The Rabbit Hole of Perfect Apps

 You know how it goes. First, you stumble upon an idea somewhere on the internet. Then you start exploring it, trying to learn more about it. And before you know it, you're falling down a rabbit hole, going deeper and deeper until you finally snap out of it and wonder what just happened.

I sometimes browse the discovery feeds on write.as or bearblog.dev looking for interesting blogs. I enjoy it. One day, I came across a blog post that mentioned Zettelkasten. The post praised this note-taking system so much that I was genuinely impressed. And that's when it started. I went on a YouTube binge, watching video after video about Zettelkasten. In my quest to find the perfect Zettelkasten app, I must have tried dozens of apps.

Then one day, it hit me. I don't even take that many notes. So why am I doing all this? I realized I wasn't actually looking for the perfect note-taking app. I was just enjoying the process of trying out new apps. Kind of like how a child gets excited about new toys, I had become excited about new apps.

Maybe when we grow up, we develop this mindset that we need to be doing something, something good, something important. You know, big important things that adults are supposed to do. That kind of work. And somehow, trying out new apps was giving me that sense of fulfillment, that feeling of doing something productive.

But here's the thing. I don't take notes. I journal.

For notes, Google Keep is more than enough, at least for me. And I do my journaling on Apple Journal. I don't journal because I think I'll refer back to it someday. I journal because the act of writing gives me clarity in that moment. I journal for that clarity, and sometimes those journal entries become my blog posts.

I only take notes for things I'll definitely need to refer to later, like my monthly electricity readings.

That's it. No elaborate system. No perfect app. Just simple tools that work for what I actually need, not what I think I should need.