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balder1991

I’ve been recently using a notes app for gathering information that is somewhat structured, but I realized sometimes I need something for temporary messy stuff, and it does help a lot.

Now I’m thinking maybe the ideal is to have at least two types of notes:

* The messy more ephemeral stuff you’ll probably delete later.

* The more structured and summarized stuff you’ll review from time to time and adapt to your latest understanding of it.

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If only there was something that you could speak or write notes into that structured them for you.

You help your memory when you structure it yourself

This is very true. And it seems to work even better when done by hand instead of typed or cut and pasted.

Not everyone can afford personal assistants.

I agree. I was (poorly) hinting at the desire for a product that would act as such.

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