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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-To: larch@yhetil.org X-Migadu-Country: US ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1652599425; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references:list-id:list-help:list-unsubscribe: list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=NsI7MuBEKSdMbL8ZctGneaubC/PQD2YaRZVfaM8bsQo=; b=gv4aKf68ogK+Ve7ifRePp7TqK1VX52s5i2KLutKPpSYOpUbG3aKRk6taaRlTmHSQQXyEds IIpegLRGWLzE6AsuMI6irF/FSw4+nmNcdAmni06OtaM13SK8ehN15fqYKUR3cUM6S68InH HpUyf9u47viJEKUyNUflGTwQDNZNlVGKplLpSyrhZQyVjBTl5eTm1tXr+/IYljY39fKHbF SRVfq2gQvqh48dLZIXeqMyjctNu6xaJlRtUuY6Qd/GcTSp8aCgTNb7lykmJrCQvPQnEtAA fPgONrYd7XzL5G2bffzDKdv4Pcreoq2t/xHvbN33Ze57zK4se0LiMZswAsALzw== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1652599425; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=j2SUrdwpCJgSSRiQMHoLvq1zUVLmd7MyQb8N7RXDi3Q7EbMs3d/sPirXeIeCNy+N2at99N CB/D81TC5JRgEduO3OybZtulqb0DXg+YZqF5SMtT5wPheJwY6brAUC89nAKlGOtUSBdS3w 94rmIT1d4GmsrAF6AlTO4iI9Dce1URGAun4r14So6mp2lew3cvRVPMMPmPqVLUWoso2ZOh 4Aga23tnrSsld8t/IYGf8OQfXgQAIAnRL67nmKwW3lUR/hPWpEDmVy80jeNw4FSdUxY6An USP5z5nP66G7+PxSl+zHbFRZBnmJHnIRta5+7V1qrV+7Go58RZBo0REIyRS4fA== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=NfFWzH0B; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -5.33 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20210112 header.b=NfFWzH0B; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 27D531CD60 X-Spam-Score: -5.33 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: XD/E8jLlVxV0 Tim Cross writes: > I've also learnt to be quite ruthless in making decisions about what to > archive and what to simply delete. This is possibly the hardest > behaviour to learn. In a digital age, it is way too easy to keep > everything. However, this has a hidden cost - the quality of material > degrades and results from searching etc become less productive because > there is too much 'noise' in your data. Data, like many other things, > degrades over time. It is important to learn how to recognise when > things have passed their 'use by date' and just get rid of them. > > I'm often stunned by people who boast about the fact they still have all > their emails boing back to 1990 and are somewhat proud about having an > email archive with over 50Gb of messages. Reality is, the vast majority > of those email messages will never be read again and are of little or no > actual value. > > Knowing when to just delete old data is almost as important as gathering > it, but a much harder skill to master. I disagree about this. Sometimes, you may find yourself in a situation when you remember some link/idea because it suddenly become relevant to what you are doing now, though it looked interesting but irrelevant in the past. Then, you may try to find that link and there will be nothing to find if you deleted it. So, I prefer to keep things that caught my attention in the past saved somewhere in searchable location. On the other hand, it is not very useful to keep every single saved link in "active" search location. In daily workflows, the things you search for usually belong to the currently active areas and search results must not be polluted by links you discarded years back. So, I maintain the main notes file with the important links I search relatively regularly; and an archive where the notes/links are not searchable by default, but can be searched any time I wish so (e.g. see org-agenda-archive-mode). The archive is just like having a backup. It is usually useless until you suddenly need it. Best, Ihor