![]() This kind of an “infinite room” or “infinite paper” behaves like our memory. This infinite notebook would reflect the way we learn – we would connect related ideas together to trace out a web of memories, and label and sort them for future recollection. In this way, we’d construct an infinite transcript of our thoughts that was our life’s canvas for ideas. In a perfect world, when you stumbled across a new idea that relates back to a previous memory, you’d simply take a pencil and draw arrows from this new idea all the way back to the ideas that came before. Every idea you have would have a place here. What if, on a single sheet of paper that lasts an entire lifetime, you could inscribe every thought you’ve ever had? It would be the written version of Jess’s infinite room for thought. We could live in an infinite room for thought: In an ideal world, we won’t have to forget things from our minds and workspaces. Without the right tools, our minds are hopelessly leaky. These are the shower thoughts and ideas that slip past you so elusively, and to-dos that you let yourself forget because they’ll come back if they’re really that important. In these 90% are things you pick up in conversations, only to forget by the next minute. But the vast majority of thoughts we think – the other 90% – still hold underrated, underestimated latent value. By this, I mean: Most productivity solutions focus on the 10% of our thoughts that are easy to categorize and structure, like lecture notes, meeting minutes, people’s contacts, and highlights of readings. The mind is like an iceberg: most of our everyday thoughts go unnoticed. ![]() It helps us quickly answer questions like, “What did this person tell me?” “What should I remember about this topic?” “What things am I currently working on?” We think tens of thousands of thoughts every single day, and the job of a good note-taking system is to help us make the most of them, even when our squishy, biological brains can’t.Ĭuriously, most of the thoughts we think are not what traditional note-taking apps consider “important”. ![]()
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