How to Record and Retrieve Anything You’ve Ever Had to Look Up Twice

Sound advice, I use this website as my kb as well as an app called GoodLinks, a bookmarking app in the Apple ecosystem, in which website guides are saved as “how to reconnect Apple TV remote” tagged with #howto

This is crucial given my cognitive issues. I only have to check thechelsuk and GoodLinks, moreover I only have to remember to check…

I recommend text files for this kind of knowledge base, but you can use whatever app you’re most likely to keep around long term. Apple Notes is a popular choice. Keep all your how-tos in one searchable place, be it an app or a group of text files you can run searches on.

I keep my knowledge base as a series of Markdown files in a folder, and I access them through Obsidian. The wonderful thing about text files (including Markdown) is that you can read them with any text editor at all. No one app can stand as a gatekeeper between you and the knowledge you have collected.

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Even the most clearly written description of a process will be no good to you if you can’t find it when you need it. You need a way to identify that a note or a file belongs to your knowledge base. This can be done with the properties of a file, but my favourite way is with a hashtag. Use the #howto tag any time you write down how you did something, or preface the title of individual notes with how to -. This makes it super easy to see all your processes in one place, no matter how scattered they might be across your notes!

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Underestimate the importance of a good file name or note title at your peril!

Approach naming a how-to as if you could only use one word in the title. What would that word be? What would the second word be? In the case of How to fix Miele dishwasher code F14, the two words would be dishwasher and F14.

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