Comment by non-cotton

This conversation plays out every time the topic of taking notes comes up, especially if roam research and friends are involved. It's "the Dropbox thing", but instead of being too cool and smart and skeptical to buy into a new storage service, it's the written word, one of the cornerstones of human civilization.

Having things written down is a good idea. The big pile of notes you no longer care about doesn't matter. The value is in the small fraction of things you do end up wanting to come back to. Good luck figuring out which is which ahead-of-time. Writing down things that you think might be useful is so easy, and the cost is negligible.

The notion that writing is mostly useful as a memory aid seems like a totally misguided "both-sides" synthesis. Having things written down is actually just a good idea.