One thing that's on the rise is Personal Knowledge Management systems. Since we acquire a lot of knowledge but it's hard to store them in our memory. A lot of people try to use a tool to manage the knowledge. Products like Obsidian and Notion let you create personal wiki style databases where you can link your knowledge together with tags etc. The aim is to be able to retrieve all information related to a certain thing much more easily from this digital Second Brain. Sounds amazing.
However, when I visit the internet communities that talk about these systems. I see a lot of anxiety symptoms. They're obsessed with storing their knowledge as something bad will happen if they just let their brain does the natural thing by filtering irrelevant information and leave what's important for you.
I think it's important to find a healthy balance because technology has a lot of positive things to offer by using the data we provide it.
As a person with a mental illness it's important for me to track my symptoms. An app can get my input. With the data it collects I can see some trends and diagnose my triggers.
I love the collections the gallery app creates for me. Before this, taking photos with phone felt bad because I knew I wouldn't revisit them for years.
I feel like we're already inseparable with our digital minds. We're kind of cyborgs. We just need to make sure we have a healthy relationship with technology so it doesn't make us dysfunctional.
Here is a good read about this: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr. He talks about how some of the skills older generations had are already diminishing and provides examples. It is a great read and makes you question what shortcuts you're taking using the internet and be more mindful about it.
One thing that's on the rise is Personal Knowledge Management systems. Since we acquire a lot of knowledge but it's hard to store them in our memory. A lot of people try to use a tool to manage the knowledge. Products like Obsidian and Notion let you create personal wiki style databases where you can link your knowledge together with tags etc. The aim is to be able to retrieve all information related to a certain thing much more easily from this digital Second Brain. Sounds amazing.
However, when I visit the internet communities that talk about these systems. I see a lot of anxiety symptoms. They're obsessed with storing their knowledge as something bad will happen if they just let their brain does the natural thing by filtering irrelevant information and leave what's important for you.
I think it's important to find a healthy balance because technology has a lot of positive things to offer by using the data we provide it.
As a person with a mental illness it's important for me to track my symptoms. An app can get my input. With the data it collects I can see some trends and diagnose my triggers.
I love the collections the gallery app creates for me. Before this, taking photos with phone felt bad because I knew I wouldn't revisit them for years.
I feel like we're already inseparable with our digital minds. We're kind of cyborgs. We just need to make sure we have a healthy relationship with technology so it doesn't make us dysfunctional.
Here is a good read about this: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr. He talks about how some of the skills older generations had are already diminishing and provides examples. It is a great read and makes you question what shortcuts you're taking using the internet and be more mindful about it.