
All content is stored safely and securely on my local hard drive (good for backups) but is at the same time shared (encrypted) through a Cloud provider with my different mobile devices and computers. DEVONthinkĭEVONthink is my main tool to store content: Text, images, documents, and much more. These don’t change too often-if at all-and I use them for many years. Toolsīefore I go into details of the different media types and how I process them, I want to mention my main tools. I started using the Zettelkasten note-taking method a year ago and this essay is an overview of the different types of content and how and with what tools I process them. The only way to remember things is by writing them down, creating connections between them, and regularly revisiting them. But few people take the time to extract the valuable parts from the content they are consuming.Īs I wrote in my previous essay Zettelkasten Note-Taking Method With DEVONthink we are prone to the Collectors Fallacy, the belief that consuming information enables us automatically to remember and apply this knowledge later. We consume content for entertainment, to be informed, or to learn and grow. Everybody is consuming content, through books, articles, videos, podcasts, or other media.
