalism

It syncs with iOS via Symperium.

Everything else I‘ve tried over the years is just unbearably slooooww in comparison.

And since I must change my note-taking system I want to improve a few things.
Like syncing over any self-hosted infrastructure, but it absolutely must work with macOS and iOS.

I‘ve considered #Obsidian but it‘s slow as molasses and cannot be synched via my own infrastructure/server. Feels like a downgrade over what I have.

Same for Logseq. Terrible Mac app, no sync at all.