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What note-taking app has *actually* helped you grow your thinking in unexpected ways?
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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 31, 2023 at 11:19 AM
Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but the first thing that comes to my mind is Evernote. Once my notes reached a critical mass, probably around 10,000, it became really useful.
By then it contained a good part of the important background information related to my work and interests. This meant that most of the times I would ask myself “now what was it that I had read sometime ago on that topic?” a quick search in Evernote would give me something of value to help me further advance my thinking. I would say that it became for me a real-life Memex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
Previously, I would probably have started a web search, come up with a mutltitude of irrelevant results and, before I realised, gone off on a tangent –to which I am very much prone. So Evernote has indeed helped me grow my thinking in an ‘unexpected’ way in the sense that, without it, I would have been ‘expected’ to lose focus or at least a lot of time!
That said, I have now hot a plateau –Evernote has a hard limit of 100,000 notes– so I need to find my next Memex tool…
digeratus wrote:
>So many systems promise this. Have you found it to be true? Which
>software, and can you give an example?