I am a terrible note taker
There. I said it.
While some people struggle to find a system to organise what I can only assume to be an encyclopaedic volume of written materials, you can give me the most streamlined, efficient and lowest friction scheme and I will, within twenty four hours of committing to it, stop using it.
Notebooks, org mode, obsidian, GTD, kettlestan, you name it and I’ve looked at it and thought “ooh, this seems like an excellent idea” and manifestly failed to do anything with it. Which is a shame because my workload (although less than it used to be) is heavy and my skills at procrastination deserve formal recognition.
Regardless of what I commit to, I end up keeping it all in my head or I try to make a mental note of which document or one of the 16000 emails the information is in.
Clearly this is not an Optimal way of living but somehow I am completely incapable of changing this!