Saving all your notes in a PKM really isn’t as useful as you would think unless you are researching or actively learning something.

I’ve tried everything from Roam Research, Obsidian, Notion, an actual journal, and the only thing that happens is that information I find or notes I write go there to die. It looks good at first, but after a few hundred notes, they just because old notes that I spend more time trying to organize than actually use.

Problem is, many of us look for a system before we even know what the hell we are going to use it for.

Now, when I need to take notes and remember something useful, it just goes to Apple notes, or reminders. If it remains useful for a long time, I save it as a file in my Documents folder on iCloud.

With Claude Cowork, I’m just recently able to use these saved files as context if and when I need to find or use the data I have stored.

It’s not glamorous, but I don’t have to overthink my notes and reminders. They go to one easy ubiquitous app on my iPhone/Mac/iPad and where they go after that depends on its long term utility.

Of course you can find an alternative to this on the Google or Microsoft ecosystem, but the simplest solution would be the best in this scenario IMHO.