Prompts from the guide

Notion vs. Obsidian vs. Built-In Notes Apps: What to Pick

One prompt from this guide. Fill in whatever sits in [square brackets] — your own context, the document text or the name of your tool. That context is exactly what separates a generic answer from a usable one.

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Pro tip

I'll describe how I currently work with notes, and I want you
to propose a system, not recommend an app.

What I write down: [e.g. meeting notes, ideas, client notes, excerpts from articles]
Where it lives now: [app, roughly how many notes, for how long]
When I come back to it: [a specific time I looked for something and couldn't find it]
Who besides me needs access to it: [no one / colleagues / the whole team]
What annoys me most about it right now: [describe in your own words]

Propose:
1. Three to five types of notes that genuinely arise in my day-to-day,
   and for each, one sentence on what it must contain to be useful later.
2. Where capture should happen and where processing should happen,
   whether they should be different places.
3. One weekly routine round, twenty minutes long.
4. Only at the end: which category of tool fits this — database,
   linking, or built-in — and why. For each, note what I'd be sacrificing.

Don't recommend specific products until after you've described the system.

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