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#+title: Create an inbox to store your thoughts
#+date: "2020-06-25 12:37:23 +08:00"
#+date_modified: "2021-07-05 13:40:18 +08:00"
#+language: en


While our brain is good at storing ideas, it has other things to worry about such as the random thoughts passing by each day, context switching from one task to another, and generating new ideas.
A lot of the newer thoughts have more chance to be gone in a few hours.
For this, you want to make a dedicated repository.

- The important random thoughts and the generated ideas can then be revisited for future ideas.
- Tasks can then be tracked, reminding what and/or when to be done.

Like our emails, our writing inbox should be cleaned up each time we visit our inbox.
Not all of them are going to be important so feel free to remove entries that are not in need.

If you want to store an idea for an indefinite future (e.g., a project idea, future hobbies) that you cannot surely do now, you can then create a dedicated inbox.
In practice, this is great as a starter point for [[id:3d1c0313-fa3d-4b18-b435-51d3837e3e2c][Fleeting notes]] or a reading list to [[id:66337935-420c-40e6-81a6-f74ab0965ed5][Maintain your own digital library]].

Beware, this [[id:1bdbdcfa-98f9-4d08-a0dc-ad2f1b9b9ec9][Advice shouldn't be taken literally]].
Not all thoughts are worthy of being noted, the same principle how some thoughts are not worthy to stay in your list.
Don't get into the business of unnecessary note-taking of jotting every thoughts as [[id:b62c61f1-ee12-4bd9-b59a-ec6eafe29f38][Unnecessary optimizations cripple progress]].
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Update PIM notes Hmmm... I can't seem to escape to take notes abou note-taking. But then again, note-taking is a form of PIM. 2021-05-07 04:08:40 +00:00			`#+title: Create an inbox to store your thoughts`
Update the files for convention Apparently, the convention (at least starting from 2018) is to make the keywords and block names to be in lowercase as stated from one of the following discussions at https://orgmode.org/list/87tuuw3n15.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr/. The files was updated with a one liner of shell. However, this is Emacs and org-mode does have an API to let you do stuff in your config and interact with the documents internally so it is not an elegant solution in any way. 2021-04-01 16:08:15 +00:00			`#+date: "2020-06-25 12:37:23 +08:00"`
Make notes on creativity and ideas With updates on how it relates on note-taking (among other things). Since I have note-taking notes, that's the only thing to relate to right now but there is a lot of untouched thoughts on other things such as programming and illustration generally how inspirations and innovations came from already existing things. That's how successors are generally made but that goes for another writing session. 2021-07-05 05:44:50 +00:00			`#+date_modified: "2021-07-05 13:40:18 +08:00"`
Update the files for convention Apparently, the convention (at least starting from 2018) is to make the keywords and block names to be in lowercase as stated from one of the following discussions at https://orgmode.org/list/87tuuw3n15.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr/. The files was updated with a one liner of shell. However, this is Emacs and org-mode does have an API to let you do stuff in your config and interact with the documents internally so it is not an elegant solution in any way. 2021-04-01 16:08:15 +00:00			`#+language: en`
Update wiki as of 2020-07-06 2020-07-06 15:32:10 +00:00

Update notes about notes The review for note-related topics is going to be reduced from this point because it's time to dedicate this month for learning a new skill to put this in use. 2021-05-05 16:55:04 +00:00			`While our brain is good at storing ideas, it has other things to worry about such as the random thoughts passing by each day, context switching from one task to another, and generating new ideas.`
			`A lot of the newer thoughts have more chance to be gone in a few hours.`
			`For this, you want to make a dedicated repository.`

			`- The important random thoughts and the generated ideas can then be revisited for future ideas.`
			`- Tasks can then be tracked, reminding what and/or when to be done.`
Update wiki as of 2020-07-06 2020-07-06 15:32:10 +00:00
			`Like our emails, our writing inbox should be cleaned up each time we visit our inbox.`
Update Zettelkasten-related note 2021-04-23 17:30:29 +00:00			`Not all of them are going to be important so feel free to remove entries that are not in need.`
Update PIM notes Hmmm... I can't seem to escape to take notes abou note-taking. But then again, note-taking is a form of PIM. 2021-05-07 04:08:40 +00:00
Update Zettelkasten-related note 2021-04-23 17:30:29 +00:00			`If you want to store an idea for an indefinite future (e.g., a project idea, future hobbies) that you cannot surely do now, you can then create a dedicated inbox.`
Start writing evergreen notes from metalearning Specifically, from the "Learning how to learn" course. 2021-05-08 16:28:30 +00:00			`In practice, this is great as a starter point for [[id:3d1c0313-fa3d-4b18-b435-51d3837e3e2c][Fleeting notes]] or a reading list to [[id:66337935-420c-40e6-81a6-f74ab0965ed5][Maintain your own digital library]].`
Make notes on creativity and ideas With updates on how it relates on note-taking (among other things). Since I have note-taking notes, that's the only thing to relate to right now but there is a lot of untouched thoughts on other things such as programming and illustration generally how inspirations and innovations came from already existing things. That's how successors are generally made but that goes for another writing session. 2021-07-05 05:44:50 +00:00
			`Beware, this [[id:1bdbdcfa-98f9-4d08-a0dc-ad2f1b9b9ec9][Advice shouldn't be taken literally]].`
			`Not all thoughts are worthy of being noted, the same principle how some thoughts are not worthy to stay in your list.`
			`Don't get into the business of unnecessary note-taking of jotting every thoughts as [[id:b62c61f1-ee12-4bd9-b59a-ec6eafe29f38][Unnecessary optimizations cripple progress]].`