Anne-Laure Le Cunff writes about note taking as tending a mind garden, as a deliberate practice.
“A mind garden is not a mind backyard. It’s not about dumping notes in there and forgetting about them.”
Ouch. That describes well the bookmarks in my Evernotes. It also, on the flip side chimes with how I treat my blog archives, which I regularly browse seeing new connections between postings. Evernote bookmarks in the backyard, my blogposts in the garden.
I guess it’s alright to have a mind backyard if you do have a mind garden as well 🙂