I do get the disillusions with building up huge amounts of structured data and finding it's not "worth it".
I've been pretty happy with paper notes on this front because you can quickly give up on structure and write things as fragments. You'll "know" it's there, and end up finding it eventually.
I think if you're using something like Notion or Roam, trying to keep stuff pretty flat (Search function exists!) is very helpful, as it lowers the cost of writing things down and means you don't get as burnt out.
"Old notes are worthless" is like... pretty glib though. I actually look back at notes relatively often! But it's often not a structured activity, so it's hard to say the notes are part of some generalized process. But there is a liberation in deleting some older notes, just like there is in deleting older projects.
I've been pretty happy with paper notes on this front because you can quickly give up on structure and write things as fragments. You'll "know" it's there, and end up finding it eventually.
I think if you're using something like Notion or Roam, trying to keep stuff pretty flat (Search function exists!) is very helpful, as it lowers the cost of writing things down and means you don't get as burnt out.
"Old notes are worthless" is like... pretty glib though. I actually look back at notes relatively often! But it's often not a structured activity, so it's hard to say the notes are part of some generalized process. But there is a liberation in deleting some older notes, just like there is in deleting older projects.