Surely the point there is that you should feel like you can write your idea down any way you want, instead of being bound by an extremely tightly constrained fo

Surely the point there is that you should feel like you can write your idea down any way you want, instead of being bound by an extremely tightly constrained form that only lets you put very specific things in certain places. Your tool is a blank sheet of paper and a pen; it's not in your way at all. "This year was a good year: I made $100,000 at my job although I did lose $500 in the stock market."