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Welcome to Weekly Wonderings, a newsletter exploring the journey towards Digital Self-Actualization: realizing our meaningful potential through the synthesis of digital tools, life management systems, and humanistic philosophies.
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Here's a quick galactic overview of this edition 🌌:

• ​An app to augment your short-term memory 🧠​
• ​On rekindling old passions 🔥​
• ​The series that has been intellectually and behaviorally challenging me 🤯​
• ​A new podcast episode 🎧​
• ​Obsidian for executives 💼​

An app to augment your short-term memory 🧠

Obsidian has been a powerful tool for augmenting my long-term memory.

It helps me deeply encode knowledge and experiences through Note-making, manage my life with productivity systems, and store essential ideas I’ll need to return to in the future.

But is there a similar tool for our short-term memory?

Unfortunately, my ADHD symptoms of inattentiveness, impulsivity, and poor working memory only amplify my need for external tools to accommodate my biological limitations.

When ideas are most fleeting, like on walks, I can’t just pull out my phone, open Obsidian, wait for it to load, look for the note I wanted to write, and finally type my thoughts. The initial spark would’ve been gone, smothered by many distractions and related ideas.

Instead, could this be as frictionless as conversing with your phone or smartwatch?

I can already achieve this by using the native text-to-speech typing option on my keyboard, but if the text is a long ramble with lots of filler words, it will take me extra time to clean it up.

What if your thoughts could be automatically refined into an ideal format with respect to what you said?

Automatic titles, formatting, and transcription cleaning while still preserving the way you think...