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Sébastien Dubois
Personal blog · dsebastien.net · on HN as dSebastienproductivity
Sébastien Dubois's personal blog at dsebastien.net covers productivity. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 155 times, most often “Overview of My Personal Knowledge Management System”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Sébastien Dubois's posts on personal knowledge management, note-taking and decision fatigue, and point to his PKM community. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Organize your thoughts, life & work ⚡ AI, Personal Organization, LifeOS, Obsidian.
Most-linked posts?
- Overview of My Personal Knowledge Management System2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-27
What Hacker News says?
https://dsebastien.net I write about programming, bootstrapping, personal knowledge management, learning, personal organization, and productivity. I also publish a weekly newsletter. I recreated my blog when I was exploring Next.js a while ago, but it's been around for years before that. There's nothing fancy. I enjoy writing using Markdown + MDX and the freedom it gives me to build and integrate custom React compon…
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted 25+ years of personal knowledge management as a story · 263 points
HN discussionAn Obsidian plugin that makes life tracking easier: https://www.dsebastien.net/announcing-life-tracker-a-new-obs...
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)”Submitted Why take and make notes as a story · 85 points
HN discussionI've been having fun with my blog for many years. And now it's a big source of revenue for me. Still, I treat it almost the same way as before: a place where I get to share my ideas and discoveries. The sheer act of writing helps me structure my thoughts and helps others grow. Win win! https://dsebastien.net What I did a while ago was splitting notes and articles: https://notes.dsebastien.net Publishing unpolished n…
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on “10 years of writing a blog nobody reads”Submitted The Feynman Technique as a story · 59 points
HN discussionEDIT: Paste this hacky snippet into your browser's console to save all of the links into your clipboard: (() => { let result = [...document.querySelectorAll('td a')] .map((link) => link && !link.href.includes('ycombinator') && !link.href.includes('javascript:void') ? link.href : '' ) .filter(Boolean); result = [...new Set(result)]; result.sort(); copy(result.join('\n\n')); })(); Just to help, here's a compiled-list…
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on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”Submitted Startup failure stories: 20 months in, 2K hours spent and 200K € lost (2021) as a story · 57 points
HN discussionAll time classic: Coding Horror by Jeff Atwood (SO) Shameless plug: https://dsebastien.net
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on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”Submitted Discover the Zettelkasten Method as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI'm still fond of old school blogs and RSS feeds Mine https://dsebastien.net
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on “Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time”Submitted You Need a Fourth Place: A Space to Think as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI agree with this. I tend to remember a lot more when I take time to write things down. It was the way I studied, and is now the main way I learn new things. Writing can take different forms (written words or code), but in both cases, it makes ideas clearer, helps me create mental models, and help me shape my thoughts. I heavily recommend journaling and PKM in general. I recently wrote a few articles on the subject:…
Comment linking /blog/2021-12-03-personal-knowledge-management-organization
on “Keep a Log”Submitted Attention is a currency. Why does it matter, and how to leverage that fact? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI have one and rely on a recurring event on my calendar to update it every couple of months https://www.dsebastien.net/now/
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on “How and why to make a /now page on your site”Submitted Team management tips: 10 ways to kill a team as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI've been writing for many years, and I I'm still very far from being able to pay rent https://dsebastien.net
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on “How to Make a Living as a Writer”Submitted Why you should take notes while reading non-fiction as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThat's cool. I love ideas that make the Web come alive. But I also feel like many more people need a fourth place, somewhere to think: https://www.dsebastien.net/you-need-a-fourth-place-a-place-t...
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on “Every webpage deserves to be a place”Submitted Supercharge Your Knowledge Capture Workflow with the Obsidian Web Clipper as a story · 4 points
HN discussionJournaling is key to my productivity and creativity. I think that many people associate the activity only with writing about their feelings and personal stories. It's that, but also so much more. My journal is central to my days. It's where I keep track of what I've done, what I've discovered, the challenges I've faced, my ideas for the future, etc. I've blogged about this here: - https://dsebastien.net/blog/2021-10…
Comment linking /blog/2021-10-07-periodic-journaling-part-2
on “How I finally get daily journaling done with a workflow on my iPhone”Submitted Team management tips: 10 more ways to kill a team as a story · 4 points
HN discussionConsidering only the practical advice, and not the medical side, I think that what would help you is to develop a knowledge management system. Journaling to capture tasks, events and learnings you want to remember, and periodic reviews to review, look back, and look ahead. I discussed my own system here [0]. Personal Knowledge Management helps avoid having to rely on a weak system (your brain), and instead rely on a…
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on “Ask HN: Struggling with poor memory and executive function. What to do?”Submitted Why all solopreneurs should write a journal as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes! The Obsidian Web Clipper is pretty neat. I just published an article about it: https://www.dsebastien.net/supercharge-your-knowledge-captur...
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on “Is stuff online worth saving?”Submitted Stop Tweaking Your Tools and Start Using Them as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI have published a free guide: https://www.dsebastien.net/the-ultimate-beginners-guide-to-o... I also have a course: https://developassion.gumroad.com/l/obsidian-starter-course And a starting point with a preconfigured vault and a user guide: https://developassion.gumroad.com/l/obsidian-starter-kit
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on “Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks”Submitted Why Obsidian is all you need as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor those interested, I've published an in-depth article about Angular 13: https://dsebastien.net/blog/2021-11-05-angular-13-in-depth
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on “Angular 13”Submitted In Defense of Using Fewer Tools as a story · 3 points
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