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My latest solution to this problem (which I am quite happy with) is the following: 1. Every day/week I go through recently added someday staff and look if it still looks useful. For ideas, I just check if they still make sense and for links, I open each link and skim through the abstract and sometimes link text in more details. When I first did the above, I was surprised that 50-80% of captured staff is just gone because it is not as interesting as it looked initially. 2. The ideas/links I mark for some day in future are scheduled using org-learn. They will appear again in my agenda a few days later and I can re-assess them. If still looks interesting, but someday not now - reschedule using org-learn utilising spaced repetition. Otherwise - archive. With the above approach, I only see "not sure" ideas days->weeks->years later. Only several times a year. More useful ideas remind about themselves more frequently and I often end up actually using them. Credit of this idea: https://www.getdnote.com/blog/how-i-built-personal-knowledge-base-for-myself/ The total time needed to do the described is surprisingly small, especially with the ability to do bulk agenda operations to postpone all the maybe staff when you have no time/energy/mental power. Best, Ihor