The Imperfectionist: The life-changing magic of not tidying up:
Impose too much order on your notes, and you eliminate the serendipitous connections that are how ideas arise.
@writingslowly I am not sure if webmentions work, so here is my follow-up: Embrace the messy beauty of note-taking
@frank thanks for your thoughtful response. Your experience echoes mine. I don't always write notes with a single idea. My mind doesn't work like that. I write day-journal-style notes. But then I'll return to extract atomic notes by means of transclusion. To me this is the best of both worlds.