- Episode 249: Your Brain is Full!

The boys are back! Tonight we talk about notes and creating a "Second Brain".

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[show notes]

https://git.thelinuxcast.org/notes/s10/1033.md

[time stamps]

0:00 Intro

0:19 Welcome

0:58 Mini topic: will there ever be another foundational Linux distro?

7:26 Could Omarchy become the fourth foundation?

9:10 Big-tech distros: Google's gLinux and Azure Linux

11:52 Is the era of new independent distros over? (Matt OS)

14:39 Main topic: the merits and pitfalls of a second brain

16:20 Drew's system: PARA with a numbered inbox

17:44 Greg's system: QPARA in Obsidian

23:02 Matt's system: a vault per area, and the hunt for the perfect tool

30:15 Stop building the tool and start using it

33:15 Org mode vs Markdown

36:39 Matt's confession: a sticker layer for his notes

38:22 What would you change about your system?

42:18 Greg's shared memory wiki for AI agents

45:38 Has AI stopped us writing our own documentation?

50:17 Congratulations, Nate!

50:53 Do you link your notes together?

57:12 The notes you forget you wrote

1:05:14 A second brain built by AI is Claude's, not yours

1:08:08 Where do your notes live? Sync and backups

1:13:07 Nuggies of the week - Greg: AWTRIX pixel-clock firmware

1:15:39 Drew: zk, a Zettelkasten in the terminal

1:16:34 Matt: a DaVinci Resolve MCP

1:18:31 Matt: MCP servers in creative apps

1:19:50 Housekeeping: November LUGs and the live show

1:21:51 Outro