🤔 What Should I Actually Note?

This is the question we get asked the most.

Our answer might sound counter-intuitive: don't think about it — just start noting.

Why "What Should I Note" Is the Wrong Question

Taking notes shouldn't be a chore. The hard part is the hesitation before you start:

Which tool? Should I categorize? Where to save it? Will I have trouble finding it later? What does long-term recording actually give me?

The moment those thoughts surface, half of that fresh inspiration has already run off.

So instead of agonizing over a standard, set one simple rule: the moment you think "this is worth keeping," write it down.

Three Types of Things Most Worth Noting

1. A thought that flashes by

A revelation while walking, an idea before bed, a sudden solution during a meeting.

They come fast, and they go even faster.

2. Your own judgment, not someone else's content

Clipping an article is easy, but that article is searchable by anyone.

What's truly scarce is: those few honest thoughts of your own after you've read it.

Saving isn't owning. Real ownership is knowing when you'll be able to use it.

3. Emotions and indecision

Why you're anxious, what you're hesitating about, the thing you say doesn't matter but you clearly care about deeply.

These "useless" records are exactly the material Deep Insight most needs.

What the AI era lacks has never been knowledge. What's truly scarce is the context about yourself.

One Test

If you really want a standard, use this one:

Three months from now, will this note still bring me back to the scene?

If yes, write it down.

On "Recording but Never Reading"

Our generation is actually pretty good at recording. We're like diligent squirrels, moving every thought, every sound, every sight, one by one, into the tree hollow.

But the hollow keeps getting fuller, and we open it less and less.

Those notes lie inside, like letters we wrote to ourselves, never opened.

So "recording but never reading" is real. The fix isn't to record less, it's to:

• Run a Deep Insight regularly, and let the AI connect your hundreds of notes into a constellation;
• Or just occasionally search a keyword and bump into your past self.

Finally

Recording isn't for archiving — it's for seeing the trail of your own thinking. So that at some future moment, it can catch the version of you who needs an answer.

Over a lifetime, a person has hundreds of thousands of thoughts. Most vanish; only a tiny fraction ever gets written down.

And the ones that do get written down may end up changing you, changing the world, changing a great many things.