Note-taking is time travel. Don't just write things down to save ideas. Write things down to transport yourself into a long-forgotten emotional state. Whenever you write something down, you rebel against the entropy of memory. Here's my mini-essay.

5:19 PM · Jan 15, 2021

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Even better - show me your notebook.
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“Rebel against the entropy of memory” - cannot get nerdier
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Funny thing for me is that I almost never read the notes, but the process of writing is essential to untangle thoughts.
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Smells and music (time-traveling only to your youth) have the same effect. Any thoughts?
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Writing, in any form, is a time traveling device. Wrote this in an essay about the benefits of thinking on paper a couple of weeks ago. You can read it here: thinkingbat.substack.com/p/t…
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Not only is it a time machine, but also a teleportation machine. An idea originated from one place can travel to the other corner of the world in a minute.
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Feel the same way when I pick up my old journals.
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Interesting idea would be to use emojis to tag your mood as you write your notes.
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This seems to be the whole premise of apps like @RoamResearch @logseq: Networked thought with daily journals for temporal referencing of concepts
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Find your Prague journals: see linked refs to the people you were with, the places you saw, dive down memory lane
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