u/Agr_Kushal

Honest question for this sub: do your notes actually stay useful, or do they just accumulate? Mine pile up over years and I basically never go back to the old ones, even though I keep meaning to.

The idea I've been sitting on: something that resurfaces old notes for me instead of relying on willpower to revisit them: a short daily read built from my own notes, a few older ones brought back around a theme, plus it flags notes that clearly connect but that I never linked. Runs locally, works with any markdown.

It's not built: just an idea and a rough landing page at this point. Before I sink real time into it I'd rather know if it solves a problem other people actually have.

https://againpage.com

What do you currently do to keep old notes from rotting? Anything work, or is this just my problem?

Honest question for this sub: do your notes actually stay useful, or do they just accumulate? Mine pile up over years and I basically never go back to the old ones, even though I keep meaning to.

The idea I've been sitting on: something that resurfaces old notes for me instead of relying on willpower to revisit them: a short daily read built from my own notes, a few older ones brought back around a theme, plus it flags notes that clearly connect but that I never linked. Runs locally or using frontier models your choice really, works with any markdown.

It's not built: just an idea and a rough landing page at this point. Before I sink real time into it I'd rather know if it solves a problem other people actually have.

https://againpage.com

What do you currently do to keep old notes from rotting? Anything work, or is this just my problem?

I've kept notes for years and I've realised I almost never revisit the old ones. I always tell myself I'll review them and just don't, so they pile up and quietly go stale. Feels like hoarding stuff I'll never look at again.

I've been toying with an idea to fix it for myself: instead of me going back to the notes, something that brings them back to me: a short morning read pulled from my own old notes, a few resurfaced around a theme so I actually re-meet things I'd forgotten I wrote. It'd also point out notes that clearly relate but that I never linked.

Nothing built yet, just the idea and a rough landing page while I figure out if it's worth doing.

https://againpage.com

So, genuinely asking the people here: do you have this problem too? And if you do, is there anything you already use for it or is rereading old notes just something nobody really does?

I've got years of notes across a bunch of topics that I always told myself I'd go back and review. I never do. They just sit there going stale.

So I'm trying to flip it: instead of me going to the notes, the notes come to me. The idea: every morning it reads my markdown folder and writes up a short "issue" from my own notes. Pulls a few related ones together around a theme, points out connections between things I'd totally forgotten I'd written, throws in a couple of questions to think about. Meant to read like a calm newspaper, not another app to manage.

Local-first (notes never leave your machine), works with any markdown: Obsidian, Logseq, plain files, bring your own API key or run a fully local model. Source-available.

Full disclosure: it's not built yet. I'm testing whether this is actually useful to people or just a me-problem before I sink months into it.

https://againpage.com/

Two things I'd genuinely love feedback on:

- Do you actually go back and reread old notes? If yes, how do you make it stick?

- Any features you'd want or is this just a problem I have?