I've started letting most notes “expire” (many are on paper that eventually gets forgotten or deliberately thrown away) rather than making any effort to reorgan

I've started letting most notes “expire” (many are on paper that eventually gets forgotten or deliberately thrown away) rather than making any effort to reorganise them over time, but I still make them. I find the process of transcribing makes me think of side issues and other connections that I might otherwise miss, much like explaining something to another person does. Having made the notes and those connections, I'm more likely to remember enough so that I can easily rethink the rest of the details (or find them online if that was the original source) should I need to in future. > "search don't sort" ... stopped filing ... with a decent search, I saved so much time. Similarly, what notes I do keep long term are in a bunch of text files which I can search easily or Google Keep (more the former ATM, Keep I use mostly for short term lists & reminders now).