These two older HN comments might relate to your lines of thinking. I found both of these very insightful when I got stuck with trying out all sorts of rigid sy

These two older HN comments might relate to your lines of thinking. I found both of these very insightful when I got stuck with trying out all sorts of rigid systems, outliners, zettelkasten etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17893139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17893139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8807252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8807252