The Lifetime of Notes

Notes are the snapshot of a thought in a specific point in time, what we knew until this point made us write something instead of something else.

We might have changed our minds since we wrote a note, or we might in the future by reading a new (or old) book, by having a conversation with a person owning a different point of view.

I find this interesting and I think It's worth updating notes as we go along, without removing what has been written before.

Writing is a though process for me, I like how it helps me take something very amorphous and turn it into something very concrete, the real difference is that I can start watching a though in a more objective way.

I tend to write notes in a very random moments and stop thinking about them for a while.

When my mind goes back to something I wrote already, if I wrote about it in the past I tend to create a new note and sometimes link the old one, I don't just update the old note, maybe because I like the idea of keeping the metadata of the notes true, like the date of creation, the tags, etc but also to preserve it’s original meaning in a specific point in time

• From a draft of 20 Aug 2024