At first I thought the problem was friction: the higher the activation energy to using a tool, the less likely you are to use it (View Highlight)
Todo Lists: I used to write todo lists in the daily entries in my personal wiki. But this is very spartan: what about recurring tasks, due dates, reminders, etc.? Now I am a very happy user of Todoist (which has increased my productivity at least 150%) and I’m not looking back. (View Highlight)
It takes practice and discipline to write good spaced repetition flashcards, but once you do, the long-form prose notes are themselves redundant. (View Highlight)
I also tried writing notes to ensure I understand something first, and then translating them to flash cards. I’ve found that, usually, all this does is add an extra layer of friction with no benefit.3 (View Highlight)
RemNote combines long-form prose notes and flashcards in the same interface. The result is that both look like a mess (View Highlight)
People have this aspirational idea of building a vast, oppressively colossal, deeply interlinked knowledge graph to the point that it almost mirrors every discrete concept and memory in their brain. And I get the appeal of maximalism. But they’re counting on the wrong side of the ledger. Every node in your knowledge graph is a debt. Every link doubly so. The more you have, the more in the red you are. Every node that has utility—an interesting excerpt from a book, a pithy quote, a poem, a fiction fragment, a few sentences that are the seed of a future essay, a list of links that are the launching-off point of a project—is drowned in an ocean of banality. Most of our thoughts appear and pass away instantly, for good reason. (View Highlight)
the main drawback is: you don’t need it (View Highlight)
How often, truly, do you find yourself wanting to link a task in your todo list app to a file in Dropbox? (View Highlight)
At first I thought the problem was friction: the higher the activation energy to using a tool, the less likely you are to use it (View Highlight)
Todo Lists: I used to write todo lists in the daily entries in my personal wiki. But this is very spartan: what about recurring tasks, due dates, reminders, etc.? Now I am a very happy user of Todoist (which has increased my productivity at least 150%) and I’m not looking back. (View Highlight)
It takes practice and discipline to write good spaced repetition flashcards, but once you do, the long-form prose notes are themselves redundant. (View Highlight)
I also tried writing notes to ensure I understand something first, and then translating them to flash cards. I’ve found that, usually, all this does is add an extra layer of friction with no benefit.3 (View Highlight)
RemNote combines long-form prose notes and flashcards in the same interface. The result is that both look like a mess (View Highlight)
People have this aspirational idea of building a vast, oppressively colossal, deeply interlinked knowledge graph to the point that it almost mirrors every discrete concept and memory in their brain. And I get the appeal of maximalism. But they’re counting on the wrong side of the ledger. Every node in your knowledge graph is a debt. Every link doubly so. The more you have, the more in the red you are. Every node that has utility—an interesting excerpt from a book, a pithy quote, a poem, a fiction fragment, a few sentences that are the seed of a future essay, a list of links that are the launching-off point of a project—is drowned in an ocean of banality. Most of our thoughts appear and pass away instantly, for good reason. (View Highlight)
the main drawback is: you don’t need it (View Highlight)
How often, truly, do you find yourself wanting to link a task in your todo list app to a file in Dropbox? (View Highlight)
