| > Do we all secretly believe we can be truly better people if we can just get this right? I think you're onto something here. There's definitely some magical thinking involved. We all have a hidden genius that could be unlocked - if only we would find a method to put all that mess in our heads together in the right way. We conveniently forget that if 90% of everything is crap[0], then it should apply to our own thoughts too :) My take is that notes are overrated. Almost everything I write down becomes outdated in as little as a few months. Anything older than 1 year seems ancient and is only useful for entertainment. I have my digital notes going back to 2014. I never look at them. What's not overrated is note-taking. The result doesn't matter, the act itself does. It's a thinking tool. A way to offload ideas from your head and let it do some actual thinking. If that rings true to you, then it makes sense to optimize for writing, not organizing or reading. To me that means a simple paper notebook and a gel pen. I haven't yet found anything that can beat paper in writing experience [1]. Might be an ipad or org-mode for you - literally doesn't matter, as long as you use it with pleasure. As for evergreen content, my rule is that it should be public. That's what blogs are for. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law [1] I wrote a blogpost about my primitive paper journaling system https://tadas.blog/posts/paper-journaling-system/ |