Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good

Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by slt2021 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @07:50PM (#36146054)

forget & rediscover & recombine old knowledge with new knowledge to synthesize new ideas.

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by fsckboy on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @09:20PM (#36146592)

so in other words, not actually forget... a pov with which i agree

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by dizhn on Thursday June 01, 2023 @04:24AM (#36148713)

I am not sure about the rediscover part or that there's any synergy going on there. For me the value of notes is that they cure my "fear of forgetting". File it away knowing that it will be there if it's necessary. I don't have to spend mental energy and have the nagging feeling of losing something. You can then accumulate new things and do the same thing to them if they are not immediately useful/necessary. This is the gist of what I got from the part of the GTD book I read too. Though everybody is different of course.

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by systems_glitch on Thursday June 01, 2023 @08:16AM (#36150092)

That's why we all have massive ZFS pools, right? It's so much easier to "blow away" a workstation and move on to a new one when you know you have the entire disk saved :P

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Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good by systems_glitch on Thursday June 01, 2023 @08:17AM (#36150095)

Shoulders of giants.

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