Big notes cleanup

[@KalebPeters99]

"I think I identify as a hypertext library" If that isn't the most *Visa* thing you've ever said 🤣🤣 I heavily relate too, I feel like my scattering of youtube comments, tweets and discord messages actually give the truest picture of my worldview and identity. And I have this frustrating wish that I could beam it all into someones brain before attempting to converse with them. Especially if it's a disagreeable conversation, so many misunderstandings would be avoided if both parties had the proper context...

[@grobolomo2055]

I've come to realize "organizing my notes" is a todo that never goes away, and shouldn't, since it is basically synonymous with thinking/working at all. It is simply the process of refining, but what you are refining is text, which is the universal interface for thought, and you can't work without thinking. This was relieving to realize, because it turned a constant lingering frustration into a recognition that my notes are always going to be disorganized, because otherwise the implication would be that they are perfectly organized, meaning I'm not learning/thinking any new thoughts; nothing new to assimilate, no change or progress.

[@KalebPeters99]

This is a really helpful perspective for me, thank you 🙏

[@grobolomo2055]

reminds me of this clip from elon (paraphrased): "you should take the approach that the constraints/whatever you are given are gauranteed to be to some degree wrong, because the counterpoint would be that they are perfect, which is impossible" -- kzbin.infoUgkxzb4qkssdJz7JSAGY14vNpjsfNoewm3Ve?si=2010d95ooN7LBnoY

[@visakanv]

yup! it's an ongoing process. perfect organization is a kind of death

[@coscorrodrift]

i've been watching a lot of videos of people cleaning hoarder houses and i related to that comment at the end of "how do you know you're not being a hoarder with some kinda disorder" lol i think there's a little bit of both on my life, i think i do keep a lot of stuff , i am "messy" in an obvious way to most ppl who've visited somewhere where i live lol and that i "under review" stuff so i end up not knowing why some things i'm "hoarding" are there in the first place or what i meant for them to evoque; but i also think for some reason (maybe i'm more sensitive or emotional than some ppl in that way - my mom for example is the opposite of me, maybe i have worse memory than other ppl, or i'm more conscious of how it has failed me) objects or text from way back can bring memories that i didn't know or give me a perspective that i'd forgotten until i encountered them and those moments have had an outsized impact on me so i now pay attention to things in my own life that other ppl ignore or discard

[@felixculas4180]

went through 21 twitter bookmarks after watching this (went through = transferred them to scrivener with some commentary on why I think past-me bookmarked them). slowly seeing some patterns in what i tend to bookmark

[@visakanv]

hell yeah!!

[@billlumbergh6294]

Short hair. finally. Like it much better.

[@Wikihan]

What does going through your notes/cleaning them up mean? Do you just throw out what's not interesting anymore or do you aggregate the interesting bits into another note? A secret third thing?

[@visakanv]

both!

[@Wikihan]

@@visakanv When you save old notes, do you tend to save the whole thing, or do you save chunks, as if you'd save quotes?

[@visakanv]

@@Wikihan chunk, edit, rewrite, etc