Pros And Cons Of The Archive
202207051453 Pros:
- Flat structure — This makes it simple to see a list of notes, and to better view the context between notes
- Built around search — Search is the main way that I can reflect and discover notes after the fact (keeping in mind that I want to be more like an author, not a writer 202204101911). Cons:
- It’s not the best as a knowledge repository, I’ve found. (#update 12-27-22: This is what the author of Unbundling Tools for Thought 202212271346 suggested a SQLite type database with a schema 202207051412 is better for). Maybe something like Craft or Notion is better for that, where it’s less important to be able to quickly create new articles and instead, be able to reorganize/restructure/view high-level documents easily. Although to be fair, I haven’t found something like this that works for me for Airtable either. It’s worth considering just using Google docs / whatever the document structure provided by the company is for this instead of my own solution. (Although Jayden uses Dynalist and it seems to work well for him. Hmm). I think my issue is that I wasn’t using links enough, and moving concrete ideas into their notes.
- This links to the previous con, but the fact that it requires so much engineering means that there is an entry bar that makes it so that it’s not very simple to do “basic” tasks like move documents around and such.
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