The idea that collecting things may be more wasteful because you’re collecting for the sake of collecting. You’re not actually doing anything with it, so it ends up being dead storage.

An argument against commonplace books or resonance calendar?

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I still collect ideas and tasks in an inbox file and need to delete things from years ago because I never get around to properly emptying it every now and then; ==it doesn’t feel good to delete, because I assume that I’ll lose potentially valuable things. But the potential is never realized.== Still feels tough.)