How to Keep Your Notes from Becoming a Junk Drawer

Notes are easy to create and hard to trust. Without review, they become storage for anxiety.

Give notes useful titles

A title should tell future you what the note contains: decision, meeting, idea, draft, or reference.

Current project notes should be easy to find. Old notes can be searchable without sitting in the active workspace.

Some notes become tasks. Some become references. Some can be deleted. A note system improves when it sheds weight.