As much as we may dream that we can automate everything in our lives, you need a bit of friction. This helps generate thought and ideas, ensuring you slow-down-to-pay-attention.

A key example is the-friction-of-handwriting-is-the-point, where writing things by hand is slower, but it forces you to pay attention to the words. Similarly, a Zettlekasten works by being a bit more effort than writing a quick note to yourself, making you think about what you are writing

References

• Austin-Kleon explores this in Keep-Going-Austin-Kleon-2019, where he says Tidying-is-exploratory
• The-bullet-journal-method-by-Ryder-Carroll-2018 says this is why writing the same tasks day after day is useful - it forces you to Choose-What-is-Important