![]() It can sabotage your work sessions years into the future. Even years later, Evernote still manages to punch me in the gut when I open an old note that hasn’t been reformatted. ![]() If you haven’t experienced the pain of transferring your notes out of a proprietary format, please learn from people like me who have. I’m still uncovering old notes that break my flow because they need to be reformatted. It was like the line from Hotel California, “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”Įventually, I figured out a way to export to plain text, and it BROKE. My valuable ideas, my personal thoughts…they were trapped in a proprietary format that Evernote used (and possibly sold to third parties). And that’s when I fully understood that my notes were trapped. The happiness I used to feel using my digital note library was experiencing “death by a thousand cuts.” And when you have tons of valuable thoughts locked away in an environment you don’t want to enter - you start feeling the effects of “ digital dementia.” Just the thought of opening it created surprising amounts of anxiety. my digital library was filling up with garbage.Īfter 5 years, opening Evernote was no longer fun. Little did I know that my habit of saving articles was - over time - increasing the NOISE and decreasing the SIGNAL. Yes, we shape our tools, but in turn, our tools shape us. While those articles felt important at the time, they almost always led to nothing. This made it harder to search for *my* thoughts. As I clipped more articles, the ratio of my own words and thoughts decreased. The problem was that my library was becoming less of my library. A hidden cancer was growing - and I was feeling it more everyday. It worked, but secretly, the health of my digital note system was failing. ![]() That’s when I developed a basic system of using “Maps”, which were just “ notes with links to other notes.” (I didn’t call them MOCs then, but that’s basically what they were.) It was clunky, but I made these Map Notes for my boxing business, for producing the indie films, and a myriad of other things. I also used it extensively to help act in and produce two indie feature films, along with a bunch of other typical uses like writing, tracking, and journaling.īut as my digital note library grew, I had more difficulty finding notes. I used Evernote to grow, develop, and manage a fitness boxing business - expanding it in the US, Scandinavia, and Saudi Arabia. That’s a good thing, right? Well, it was…for the first few years. I could also “clip” web articles effortlessly. Finally, I could create notes as quickly as I could think of them. Before that was Microsoft Word, so Evernote offered a major difference. Some of you know me for creating the IMF Kit (soon to be the vastly updated LYT Kit), but I wanted to share the story behind it - plus I have some news :) Fast notes
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