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Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by ncallaway on Thursday October 13, 2022 @04:35PM (#33196151)
Oh, I 100% agree that there would be some kind of exponential falloff in which notes I go back to.

I just, again, for me personally, gain a lot of value from writing the notes even that I never go back to revisit.

So for me personally, the metric is interesting, like I said, but doesn't capture "how useful" a note is, because I have most of my utility outside of that use case.

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Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by cgriswald on Friday October 14, 2022 @12:21AM (#33199594)
I don't go back to notes because:

1. I have it committed to memory. 2. I never needed it.

I have no way to discern whether either (1) or (2) will happen as far into the future as you care to specify; so it's mostly a moot point. In any case, I will sometimes just do random walks through my notes, wikipedia style, and find a lot of value in it.

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