It took me a while to realize that the software lesson of doing a migration by working against a good, consistent interface applies also to migrating one's workflows:https://www.natemeyvis.com/writing/backward-compatible-improvements/ …
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Which for me is all the more reason to have project- / context-sensitive capture methods. That "catch-all" / default category, divorced from anything I've been thinking about in a sustained way already, is just very unlikely to capture anything profound. [4/N]
And, more relevantly, the *marginal* captured catch-all note, the fleeting miscellaneous thing that I'd only capture if it were really easy to do so, and *wouldn't somehow come back* if I didn't... for me, losing that isn't a bad thing. [5/N]
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I don't doubt that other people have much better random thoughts than I do! If you're one of them, I wish you luck. Also, remember that your phone probably has an excellent dictation engine, for those longer random thoughts. Thanks for the question! [6/6]
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Thanks for the detailed response! Now that I think about it more, I have a tendency to compose writing passages in my head while I'm doing something else. Sometimes I remember them, sometimes I don't.
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