Okay! Before you declare me crazy and ask “How the hell can anyone build a second braing using Next.JS?” Let me tell you that I am not talking abou...
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Very Nice Work ! You can create your second brain on Notion instead . It will be easier .
Yeah, I thought of that too.. but having an isolated space just for development purpose is better. Coz this way I don't get distracted by all my future todos and calendars that I've setup for myself on notion. Moreover, with MDX I can create my own components which can be used to show interactive demonstration of the topic I am writing notes about.
Try obsidian maybe..
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely check it out!
I love Obsidian. It's amazing because everything is just plain markdown, but there's so many useful features and plugins if you want more complex functionality.
Don't you need to pay for Notion past a certain point though?
I'm not against paid software at all, but I feel like for something such as a second brain or personal knowledge base which will grow exponentially over time, any service which holds your notes hostage by requiring payment is off the table.
Well tbh I have been using it for a couple of years now. It didn't come to that point for me yet.
Yep! Why reinvent the wheel
Seems like a good solution for also pairing it with learning this tech. I've been looking for a good snippet friendly storage system and recently found dendron which is a vscode based second brain. Not installed it yet but it looks quite promising.
Thanks for mentioning dendron Matthew. I never knew about it. Will definitely try it out!
To add to this conversation: Dendron also has built-in publishing features to publish your Markdown notes/docs with their own Next.js based static site generator.
I am in the process of creating a portfolio website and I am horrible at web development. Can I use Obsidian, Nextra or Notion for it? or any other helpful software? I just need a simple website nothing fancy.
How would you compare your solution to gollum (the git based wiki, not the lotr char 😉)?
Just asking bc just rn I'm also looking for a solution in that direction. And notion, which I also considered, doesn't seem to allow selfhosting (am I wrong?).
I assume your solution can be better web optimized while gollum can be better print optimized and working with citatations and tables etc is probably easier with gollum. But I would really like to hear your opinion since you are probably much deeper in that topic than I am 🙂
This is very interesting Shaan, great work 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks Kaushal 😄
Welcome ^_^
Notion.
Yeah, Notion is great!
Wow, Thanks for that I will definately use this for learning new stuff
Glad you found it useful! 😄
I use Joplin for the past 4 years, and it's great.
Thanks for recommending Razvan! 😄
I have something like it on GH
github.com/damianc/dev-notes
Great!!
We did our Documentation with Docusaurus.
Most of those chapters even rank really well in search engines.
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Snap I didn't know Nextra is a thing. Definitely going to check it out.