But anything else is sort of like these jokes, they go into a place where I have a specific way to use them. Yes, I have what's basically a trash bin where notes go to die. This may start a new branch of a joke.Īpply this to every reason I might add a note. Or I'll see multiple lines which hit me and I can come up with something which mixes the two together. Like, I'll see a line and immediately think of something which could extend it. One approach is that if I feel like I got nothing, I can simply scan the list and find something which hits me. All I would have to do is open this page and they would jump out at me. Sometimes I think of a snippet which could extend an existing bit (a joke which is larger than a one liner.) Once this page got to a certain length, I didn't even have to think about new snippets anymore. Each snippet that I think of as a joke, I write down in a note. As a programmer, I have specific workflows for each note that I take.Įxample. The trouble is that people try to fit the kitchen sink into the note app and that doesn't work. These articles are as bad as the notes people they are bagging on. On one side we should have Chrome, on the other end should be Joplin or Obsidian. The browser extends into the global but we have not yet discovered that the browser should extend the other way, into the personal. In addition: what other sites were you looking at around that time? What city were you in? What was the weather in that city at that time? Sounds silly, but this sort of info can jog your memory. The ability to create a "view" of your bookmarks organized chronologically would be another useful tool. That's such a basic thing that is missing. The bookmarks in Chrome do not even tell you the date/time you added them. In Slack you can find individual messages which match a pattern, but you can also expand to see the entire context of that message with date and time. Something like macOS Spotlight, but more contextual. We have Slack, we have Google, but we do not have anything that is personal. You have some tiny thread of memory than you want to input into a system and have that system bring back the webpages and context. With Google, and especially Slack, what I've discovered is resurfacing is more important than organization. I've been thinking about this problem for some time now. > then i ended up with soooo many bookmarks If you believe you wouldn't do that, you have to consider then why, and that is innately tied to the pattern-finding structure of our brain.Ĭreatives may cling to a lost node as the Rosetta stone, perhaps assigning more weight than is qualified, but then you won't actually know unless you find and explore that branch of thought. It's so you don't run outside and start looking under rocks. Why do we retrace our steps when we misplace something? What does that have to do with anything? It's the scaffolding structure around which we build a mental model. You could counter with "then it wasn't a good idea if you didn't remember it" but it's the structure of how we think rather than the quality of the outputs. Interruption resolves, you say "and now back to.what was I saying?" In that moment, the value or proposition might have only been an argument or segue towards a broader point, or a sub-digression, but without that connective node, the entire pattern is lost. It needs to be the next step in the branch consider being in a conversation when some interruption happens.