From my impression, the way you get good at OSINT is knowing which types of information tend to be related, and where to go with what you have. All OSINT guide

From my impression, the way you get good at OSINT is knowing which types of information tend to be related, and where to go with what you have. All OSINT guides include a surprising amount of paid tools. OSINT tools are dime a dozen, you have to know how to use them. Finding tools is easy, there are endless collections of them: - https://osintframework.com/ https://osintframework.com/ - https://github.com/jivoi/awesome-osint https://github.com/jivoi/awesome-osint - https://cylect.io/ https://cylect.io/ The hard part is deciding when, where, how, and with what information to use them. I am surprised how little information about OSINT is on hackernews (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=OSINT https://hn.algolia.com/?query=OSINT barely has results) If you are not some journalist, you won't need serious OSINT. (Investigating someone for fun?) You can play geoguesser for fun. That's "technically" OSINT and you will know geography. Here is a Geoguesser (Rainbolt) player finding places from images: https://www.youtube.com/@georainbolt/videos https://www.youtube.com/@georainbolt/videos Here are some OSINT challenges if you want: https://gralhix.com/list-of-osint-exercises/ https://gralhix.com/list-of-osint-exercises/ A skill I recommend much more than OSINT is being good at normal searching and collecting some basic metadata, and getting the gist of new topics quickly. - You want to buy something, how do you figure out the price, quality, and whether it is a good deal. How to quickly figure out what matters and what doesn't? Which features are common, which false advertised, which are aesthetic bloat. - You are traveling or moving to a new city, how do you quickly figure out all the tricks locals know and not fall for tourist cash grabs. - You find a shady website, app, or chrome extension. Pocke around with the source code and domain names to round up the entire operation and report it. - Some new person you got to know works/likes something you know little about. How do you quickly figure out some deeper questions to ask. - Find what an error in your computer. It boils down to knowing the underlying structure of whatever you are digging. Insiders tend to know ecosystem so well it seems obvious, despite it being hard to integrate into for an outsider.