How do you incorporate learnings from journaling?

Question

I have a good journaling habit going since April. Every thought that I consider to be interesting, I write it down.However, my reading habit is quite bad. In part, this is because I don't really know how to take my own ideas and move them to a more organized place (most of the time).For people who read their own journal entries at a later point in time: what do you do (and why)? Do you categorize everything? Or do you just read it and that's that?

eimrine · Accepted Answer

I read when I feel a desire to move on forward in something really important to me. I do not categorize anything because I am terrible at file storing: I have not enough computers, my HDDs are too small for my needs and they are almost never plugged in, because of too few SATA ports on my machines; also software just sucks.But I have discovered a really working way of using kind of external device for learning goals - I have a student who desires to learn anything I know on programming, he is probably a best way possible to refresh and debug my knowledge.

cableshaft · Answer

You can try something like Obsidian out. It just saves your entries into Markdown files, so you'll always have a text version of them, and it will automatically link together any tags you include within the document, so you can tag the concepts or subjects in your journals and then you can access them again via those links.
It's kind of like a wiki, except markdown based, and in a cross-platform application.
It's free as long as you don't want to use their cloud services, also.

brudgers · Answer

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