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Nat Eliason: You can delete 99% of your digital notes without consequence
“But what you will probably find is that you can delete 95 to 99% of everything you have in Evernote or Notion or whatever and never feel that pain for the rest of your life.”
Nat Eliason: The software used to store book highlights does not matter
“The medium that I organize those highlights in doesn't seem to matter because I had them in text files at one point, I had them in Evernote, I had them in Notion, I had them in Rome, I had them in back in Notion, right?”
Nat Eliason: Organizing digital notes does not improve writing or happiness
“And I think the false promise that many of us Believe or have bought into or whatever is that if you organize information, you will write better articles. You will make more money. You will be happier. You will get all of these benefits from it, right? And tha…”
Weiss: Intuitive SaaS applications remove the need for data-entry intermediaries
“If you look at the new applications like Box, like Evernote, you know, a lot of these new applications are built for mobile. They're they'll, they're built for kind of a HTML user interface, and they're intuitive in the way that Tom was talking about, like Fac…”