Every time, I tried to create a "Second Brain" and find a way to organize all my notes so I could easily find them. But each time, the idea didn’t work. I would get overwhelmed and stop using the system, or it was so slow that adding new notes or finding old ones became difficult.
And don’t get me wrong, I tried them all — Bear, Google Docs, Notion, iA Writer, Apple Notes, Evernote, Google Keep, Obsidian, and many more. Each of them has good and bad sides.
Recently, I tried using Notion again — probably for the 232nd time — and I still got upset because of the overwhelming and slow interface. There was also a bug that saved my data to the wrong database, making it hard to find the saved numbers. That was the last thing I wanted to deal with, so I decided to move on.
I finally had a long discussion with myself and admitted that it just doesn’t work for me. So I’m done trying to organize my notes.
From now on, whenever I need to write something, I’ll use Apple Notes — whether it’s blog post ideas or just a stream of consciousness. It is the fastest way to write something down. If I need to organize a project, I’ll use Things 3 and keep all the necessary information there. If I need to work with spreadsheets or documents, I’ll use Google Workspace.
I like the simplicity, and I hope it will work.
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