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Just use Obsidian and become obsessed with note taking to the point it consumes your whole life.

But for real if we do get a brain interface, you will want it to be something you can self host with that kind of data.

I still remember an embarrassing moment from high school when a friend said she liked metal, a specific band I can't recall. Without thinking, I blurted out that I liked them too (and I did) , only to be asked what my favorite songs were.

My brain, helpfully, was entirely blank.

This is reason #8,334,901 I keep my partner around.

If I forget the name of the Chinese place we ate at in that little mountain town back in 2012 after the check engine light came on in the Cavalier so we had to pull off to see what was wrong and then realized we should get food while we're there, I can just call it the China Wok and he'll find the urge to correct me with the real actual name to be completely irresistible. And in that way, the drive to correct me and always be right means I don't have to remember shit.

Oh man! My girlfriend and I are the like the perfect yin and yang. I'm adhd and feel exactly what this conveys. BUT, my girlfriend is witty and nerdy, so everytime the egg roll scenario happens, she goes, "my notes say you did/didn't like that last time". And it's eyewatering just thinking about it.

... keep a diary?

Memex

Thanks! Into the potential story pile.

Get a notes app. Saved my life.

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I keep lists of how much I liked what. Always rate stuff on IMDb too.

My notes app is MASSIVE

Be careful what you wish for.

If you can search it that way, then others can, too.

I’ve just started a new job with a lot of onboarding and my new coworker said “Now you know all of the things! I’ll direct everyone your way!” He was really confused when I tried to explain to him that yes, my hard drive has written all of the information I’ve heard, but my file system is shit so I’ll probably never see it again.

You can do this with not that much setup:

• Obsidian app on the phone
• Make a shortcut on your desktop so that it's easily accessible and there's minimal friction to make a rough note (you can write on your daily note)
• Have obsidian synced to your computer, either through their paid service or something like Google drive / etc.

And now what makes it magic for me:

• Have a bash script that runs on your computer every once in a while and combines your notes into a single file
• Append that file into your LLM of choice (either online or a local one if you have that setup) and make a prompt that goes something like "you're a NotebookLM style assistant with access to my notes, answer from knowledge of my notes unless explicitly asked otherwise..."

Depending on how sophisticated your setup is, you might get the LLM to automatically pick up changes in your notes. I do this at work and it feels like magic.

You only get the AI search results. Frequently wrong, hallucinating results that don't exist and sometimes you reached your token limit and have to wait for a day until you can search again.

My brain: Found 3 billion results in 0.23 seconds.

Me: None of these are what I searched for...

If you regularly use Google's products, they might be able to do this, because they profile your mind through the stuff you search for, your location, the images you uploaded to Photos etc.

I always wanted Robocop's ability to play my memories back on a TV.