Matthew Guay in “Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good”:

We don’t write things down to remember them. We write them down to forget.

And then there’s the well-known FieldNotes quote:

I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.

Writing down frees our minds. Writing down is also a summarization and interpretation of what we learned, at least as long as it’s not simply copy and paste. Two good reasons in themselves.

Last night I left some unread articles in Elfeed. Reading RSS in Emacs gives me a great fuzzy, geeky feeling. So even if I’m a long time Reeder user, most recently I’ve been using Elfeed more and more. Even more since I have found how to patch a bug that was making it unsable; but I’m getting in the wrong direction.

While in Elfeed, I asked myself: how do I get the link of the current item I’m reading? Bringing up the mode help, I landed my eyes on elfeed-kill-link-url-at-point bound to c. It took me a bit to realize that this was not what I was looking for; still a very useful functionl. What I was looking for is elfeed-show-yank bound to y. I am happy already. Again the thought that “Emacs gives you everything. And more. You just need to keep looking” popped in my mind. And I was ready to move on.