The Fear of Forgetting
When I look at the number, it seems ridiculous: 339 notes in 11 different notebooks.
Those are the statistics of my account on the digital note taking platform Evernote. Over 100 of those notes are recipes, half of which I’ve never made. Nearly 30 are for the business I owned. There are 47 in a folder just called “Randomness.”
It is all some iteration of trying to remember prompted by a deep fear of forgetting.
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