Summary

Notes should be linked to deliberately chosen life purposes.

Content

There is only so much time and You can't do everything. At some point you have to choose your specialism.

This leads me to consider my notes in the .

The is not a resource silo; it is a way to develop and update my ideas.

I have my ‣ for resources.

I have my for making notes on interesting resources.

The purpose of the is to develop my own ideas and grow the interesting ones from seeds to oaks.

Note taking without a purpose is self-absorbing rather than supportive for real-world purposes.

Notes should ideally be linked to a purpose. I have some ‣ (Life Foundations (purpose, vision, goals, intentions etc.)), but the properties of my notes in the forest are already quite complex. Simplicity lasts longer than complexity and Simplicity is attractive and so I should Cling to simplicity in the complexity and keep the properties as uncluttered as possible.

Nevertheless, notes should help the note-taker move towards some of their life purposes, otherwise they are merely another distraction from them.