March 1, 2022
I bounce around productivity apps, and I donāt like that.
I bounce from Notion to Craft to Goodnotes to Obsidian to something-I-built-myself and back again. I canāt stick to one thing.
My notes are fragmented across apps. Things arenāt all in one place. I donāt have the mythical āsecond brainā app where every thought Iāve ever had is written down and searchable.
It feels like I want my identity to be attached to one app. That I use one app, and itās my go-to. A piece of my identity. Itās really similar to how my brain wants ādefault stacksā.
But I think that I have to accept that that just wonāt happen for me. I enjoy testing out new stuff too much; a shiny new app comes around, or I just want the features back from an app I used to use, so I switch.
And at the end of the day, it doesnāt really matter! I feel like it matters that my notes are all located in the same app, but Iāve also never had an issue remembering which app I was using when I took those notes. Itās a problem that Iāve never actually had. For some reason, my memory for āwhere did I take these notesā seems quite strong.
So at the end of the day, maybe my āidentityā (for myself, in my own brain) is jumping around from app to app when I feel like I want to. Iāll keep doing that. It makes me happy.