A note written to be finished is less useful than one written to be returned to. Treating a note as a record means stopping at capture, and the archive becomes static in exactly the way [[Making notes is the easiest part]] describes as the default failure. The compounding happens in revision: when you come back six months later and the note surprises you, disagrees with you, or needs updating, that friction is the system working. [[Evergreen notes should be atomic]] is what makes revision possible: a narrow note can be meaningfully updated rather than just expanded.
A note that never changes probably isn’t being used. Building the habit of returning matters as much as the habit of capturing. [[Better thinking over better note-taking]] only becomes real when the notes are being thought with rather than filed away, and [[Non-linear note making]] is what makes returning feel like discovery rather than maintenance.