--- title: Moving to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain | daily.dev description: Two months ago I moved my notes to Obsidian, and I’ve been fairly happy with the result. Here my focus is on convincing you why your S.B. should be public. As... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/moving-to-obsidian-as-a-public-second-brain-picoqeewa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Moving to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain | daily.dev og:description: Two months ago I moved my notes to Obsidian, and I’ve been fairly happy with the result. Here my focus is on convincing you why your S.B. should be public. As... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/moving-to-obsidian-as-a-public-second-brain-picoqeewa og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PIcoqEewA.png og:image:alt: Moving to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Moving to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain **[swyx](https://daily.dev/sources/swyx)** · [@swyx](https://daily.dev/swyx) · 5 min read · 80 upvotes · 10 comments ## Summary Two months ago I moved my notes to Obsidian, and I’ve been fairly happy with the result. Here my focus is on convincing you why your S.B. should be public. As I reached the limits of SimpleNote/Notion/GitHub, I thought about these factors for my next notetaking tool. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@way2extreme** · 4 upvotes > I'm dumbfounded that I stumbled upon this article.  The whole idea that you can codify your thought processes into a second brain is fantastic. You managed to put into words and actions things that I have been trying to do for years. Software engineers are constantly hammering away at ideas and solutions that take a lot of effort to materialize or resolve. Recording the process in a wiki or (vb)log is a way of making certain that the next encounter with a similar issue will be resolved much faster. I must have hundreds of wiki pages and personal blogs with very hard earned notes of how any... **@maxalthaus** · 2 upvotes > Interestin stuff. I guess, i need to try how that works **@dodothedev** · 2 upvotes > I've just found Obsidian. The transfer process from notion was a bit difficult, but I'll manually do it for the important ones at some point. I like what I've seen of Obsidian so far, and this article has reinforced the desire to do it. **@upieez** · 1 upvotes > I love swyx and his how we should make learning public **@zakablanco** · 1 upvotes > I’ve just found Obsidian. The transfer process from notion was a bit difficult, but I’ll manually do it for the important ones at some point. I like what I’ve seen of Obsidian so far, and this article has reinforced the desire to do it. --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#git](https://daily.dev/tags/git) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/moving-to-obsidian-as-a-public-second-brain-picoqeewa) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Moving to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/moving-to-obsidian-as-a-public-second-brain-picoqeewa","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/moving-to-obsidian-as-a-public-second-brain-picoqeewa"},"datePublished":"2022-02-06T18:12:57.503Z","dateModified":"2022-02-07T15:36:47.384Z","description":"Two months ago I moved my notes to Obsidian, and I’ve been fairly happy with the result. 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