Highlights
- The problem is we ascribe value to our thoughts and findings.
- They took time to think up and find; they’ve got to be worth something
- So we try again. This next app will be the one true way. We had the philosophy all wrong before.
- Evernote to OneNote, Moleskins to Field Notes, Roam to Obsidian. We blame the tools, the techniques. Surely they’re to blame. A new app will be better.
- Then we dump our newest thoughts into it, try the latest features to organize notes, until we’re back to safely forgetting things. Then the illusion gets shattered again, and we’re on to the next new thing.
- You’ll come across those best ideas again and again; your notes end up merely being a record of when you first encountered the idea.