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NoteBar: An AI-Assisted Note-Taking System for Personal Knowledge Management
Josh Wisoff, Yao Tang, Zhengyu Fang, Jordan Guzman, YuTang Wang, Alex Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03610

NoteBar: An AI-Assisted Note-Taking System for Personal Knowledge Management
Note-taking is a critical practice for capturing, organizing, and reflecting on information in both academic and professional settings. The recent success of large language models has accelerated the development of AI-assisted tools, yet existing solutions often struggle with efficiency. We present NoteBar, an AI-assisted note-taking tool that leverages persona information and efficient language models to automatically organize notes into multiple categories and better support user workflows. T…

How People Manage Knowledge in their "Second Brains"- A Case Study with Industry Researchers Using Obsidian
Juliana Jansen Ferreira, Vin\'icius Segura, Joana Gabriela Souza, Joao Henrique Gallas Brasil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20187

How People Manage Knowledge in their "Second Brains"- A Case Study with Industry Researchers Using Obsidian
People face overwhelming information during work activities, necessitating effective organization and management strategies. Even in personal lives, individuals must keep, annotate, organize, and retrieve knowledge from daily routines. The collection of records for future reference is known as a personal knowledge base. Note-taking applications are valuable tools for building and maintaining these bases, often called a ''second brain''. This paper presents a case study on how people build and e…