The goal of a thinking system is not to capture more: it’s to think better. [[Making notes is the easiest part]] is the reminder that the capture step is the least valuable one if nothing happens after it. Notes are useful because writing forces clarity and the archive gives you material to think with later, but the notes themselves aren’t the product. The thinking is. [[Evergreen notes should be atomic]] is the structural condition that makes the archive useful rather than just large: narrow notes can be linked precisely where they’re relevant.
What’s hard is returning to the notes, connecting them, and letting them change how you understand something. [[Non-linear note making]] beats a hierarchical folder system here because connection is where the thinking happens. A large, well-organised collection that never gets connected is filing under better conditions, not thinking.