If I only had a brain

I've been toying the idea of creating an auxillary brain for myself. No, nothing doctor Frankenstein. Think of it of a reference of everything I think it might be useful for me to know at some point in the future. Much of the motivation comes from work, where I'll periodically figure out something really obscure. If I save it in an ordinary file, I'll never be able to find it when I need it. If I don't, I'll end up re-inventing the wheel. I also tend to need the same thing at home, with recipe hints, things I want to do later. I save bits of paper, but for someone with my varied and changing interests that quickly becomes worse than not saving anything.

I toyed with the idea of using livejournal and tags, but I can see two downsides to that. 1. I don't access my livejournal from work, nor do I ever intend to. Keeping work in a separate world from home is sensibly and legally a good idea. 2. I feel all the stuff that I have to braindump is of interest only to myself. It's not like most of the things I'll be putting in there are complete thoughts, just bits that I want to deal with later. It would be even less interesting than my LJ, which sets a pretty high standard in uninteresting.

So I'm thinking a file on my PC formatted so that I can use a utility to make it into an ebook and load it easy on my reader. Getting that figured out and set up is certainly on my short list. Now if I can just find my shortlist.