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Capture-before-organize pattern: the recurring tendency for

Capture-before-organize pattern: the recurring tendency for people to merge capture and organization into a single step, which creates friction that kills the capture habit, whereas separating them into distinct operations preserves both

Why This Is a Pattern

Exemplifies Open-Loop Cognitive Cost (Zeigarnik) (unresolved items consume working memory) and Extended Cognition Thesis (externalization transforms cognition). Recurring pattern visible across note-taking, GTD, journaling contexts.

Source Lessons

L-0007

First capture, then organize

Capture and organization are separate cognitive operations. Merging them creates friction that kills both: you lose the thought while searching for where to put it.

Connections

Exemplifies (2)

AxiomOpen-Loop Cognitive Cost (Zeigarnik)AxiomExtended Cognition Thesis

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