Keep everything you loosely capture structured with nested tags

It's important that you have a system to capture things quickly and get them out of your head, so that they don't clog your thought process. The problem? The data is either unstructured or you first need to spend time thinking where exactly to put it so you will find it later.

I found the best way to do this is to keep a daily note or journal where you can first dump all your thoughts, ideas, tasks, etc. quickly without thinking about where to put it. The other game changer was using nested tags. Adding tags is easy, because it doesn't break your workflow, you just keep writing. Example: "- Review landing page copy @followup/James".

NotePlan just introduced new features to help you do exactly that: Nested Tags and a Global Search across all your notes (calendar, non-calendar, tasks, etc.). Nested Tags allow you to create a reference to any thoughts, tasks, notes etc. right away. Additionally you can capture new things in a daily note, so you don't even have to ask yourself where exactly to write them down.

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