How to Organize Digital Information Like Your Brain

Solving today’s large problems requires connecting seemingly unconnected dots

Tom Vogel
6 min readOct 28, 2022
Connected notes in Obsidian
My connected Obsidian notes (source: author)

Today’s large problems are all interconnected to many subjects, and sometimes even depend on a single person’s mindset (hello Mr. Putin).

You always meet people twice or three times, but most often in totally different contexts.

Information comes from a wide range of sources, some of them suitable for one topic, others for another topic.

Yet we still treat information in a folder structure. Both literally, by sticking a piece of information in a single digital folder, like in the good old paper folder days. But more gravely, in our mental model: This person is associated with that company. This subject is only relevant to that investment. To solve this problem, I need technologies A, B, and C.

Wrong. Everything is connected. But maybe you don’t know yet, or you simply don’t see the connections yet. With the flood of information around, I can’t blame you for not seeing all the connections. Nobody can. But some freely available software technology can help you.

As usual, I am not proposing to save the world with this article. But I am trying to showcase the usage of personal notes using a tool that…

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Tom Vogel

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