• instead of becoming a purpose in itself
• this seems related to:
  • trying to solve something, by only thinking about that thing, instead of gathering related material, prior art, etc...
  • trying to come up with ideas by thinking harder
  • building a todo-system instead of focusing on making projects, and noticing what is needed to build that system
  • even more generally, trying to build a tool, instead of doing the actual thing, and realising that a tool is missing
  • Thinking About Thinking Requires Something to Think About - notes should about something otherwise they are only Fixating on Solution Aesthetics, which can Lead to Solving Wrong Problems

My goal is: "I want to produce novel, powerful ideas." A computer-supported thinking system is helpful insofar as it supports that. But it's hard to evaluate those systems empirically because such ideas are rare. People who blog about note-taking systems don't produce them.

— Andy Matuschak - https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1247604704013512705