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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: Most personal knowledge management features are false-productivity distractions
“Well, yes, I think it's really the searching, the indexing and the collecting that are very helpful, but pretty much all of the other features are often like get in the way or become distractions or give you this sense of productivity, 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…”
Nat Eliason: 99.9% of the best books were written without writing software
“You know, I make this analogy all the time that 99.9% of the best books ever written were written on a typewriter or by hand. Like, if you think that you need a good writing app to write your book, you're just wrong. Like, it, it's just not true.”
Nat Eliason: The next big utility is AI-embedded note-taking tools
“I really think the next big utility is going to be a note taking tool that offers custom GPT or whatever embeds as a service. For your knowledge graph.”