You remember having this flash of insight two weeks ago, and you remember you wrote it down somewhere. You are now looking for it. Is it in your Apple Notes? Evernote? Notion? A physical notepad? Email?

Writing-is-a-way-to-record-thought-through-language. If we record thoughts in various different places, it becomes notoriously hard to find them again. To use Notes-as-a-lifelong-thinking-partner we need to be able to easily find, reach, read, search them.

All notes should be in a single place. Some ways to achieve that:

• Use-plain-text-files-for-note-taking
• Keep-all-notes-in-a-single-folder