> Why do you feel the need to "structure thoughts" and "get it out of your system"? I give you a simple example. If you play Wordle and you stop to think about

> Why do you feel the need to "structure thoughts" and "get it out of your system"? I give you a simple example. If you play Wordle and you stop to think about your next guess, you can make all the possible permutations in your brain. This is possible with the downside that you might start to think in loops and consider the same word-pattern over and over again. Or you write them down and solve the next guess by doing all permutations on paper (or a text editor). Note-taking is somewhat similar. Structuring thoughts for me means that I write them down to avoid looping around the same thing all the time. I get it out of my system, because my brain isn't stuck in the same loop. Note-taking helps to speed up the passive brain processing task in some cases. Not always. Not for everything.