Are Your Note-Taking Apps Clogged Like a Toilet?
How to Unclog Your Notes
Common Sense Advice (that isn’t that common)
Most of our note-taking is no better than a clogged toilet.
We stuff our apps with many useless notes that we barely use.
If that’s you, here’s the question:
What would you do if you had a clogged toilet?
The first thing you would probably do is stop throwing things into it, right?
(Well, at least, this is what I would do.)
The issue, though, is that we start realizing that our way of taking notes isn’t working only after it’s already too late.
Our apps are already clogged with hundreds — if not thousands of useless notes.
The toilet is already overflowing.
Who to blame?
The freakin’ toilet or our way of doing things?
Well, often, it’s nothing else than our mistake.
Throw, Flush, Forget
Because what we do with our note-taking apps is the following:
We just throw ideas into them, flush them, and then forget them.
We’re living in an illusion of “going to come back later”, which is nothing else than FOMO applied to information.
Because guess what?
“Later” almost never happens.
We lack methodology — but hey, that’s normal.
Nobody ever taught us how to deal with so many interesting things that we encounter every day. In fact, if you think about it: information overload is a consequence of our modern world.
It was never easier to spread, share, and consume information than it is today.
So if you want to unclog your note-taking app, the first thing to do is reconsider your relationship to information.
Stop capturing everything along your way, and be more mindful about what you consume and capture.
Easier said than done, right?
👉This is why I’ve created a FREE 7-Day Email Course Called “How to Take Better Notes”. You can access it for free by clicking here (safe link to my website).
— Matt “unclog that toilet” Giaro
