How Should We Take Notes?
Digging into the philosophical roots of the battle between Tiago Forte and Conor White-Sullivan
Jun 26, 2020 · 11 min readUpdated Jan 21, 2026
“The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.” - William James
How should we organize our notes?
It’s the bugbear of almost every productivity nerd, and answers abound: notebooks, tags, stacks, kanbans, links, bi-directional links.
In fact, there are so many answers to this question that people in our little corner of the internet actually fight about how to organize notes.
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