Thought folks here might be interested in this. Not my site.
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That's unusual I guess. Personally there's no way I would erase all my notes, which include all kind of important documents, user manuals and notes I often need to refer to, as well as various notes for ongoing projects.
I suppose if it causes them anxiety, it's probably wise to address it. I suspect the real source of their anxiety isn't really the number of notes they have.
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Creating a correlation between note-taking apps[1] and Borges's The Library of Babel is amazing! If you don't know the book, I recommend you to read it or at least its summary.
Although, I don't agree with the guy, I really love how he thinks about the topic.
especially the ones that have backlinking and graph view ↩︎
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It’s still an interesting note, and it makes me think.
Especially for those of us who, at some point, discovered—or felt—that spending time to takes notes, including data, thoughts, ideas, reflections, etc, gives me real benefits for my personal and professional development.
I have to admit that even though the piece is appealing because it’s disruptive and different, it also pushes me to reflect on why we even keep these kinds of records.
And even if I don’t agree with most, if not all, of what’s written, I do recognize that it helped me strengthen the habit of taking notes—especially the kind I’ve learned are truly meaningful over the time.
But why deleting them: if they’re not useful, just don’t read them or write more. But what’s the point of erasing them? Maybe that urge is part of the same "mental noise".
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The cynic in me would say because it wouldn't make as good of a blog post, lol. But it's an interesting perspective on how creating a PKM can go wrong.
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This is an interesting text about transience, based on notes taken using an app; and of course about psychology.
But the man is right about one thing: calling a note-taking app a 'second brain' is misleading, but it's a great slogan. Designating it a secondary memory would be more precise, though considerably less alluring to most of us.
Thx for sharing @whitewall.
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The problem is not note-taking, but there's a live lesson learned. She used Obsidian, Atomic, Zettelkasten, concept maps, Apple Note .. How many info can you hoard?
Dealing with information is also choose what to keep and what to remove. That's a big thing in life: you can't do everything, you have to choose. And deal with your choice.
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I think Joplin for mobile should make the latter easier. +1 for swiping gestures!
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