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Continuous Remembering

27 Jul 2026

In this moment: Rosie Sherry

After reading Rosie's post on continuous learning I realised that the hard part isn't the learning, it's the remembering (for me, at least!).

I complete courses, read articles, finish projects and have genuinely insightful conversations that change how I think, but there are times when I probably wouldn't be able to tell you much about it a week later. The learning happened but it's sometimes buried somewhere I can't reach. Either that or my brain is full.

To help with this I started my own personal knowledge base a few years ago, and I wish I'd done it much sooner. Whenever I learn a useful new concept or skill I make a note, and then use the knowledge base as a spare brain to look things up. It's not perfect but it's helped me a lot over the last few years.

If you've got a system that works well then please let me know, before I forget to ask!

Adam Foy

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Rosie Sherry

Ah, thanks for reading! I think saving bookmarks counts too, which is partly how the MoTaverse remembers. Anything you add to the Observatory, you can look back on and help you remember, whilst others can benefit from what you have discovered. Have you heard of Second Brain and Personal Knowledge Management? It's basically what you are doing with your notes. The MoTaverse is trying to some what bring some of those second brain aspects together. Some of in a community way, other parts in a more formal way (Moments, Articles, Talks, etc). The cool thing with having your own notes is that you could probably stick them into Claude to help you make more sense of them, perhaps that could inspire some knowledge sharing as a Moment? :)

about 18 hours

Adam Foy

Yeah I've got it set up as a second brain - I use Obsidian and I've got a bit of a Johnny Decimal thing going on as I find it easier to navigate. I've pointed Claude at it a couple of times but haven't experimented much yet. I can usually find what I need in a couple of clicks without it. I'm guessing there are skills out there that can create quizzes / flash cards based on the content, that would be cool!

about 17 hours