🌱 PKMs need limited chaos to flourish, substance is more important then form

Zettelkasten and Evergreen notes engagement → creativity → order

With the enormous amount of great tools that exist it might be tempting to redo your notes, when improving something. The smallest example is a better template, should you redo all your notes to reflect that new (so much better) layout? No. Seeing older versions, itterations of your notes can help to see things in a historical light. Just update when needed.

Automation can help to hide inadequacies. Just search and link to what’s needed. Sometimes a note is just a link in a chain, and the note itself is not even needed anymore.

• links are more valuable than the notes they connect
• learn to let go
• Permanent notes are intellectual creativity
• To reduce friction people should use applications or tools that fit their personality

Literature notes

author:: Mark McElroy source:: Reflections on a Year of Using Obsidian Daily - Mark McElroy

• Update Old Notes to New Formats Based on Need. As I make more and more notes, the templates I use for tracking sources and making notes evolve. - Each time this happened, I used to feel obligated to go back and overlay the new template over all my older notes. This created a massive administrative burden, and I found myself doing more maintenance than creation. - Now, I update old notes only when the work I’m doing resurfaces them (and even then, only when I feel compelled to do so). This practice updates useful notes and prevents me from investing time updating old notes that aren’t supporting my work. only update relevant notes
• He used to feel obligated to update old notes, now updates when needed
  • now only updates when runs into them when relevant

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–How to Take Smart Notes - Sönke Ahrens

Fleeting notes

don’t be overly organized, PKMs need limited chaos for creation

• form over substance
  • updating old notes to make them look a certain way is busy-work
    • it might feel like an obligation, but there is really no need
      • need to embrace the permanent non-clean state of a PKM
        • PKM = WIP
          • premature optimization
            • stifles innovation
              • creation needs limited chaos
      • outlines can fold things
      • don’t look at pages that are irrelevant to the current task