I am never sure which notes I am going to reference again. Most of my daily notes go unread forever. But occasionally, that seemingly trivial thing that I jotted down in a meeting turns out to be _very_ important. I have AI assistants that take notes for me too, but somehow I can’t stop taking notes in meetings - and occasionally this has saved me (note taker bugged out).
Daily notes are also where I do a lot of scratch pad thinking, and occasionally those come in handy as well.
I agree here. When I take notes more formally in a structured way, I often feel like there isn't a good place to store something. Or I think something is so scrappy that it doesn't "deserve" to be a note in a carefully curated store, so I don't write it down.
When taking daily notes... I can just literally fire anything into the note and forget about it.
If it's something I'm actively working on, it'll be in a note from a couple of days back.
If it's something more historic, it can sit gathering dust and I never need to worry about it and maybe if I need something I can just search over the notes files.
That’s an easy thing to measure, but that doesn’t make it a good measure.
A note is valuable when it aids your thinking, problem solving, recall, etc. How many times you visit it is irrelevant. Some of my most valuable notes were ones I visited once or twice. Some were valuable because I just wrote it down; that was enough to aid my memory or thinking.
Proxy metrics are more harmful than the worst data-hoarding habits. See: JIRA