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Wow, does this ring true for me. I had been using Evernote for at least 7 years, then switched to Notion a few years ago, completely "reinventing my digital lif
by kopkako 5y ago
Wow, does this ring true for me.
I had been using Evernote for at least 7 years, then switched to Notion a few years ago, completely "reinventing my digital life" and creating my "Second Brain" with the P.A.R.A method by Tiago Forte.
I loved that for the first few months, then slowly but surely the sheer amount of interconnected nodes became... oberwhelming, to the point of me almost completely stopping to enter in new data.
I recently realized that I kind of hated my Second Brain, and did a painful migration away from it, to the stupidly simple Notes.app (the built-in Apple one).
Feels much better now: Less worrying about bloat, I deleted a bunch of stuff and do less procrastinating and fiddling about with the structure of it all.
- Melatonic 5y agoSome stuff must be digital of course but I always find paper notebooks superior in the end. Something about physically writing it down makes me remember it better. And even though they can become disorganized I like occasionally flipping through an old one - it often triggers memories associated with the time I wrote the note or people I worked with that I would not get with digital files. I think the other thing is it forces you to be more space conscious - you do not have unlimited real estate. Large notebook for some things, smaller handbook for portable, and notes that are compressed or adjusted for each.
- civilized 5y agoA lot of technical people think to themselves "if I master this tool, something wonderful will happen," when in reality you usually have to figure out the wonderful thing you want to happen, not just trust a tool to manifest it for you.
- lolcat_cowsay 5y agoExactly, you have to know what you wanted to do before mastering the tool in the first place, this is true for a lot of things not just note-taking systems.