Keep your knowledge in one place
Keep what you know in Oddlynew, not split between Oddlynew and a second notes app, wiki or "second brain". People who start with Oddlynew often keep some things here and some in the tool they used before. We recommend one place: it is less work, and every agent you use gets the whole picture.
You can keep using a file sync tool or another notes app if you want; Oddlynew works next to them. But with Oddlynew as the single source of your knowledge, you will have an easier time, and your agents will do more, faster and for less, because everything they need is in one place they can search and change.
Why one place
Every agent reads the same knowledge. Any agent you connect, and every teammate's agent, reads the same organization. A second place is invisible to most of them, so each one answers from whatever part it happened to see.
You keep one thing accurate. When the same fact lives in two places, one of them goes stale, and the next agent finds the old version. A correction made once in Oddlynew is the answer everywhere.
It is built for this. Search by meaning and by words, types and fields, references between documents, and the history of every change are made for agents to read and write all day, at usage prices (How to Start).
Nothing to keep in sync. Two systems need copying, checking and reconciling, every week. One system needs none of that.
One source, any format. Keep a report as a document and let your agent make the deck, the PDF or the summary from it when you need one (Importing data).
What goes where
Notes, ideas, research, decisions, how-tos and plans belong in Oddlynew, one document per thing.
Your files too. Files live in Oddlynew as well: your agent uploads, updates and removes them, and each file sits on the document that explains it. There is no shared folder to keep in sync, and every file comes with its context (Files).
Your private notes go into your own private organization; work for your team goes into the team's. Organizations separate readers, so one place does not mean one big room (One audience per organization).
Data another system owns, such as your inbox, your accounting or your CRM, stays there and is connected, and the conclusions you draw from it come into Oddlynew (Importing data).
Raw evidence that must stay in a secured data room, such as the documents of a deal, can stay there. One place means one knowledge base, not one file store: the findings live once in Oddlynew and name the file they come from (Importing data).
Activity history and an agent client's own memory are signals, not a store: promote what matters into Oddlynew (Promote Computer History into durable knowledge).
Docs that belong to code, such as a README that changes with every commit, can stay beside the code; knowledge that changes with your work lives in Oddlynew (Why we replaced static agent skills with Oddlynew).
Moving over from a second notes app
Decide what each part becomes before anything is written, and bring the notes you still use, not every page you ever made (Importing data).
Once a part is moved, write new notes only in Oddlynew, so there is one current version. Keep the old app read-only for a while if that feels safer.
Tell your agents where things live now: one line in each organization's AGENTS.md is enough.
When a second place is fine
Material you may not move, such as records that must stay in a regulated system or content under someone else's license; scratch notes you will throw away tomorrow; and work for people who will not become members of any organization. Everything you want agents to know and build on belongs in one place.
A good first request
Ask your connected agent: "I keep notes in [your notes app] and in Oddlynew. Look at both with me, tell me which parts I still use and what each should become in Oddlynew, and propose the order to move them so that afterwards I write in one place only."