• against productivity gurus
• maintains unorganized notes
• believes "everything that isn’t writing, revising, or editing is a waste of time"
  • this extends to notetaking
• "People often look at my large collection of books, or see the articles I tweet about, and ask, how do you remember everything you read? And the answer is, I don’t. Remembering is for chumps."

List of arguments:

• notetaking makes you go from remembering only what stays organically to what seems like it might be interesting
• "Getting lost in your knowledge management system is a fantastic way to avoid creating things"
  • same thing applied to books/courses/videos on notetaking systems (the only part that I agree with)
• the majority of interesting writing is off-the-cuff
• distraction by presentation of factual insight (?)
• this stuff doesn't apply to summarizing huge swaths of literature or if the person has "truly bad, unfixable memories"
• author is "waiting for any evidence" that the best thinkers rely on notetaking systems, and thinks those that are taught it "produce unexciting work" (emphasis mine)
• isn't anti-notetaking, but is anti-systems
• avoid useless adoption of the aesthetic

1. Use as few tags as possible.
2. Limit yourself to a self-defined set of tags.
3. Tags within your set must not overlap.
4. By convention, tags are in plural.
5. Tags are lower-case.
6. Tags are single words.
7. Keep tags on a general level.
8. Omit tags that are obvious.

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   And my own addition: never allow a "general" or "misc" tag because everything is "general" or "misc". It just highlights the areas a tagging system is lagging.

A timeline from a person for self-reference of important dates. Topics range from movie releases to major book publishing to technology development.