#+title: Future-proofing your notes is only worth if the future is relevant
#+date: "2021-04-07 18:53:58 +08:00"
#+date_modified: "2021-05-02 16:36:05 +08:00"
#+language: en


At some point, your notes will be a gigantic mess.
Even if you [[file:2020-04-15-20-41-51.org][Add a desktop search engine for your digital library]] and know the structure, it's not always worth with the overwhelming pile that will accumulate further since you always navigate certain notes through a fixed path.
Similar to certain software projects like Xorg, Rust language, magit, and org-roam, there will be a point where you have to redesign them.
[fn:: Xorg has Wayland as the successor, the Rust community can revise the language freely through editions, magit did have a crownfunding campaign to pay the developer to rewrite it for a year, and org-roam is recently through a major redesign.]
You have to assign a garbage day at some point.

Future-proofing your notes creates pressure on managing your note-taking seriously and efficiently.
You don't want to take notes haphazardly and the overall notes structure will stay the same throughout a year.
They should eventually evolve into [[file:2020-05-07-21-53-21.org][Evergreen notes]], branching out of the original notes structure and making a better graph for navigation.

An alternative to trashing your notes is to [[file:2020-06-25-12-37-23.org][Create a writing inbox to store your thoughts]].