AI Second Brain Apps, Thoughts?
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Just curious, what are you guys using for knowledge management? (like notes, docs, newsletter ...)
Been seeing these kind of AI second brain everywhere and trying out some names like notion, mem.ai, saner.ai, fabric... Haven't decided what to use yet, so would love to hear how folks are using AI for this use case
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Save your notes in a folder on your device. When you have a use case for interacting with a tool, upload the parts of your notes and references that are relevant.
This way you can have any kind of file & also use it how you want.
I tried a ton of services. Most of them are extremely immature and not ready for you to dive in and use them as a real second brain.
The fact that nobody has created an AI-driven product that does this confuses me.
There is probably already Obsidian Extension for this in Co-Pilot format