Comment by yawnxyz
8 hours ago
yes and no;
I "hoard" ideas and articles because it's a good way for me to offload them from my brain
As a designer, I absolutely DO scroll through my swipe files once in a while to get inspiration; sometimes I'll also go through saved github repos to borrow an implementation
E.g. that's how I ended up using a lot of libraries like Immer, Svelte, ended up loving Observable / d3js, etc.
Idk about all y'all, but notes are absolutely useful for me.
Totally agree — “notes as offloading” is real, and for design/dev work swipe files are legitimately high ROI (inspo + implementation references).
Concerns isn’t trying to turn everything into more notes. The premise is: most useful context already exists in lots of places (articles, emails, posts, links, repos), and forcing all of it into a single note system is extra work. I’m exploring a connector approach where those sources can stay where they are, and the system only surfaces/reconnects the right items when they’re relevant to an active project — without you having to rewrite them as notes.
Curious: for your workflow, what’s the most valuable “resurface moment” — when starting a new project, when you’re stuck mid-way, or during review/polish?