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Why we compulsively save thoughts we never revisit

My notes app has 847 entries of random thoughts and ideas but I never look at them again and now my phone storage is full of my own forgotten mind.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to capture every fleeting thought creates a digital graveyard of unused intentions, mistaking accumulation for wisdom.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Writing and the externalization of memory?”

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