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Austin Govella on the IA of Note-taking

The Informed Life

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Is Structure a Good Thing?

structure works as a kind of scaffolding at the beginning, before you have built the habits that make that structure unnecessary somehow. If future you won't remember what tag you use for behavior, andthif thou're oing to use a different tag, then it's worth having the tags written down so you just can remind future you about what it was. I find that i delet more notes now than i make, which i think is very interesting. I deleat lots of notes. And maybe that helps unjetano rambling now, but maybe that makes sure that you can retrieve stuff better. Or when you hit the system, you can actually just work without things being in your way

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