The Evolution Of The Filling Cabinet

We are constantly turning our lives into data, much of it nonphysical: photos, screenshots, notes, messages and bookmarked and other digital detritus. This compendium of self-knowledge seems only to expand. Now, there is a new category of apps known as "personal-knowledge bases" or simply as "second brains". These type of apps like Notion, Obsidian and Roam Research are designed not only to store everyrhing that our brains cant hold but to makes us better at retrieving information.

"If a thought can not be retrived, then it's not a useful thoughts"