[Apocryphon]

It’s like self-help: in principle it’s supposed to help people and in practice if it does, that’s great. But in practice, the content is inevitably over-stuffed with padding, which sorts of contradicts the very principle of getting stuff done and not wasting time.

The productivity genre also never seems to provide empirical data to back up their recommendations. Like it would be great if these gurus actually conducted experiments into the best notes-taking systems. Evaluate them against each other with real results.

Oh, you say that every person’s best system is going to be different? Then maybe an innovation in this genre should be helping readers figure out which system should be best for the self, rather trying to prescribe one-size fits all systems and merchandising it with bullet journals and paid tools and the like.