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Captured thoughts that are never reviewed are effectively still lost. The capture habit preserves raw material; the review habit transforms it into usable knowledge. Without review, your capture system becomes a graveyard of good intentions.
Processing means deciding what to do with each item — organizing is a later step. Conflating the two creates systems that look tidy but never get worked.
If processing an item takes less than two minutes, do it immediately — deferring it costs more than completing it.
A weekly review catches anything your daily capture missed — it is the redundancy layer that keeps your entire epistemic system trustworthy.
When everything important is externalized — every decision, reasoning chain, emotion, goal, assumption, commitment, priority, mental model, blocker, energy pattern, learning, feedback signal, failure, progress marker, thinking condition, and system design — you gain complete cognitive freedom. The mind that holds nothing becomes the mind that can do anything.