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Reasonable Deviations
Personal blog · reasonabledeviations.comproductivityscience
Reasonable Deviations is a personal blog at reasonabledeviations.com about productivity and science. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Molecular Notes: My Second Brain”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on personal note-taking and knowledge management, such as the molecular notes approach and using Obsidian. One commenter explicitly recommends the molecular notes post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Molecular Notes: My Second Brain2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-24
What Hacker News says?
If you want to setup a zettelkasten like system for free, with minimal effort / requirement on any plugins (just "templater" will be helpful) I highly recommend https://reasonabledeviations.com/2022/04/18/molecular-notes-... No affiliation, just a happy user for over a year now. If you take kindle highlights when you read, the https://github.com/hadynz/obsidian-kindle-plugin plugin is amazing for auto generating sou…
Comment linking /2022/04/18/molecular-notes-part-1/
on “Why I Like Obsidian”Submitted How I Use Notion as a story · 217 points
HN discussionI'm a fan of writing things in my own words. Don't just copy and paste chunks of text verbatim. Andy Matuschak has written about his techniques for keeping notes. https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes Molecular notes is another take on keeping notes https://reasonabledeviations.com/2022/04/18/molecular-notes-...
Comment linking /2022/04/18/molecular-notes-part-1/
on “Ask HN: What is a sustainable methodology for taking notes of your learning?”Submitted Molecular Notes: Practice as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Covid-19 Beta as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT for Second Brains as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Molecular Notes: My Second Brain as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Read Books as a story · 1 points
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