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Why taking notes still matters

May 11, 2026 14 minute read #notes, #work, #obsidian, #ai

AI tools have radically changed note taking. All you need to do is record/transcribe your meeting and your favourite AI tool will write your notes for you. Magic! As a result I’ve noticed a lot of people stop taking notes altogether and delegating the whole thing to tools like Copilot. After all, why write notes if the AI generated notes in Microsoft Teams are going to be more comrehensive and complete with no effort required on your part?
Why don't my markdown titles work sometimes?

Mar 14, 2025 3 minute read #markdown, #github, #obsidian, #hugo, #sphinx, #myst

I write a lot of markdown. I use it on GitHub when creating issues/PRs, I use it in Obsidian when I take notes, I use it in Hugo when writing blog posts (like this one), I use it in Jupyter Notebooks when working with data and I use it in Sphinx with MyST when writing documentation.

Why taking notes still matters