An exocortex is an external information processing system that augments the brain's biological high-level cognitive processes.
You may think what exocortex is just a new/fancy name for the good old /Knowledge base. This Wiki for example I (/who/astynax) was planned to use as my exobrain (yep, another fancy word).
- /Digital Garden
- Zettelkasten
- Some sort of outliner
- Wikis (like this one)
- "Files in folders"
A way to link small notes and can use such links to get some insights about the big areas of information.
Software:
- Zetteldeft for /Emacs
- Zettr
- Neuron Zettelkasten, "a future-proof open-source app for managing your plain-text notes in Zettelkasten style", written in /Haskell
- any notetaking app that supports crosslinking and tagging (Obsidian, Roam, Org mode...)
- "How to take smart notes: 10 pronciples to revolutionize your note-taking and writing", a quick intro to Zettelkasten and author's thoughts about the "How to take smart notes" book
- "Living with a Zettelkasten"
- "A curated list of awesome Public Zettelkastens/Second Brains/Digital Gardens"
- "A curated list of amazingly awesome articles, people, applications, software libraries and projects related to the knowledge management space"
Trees of nodes. Each node is a note.
Usually, Wiki is a Web-app but it can be also in a form of a desktop app.
- Gitit (powers this wiki, written in [/Haskell])
- IkiWiki an old one, simplistic, lightweight, Perl-driven
- Mycorrhiza, "Filesystem and git-based wiki engine". Lightweight and capable to run on systems like Raspberry Pi (here is a wiki about it)
A way to keep all the info in the file system and have some sort of indexing over it.