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Same here, but in my notes app. Been doing it for years.

And if I may expand a little, not just for crappy Google, I also create alternative local knowledge bases at work.

I can't find anything at work. Everything is spread out across chat, Wikis, SharePoint, email. All having different owners, content may at any time disappear or move, there's constant authorization headaches.

Whenever I come across something useful that I expect to be of some future use, I make a local copy. File, web page, wiki, anything. Because our information systems are a massive failure.



I think this is typical of most work places. Our ability to maintain good knowledge bases has essentially collapsed. Every coding task at work I basically start with reverse-engineering the system because no one really knows how it all works anymore.




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