The author is trapped in a delusion. Hopefully temporary. He makes a set of hard judgments that are rather arbitrary. For instance, he says it would be better to be presented scratch notes instead of a blank page. But the editor can’t know what I want to write or do. A blank page can be a heuristic for new capture.

And there is a heuristic called the forward-backward method, which involves thinking backward from a conclusion to the premises. I often use it when I write. That means starting from a title or a template for the final form of the work and then filling it in. I wrote a book, once, by copying the format of another book I found at the bookstore and just replacing it with my content.

There are many ways to go about creating things. I don’t want tools that constrain me to one “best” way.