@unpublished{matlaStopProcrastinatingNotetaking2022,
  title = {Stop Procrastinating with Note-Taking Apps like {{Obsidian}}, {{Roam}}, {{Logseq}}},
  author = {Matla, Sam},
  date = {2022-12-14},
  url = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baKCC2uTbRc},
  urldate = {2023-01-14},
  file = {/home/dominikh/notes/pdfs/matlaStopProcrastinatingNotetaking2022.webm}
}

• note taking can be a form of procrastination
• trying to find the “perfect tool”, spending time on tweaking, switching tools etc, without actually doing useful work
  • chasing superhuman productivity
• coming up with complex processes makes us feel smart
• collecting references, bookmarks etc feels rewarding in and of itself, even without making use of them
  • Matla calls it the “collector’s fallacy”; this term seems to originate in the note-taking community
• considering note taking “work” makes us feel like we’ve been productive when we haven’t
• doing work with no notes is better than doing no work with notes
• notes are a tool, not a prerequisite
• doing the actual work spawns ideas we’ll not have considered just by taking notes
• trust your brain and organic creation of insights
  • insights will come to us when doing other things, we don’t have to be staring at our notes all the time
• take project-based notes, not notes on arbitrary things
• separate taking notes and structuring/organizing them